Christian Witness Ministries (CWM) is a non-denominational church affiliation founded by the former National General Secretary of the Assemblies of God in Australia

Assemblies of God in Australia

Australian Christian Churches , also known as Assemblies of God in Australia , is a Pentecostal Christian denomination and the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world...

, Philip Powell

Philip Powell

Philip Powell may refer to:*Blessed Philip Powell , Welsh-born Roman Catholic priest and martyr*Sir Philip Powell , British architect*Philip Wayne Powell , American historian...

. CWM publishes a quarterly newsletter, Contending Earnestly for The Faith (CETF), to which numerous authors from many denominations contribute, including Dave Hunt

Dave Hunt

Dave Hunt is a Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He has been in full-time ministry since 1973. The , which highlights Dave's materials, was started in 1992...

, Bill Randles, Peter Stokes, Jacob Prasch, Justin Peters and Aeron Morgan. CWM also runs a bookshop and holds a yearly bible conference with the same authors. CWM is a watchdog discernment

Discernment

Discernment is a term used to describe the activity of determining the value and quality of a certain subject or event. Typically, it is used to describe the activity of going past the mere perception of something, to making detailed judgments about that thing...

 ministry.

History

Philip Powell left the Australian Assemblies of God

Assemblies of God

The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination...

, believing that the church was preaching false doctrines and supporting false prophets and teachers. After his departure from the AOG, Powell became associated with others who have come to similar conclusions and to form Christian Witness Ministries.

CWM has made a stand against Australian Assemblies of God pastor Frank Houston

Frank Houston

Frank Houston , was a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and Australia....

, the father of Hillsong Church's Brian Houston

Brian Houston (pastor)

Brian Houston is a pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. He is currently the Senior Pastor at Hillsong Church which has locations in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, London, Cape Town, Kiev, Germany, Paris, Moscow, Stockholm and New York City. He was also the National President of Australian...

. CWM is also a major critic of Hillsong Church

Hillsong Church

Hillsong Church is a Pentecostal megachurch affiliated with Australian Christian Churches and located in Sydney, Australia. The church's senior pastors, Brian and Bobbie Houston, began the church in 1983 as the Hills Christian Life Centre in Baulkham Hills...

. CWM is mentioned in Tanya Levin's controversial book about Hillsong, People in Glass Houses. CWM has made stands against the Toronto Blessing

Toronto Blessing

The Toronto blessing, a term coined by British churches, describes the revival and resulting phenomena that began in January 1994 at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church, now the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship , a neocharismatic evangelical Christian church located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

 and the Pensacola outpouring, also known as the laughing spirit.

External links

• CWM official website
• Philip Powell's website
• Latest articles from CWM
• "God's Millionaires" Business Review Weekly Magazine, 26 May 2005, by Adele Ferguson