Jesus Is Our Shield Worldwide Ministries

• Jesus Is Our Shield Worldwide Ministries
• Host the radio, cable and TV Program: Oras ng himala (Miracle Hour)
• Founder and spiritual director:  Apostle Renato D. Carillo
• Origin: From the backstreets of the Philippines, now reaching several nations

• Teaching emphasis: God's Endtime Apostolic Revival: Revival Unto Perfection-Living likes Jesus in the Body of Christ

On the question: Why Am I an Apostle? He summarized his answer in the following (unedited) outline:   

• Because God has chosen me. (1 Samuel 16:3,2; Acts 9:15; 26:16-18)  
• I Have the Spirit of an Apostle.
• I Have the Experience.
• I Have the Call. (Galatians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:1)
• I Have the MANDATE.
• God said to me: "Son, build Me a True Church. Teach My people to love Me, serve Me, worship Me and obey Me. Teach them to live like Me, And present a perfect Church to Me in My coming."
• I Have the MANTLE.
• I Have the "Father's Heart". (1 Corinthians 4:14-16; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Galatians 4:19)
• I Love the Church with the same Love that Jesus has.
• I Love God so much.
• I Love the will of God and I will finish it.

The words highlighted in blue are questionable, since it refers to heretical claim.

Take a careful look at this excerpt from Jesus Is Our Shield Worldwide Ministries website "entitled, The Rewards of Living like Jesus"

 The words highlighted in blue are questionable, since it refers to heretical claim

On the question: "WHY I AM THE FATHER OF APOSTOLIC REVIVAL?" Renato D. Carillo says, I will answer based on the revelation and experienced God gave to me, (The following is unedited excerpt).

Sometime in June of 1988, while I was praying, the Lord came to my room and asked me saying: "Son, what do you want in your life? Do you want promotions, a worldwide ministry, TV ministry? Do you want to become famous or to be known?" And I answered Him crying, "Lord, what I want is You, Your perfect will and to be like You." The Lord replied and gave me this mandate and said, "SON, BUILD ME A TRUE CHURCH. TEACH MY PEOPLE TO LOVE ME, SERVE ME, WORSHIP ME AND OBEY ME. TEACH THEM TO LIVE LIKE ME AND PRESENT A PERFECT CHURCH TO ME IN MY COMING."

A Church cannot be considered A TRUE CHURCH without the ministry of an apostle. He was primarily appointed with a specific task, to bring the church unto perfection and to father the church (1 Corinthians 4:15-16). For apostles don't only have a servant's heart or a shepherd's heart but also a Father's heart (1 Thessalonians 2:8-11-12). THE CHURCH TODAY NEEDS REVIVAL! APOSTOLIC REVIVAL, Revival Unto Perfection, Living Like Jesus, the greatest Revival of all times, far greater than any revival that ever took place in the church, all over the world in the past years, centuries and history.

For what God is doing is always greater than what he had done in the past. I am not taking the position of God, but it is God who gave me this title as an "Apostle", that is why I have this title, "The Father of Apostolic Revival." And the church who will experience this revival will have the unlimited fire, power and glory of God that will make the devil and demons in hell tremble! It is the apostle who will present the church in the rapture.

GOD IDENTIFIES HIMSELF WITH HIS SERVANTS. He himself testifies for them to bring His plan into accomplishment through them. It is always God's principle to use a man and give His name or His title to whom He chooses to bring His plan into fulfillment. God gave Abraham the title, "FATHER OF MANY NATIONS", in order for the people to know that God was with Abraham, His servant. It pleased God not only to give Abraham His title, although He owns every nations of the world, BUT ALSO TO GIVE HIS LIFE, HIS CHARACTER, HIS PRESENCE AND HIS POWER to carry out the task.

Likewise, God used Noah to build the Ark and named it after him, "NOAH'S ARK." The fact that God owns the Ark, the plan, pattern, design, and materials in building the Ark all came from God, yet He did not say that it shall be named after Him and called it "GOD'S ARK." Moses, also had been chosen by God to build the Tabernacle for Him and called it "TABERNACLE OF MOSES." God has all the rights to give His title to anyone whom He chooses. The same with David, the city of Jerusalem was known as the "CITY OF DAVID", because it was David whom God used to restore Jerusalem when he reigned as king. So with "SOLOMON'S TEMPLE" which King Solomon had built.

It was God who gave all the specific structure for the temple. God's people recognized and respected Solomon because they knew that it was God who ordained him to build it. Joseph, son of Jacob, was called "ZAPHENATH-PANEAH", which is interpreted as the "PRESERVER OF LIFE" because God gave him the grace to feed the world in the midst of a worldwide crisis. In the New Testament, apostle Paul claimed his written epistles to be his gospel, because it was through him that the gospel has been revealed and in whom experience was given by God as an apostle.

God will never consider it blasphemy. But they only reveal and testify what they become when God called them according to His divine purpose and plan. And for this purpose, God gave me the grace to become the "THE FATHER OF APOSTOLIC REVIVAL", not by the will of men but of Him who sent me and gave me the mandate to bring "REVIVAL UNTO PERFECTION" to the Church all over the world. I know, and we all know that the author of "True Revival" is God. That He alone can give "True Revival" to the Church. And for this reason God entrusted to me this task as an apostle and ordained me to father the Church and to teach her to LIVE LIKE JESUS whether the devil likes it or not.

When God chose Saul, He reveal it to Ananias in a vision. Ananias when he heard it, he gave his opinion to God and said; "Lord, I have heard many reports about this man, and all the harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem. And he has come here with the authority of the chief priest to arrest all who call in Your name", Acts 9:13. But god told him; "Go!, this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he will suffer for my name", v.15. THE SAME FELT BY MANY "ANANIAS" TODAY CONCERNING THE CALL I RECEIVED FROM GOD. Joseph too, was persecuted by his elder brothers when he told them his vision in a dream. They hated him the more when he said he will rule over them and they will bow down to him, Genesis 37:5-11. But God proved his vision to be true and fulfill it in the life of Joseph's brothers, even of his father were not able to prevent him in fulfilling his call from God.

THE REVIVAL OF GOD IS UNSTOPPABLE! Whether the camp of the unrivaled church are convinced or not, for God said that I will finish the will of the Father. My age and the length of my ministry is not what matters to God, for since in my mother's womb He chose me. I have a destiny to fulfill, I am accountable to God and I will fulfill it. Many claim that there is somehow a revival taking place in their church. The revival that I carry does not only intend to refresh or to bless, BUT IT IS A CONTINUOUS REVIVAL UNTO PERFECTION. A revival that will enable the church to live like Jesus. An apostolic revival, the greatest revival of all times! The kind of revival that God ordained before Jesus return again for the rapture of the True Church. It will put the church into deep hunger and thirst for God that they never had before.

God is pouring out all His glory to the church today, the "DOXA", which means ALL THAT GOD IS, AND ALL THAT GOD HAS, to bring her to her destiny.

It is always God's principle to raise up a man in every generation to carry out his plan. No plan of God will ever happen without a man, likewise, no plan of men will ever succeed without God. It is God's perfect will to see the Church LIVING LIKE JESUS and to come to its PERFECTION. And through His grace and mercy, THIS MANDATE IS ENTRUSTED TO ME IN THIS END TIME!

The words highlighted in blue are questionable, since it refers to heretical claim

Evaluation: How Do You Determine If A Group Is A Cult?

The following list of warning signs and "reality tests" for unhealthy or dangerous spiritual practices is designed to be an evaluation aid in reviewing a spiritual practice. One or more signs being applicable to a spiritual practice does not automatically condemn that practice as unhealthy or dangerous. But, the more warning signs that are present or the more frequently or intensely they are used tends to signal that this spiritual practice may be one that is unhealthy or dangerous. In using this list one must carefully and fairly review how the following additional factors also apply to that point:

• intended result,
• frequency and intensity of application and,
• actual result of the spiritual practice that was associated with a particular warning sign.

Warning signs and "reality tests" for unhealthy or dangerous spiritual practices:

(For example, to determine  if Jesus Is Our Shield Worldwide Ministries is a cult or not, Let us use the evaluation criteria below)

We have mark off  all the items applicable on the basis of www.JRCBDM.com  research on Jesus Is Our Shield Worldwide Ministries

• Intense indoctrination Yes
• Restricting or strongly impairing ability to leave group Yes
• Appeals to fear of not being enlightened or saved Yes
• Uses humiliation or guilt to control behavior Yes
• Appeals to vanity or egotism in becoming one of the elect, elite or chosen Yes
• Promises having power over others Yes
• Restricts access to outside ideas and people  Yes
• Demands stereotyped behavior and conformity Yes
• Encourages hyper-emotionalism and manipulation of feelings such as inducing  alternating emotional highs and lows Yes
• Plays on feelings of inadequacy or low self esteem Yes
• Encourages deception or violation of personal ethics
• Encourages over-dependency and relinquishment of personal responsibility Yes
• Restricts independent action and privacy Yes
• Uses intimidation or threats in recruiting or retaining members Yes
• Demands all members money, time or commitment Yes
• Paranoid about outsiders Yes
• Stockpiles arms for protection,
• Verbal abuse,
• Sensory deprivation,
• Alternating intensely pleasurable emotional highs (i.e love bombing by groups or individuals) with intensely negative emotional lows (i.e. public confessions humiliation etc.) Yes
• Hypnosis,
• Emotionalism is mistaken for spirituality Yes
• Prolonged mind numbing meditation, chanting etc. Yes
• Low protein diets or fasting causing low protein or oxygen deprivation trance induction,
• Altering brain rhythms to induce trance Yes
• Creating disassociative psychological states in members through trance induction hyper-emotionalism etc., and then mislabeling those induced disassociative psychological states as spiritual manifestations or signs that the member has had a legitimate spiritual experience and not being disclosed as merely an induced disassociative psychological state with all the emotional and psychological phenomena that normally are part of such disassociated states,
• Consciousness altering drugs,
• Subjection to intensely charismatic experiences Yes
• Subjection to voodoo, witchcraft, channeling, mediumship where one transfers control to someone or something else,
• Excessive ritual indoctrination
• A disproportionate focus on getting money and new recruits rather than on spiritual matters and spiritual growth
• Uses one or more of the many ways of inducing trance states
• High turn over rates of new recruits  Yes
• Has a disproportionate emphasis on public or recorded private confession Yes
• Has a disproportionate emphasis on building personal power and status Yes
• Induces fanaticism or zealotry Yes
• Induces irrationality
• Reduces compassion and empathy, members become hardened and unloving unforgiving,
• Induces intolerance towards people whose beliefs are different than their own. Yes
• Induces members to several normal relationships and/or loyalties or obligations,
• Induces members to only associate, do business, marry date etc with other members Yes
• Induces members to seek or purchase spiritual states or spiritual forgiveness Yes
• Demands obedience to authority vs. individual conscience,  Yes
• Is disproportionately concerned with security and secrecy,
• Induces members to contribute beyond their means or the dictates of wisdom Yes
• Induces members to donate so much of their time that their normal other loyalties and obligations are harmed, Yes
• Induces members to donate so much of their time or resources that their health is harmed, Yes
• Induces members to engage in other activities which harms their emotional, mental or physical health,
• Using fear and other pressures to effect free willed spiritual choices vs. respecting the un pressured reflective exercise of free willed spiritual choices, Yes
• The spiritual practices creates a group that forms a destructive cult Yes
• The spiritual practice uses tactics of unethical influence or persuasion. (The spiritual practice uses tactics of unethical mind control or brainwashing.

Other Evaluation Questions related to their leaders: 

• Do they practice, healing, sign and wonders, speaking of tongues, prayer and fasting, which are all historically not applicable to our dispensation. Yes
• Do they support, accept, endorse, and approve the holy laughter of Rodney Howard-Browne
• Do they made some prophecies that failed Yes
• Do they made some questionable and controversial claims Yes
• Do they teach questionable, extra-biblical or illusionary vision or conversation with God Yes
• Do They have extravagant lifestyle with enormous wealth and they focus on fund raising
• Do their leader/s have questionable or unorthodox behavior and they exalt and idolize their leader/s above Christ Yes
• Do they use intimidation, threat, and mind control Yes
• Do they twist the Scriptural truth and adding their own heretical teachings Yes
• Do they boast about their calling, ministry, position and especial anointing from God Yes

The following criteria are test in identifying the Cults of Christianity. In most cases, 2 or 3 factors are enough to categorize a group as a cult. Is Jesus Is Our Shield A Cult? 

No	Heretical Description	Mark
1	Rejection of the doctrine of Trinity or Godhead and replaced by their own religious ism doctrines
2	Rejection of the Deity of Christ
3	Rejection of Christ’s true humanity and the doctrine of Hypostatic Union
4	Rejection of Christ & replaced by their leader as the “new Christ” who is exalted above the Lord Jesus Christ.
5	Rejection of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone	Yes
6	Rejection of God’s plan of grace & replaced with their religious legalism	Yes
7	Rejection of Christ as the only Savior & substituted their own or introduced their co-redeemer
8	Rejection of the finished work of the Lord Jesus on the cross for all men, (Doctrine of Unlimited Atonement)
9	Rejection of the spiritual death of Christ on the cross (The Blood of Christ)	Yes
10	Rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ’s bodily resurrection
11	Rejection of Christ’s bodily ascension
12	Rejection of the absolute authority of the Bible, replaced by their “bibles”, books writings and words of their leader/s	Yes
13	Rejection of the Bible doctrine, replaced or combined with their religious doctrine	Yes
14	Rejection of the Bible, replaced with extra-biblical revelation	Yes
15	Rejection of the Universal Church & claiming that they alone are saved or to be saved	Yes
16	Rejection of the doctrine of eternal punishment and the reality of hell fire
7	Rejection of the major doctrinal teachings and majoring on the minor doctrines instead
18	Rejection of Christ, & replaced Him with their leader as the new messenger of God	Yes
19	Rejection of Bible doctrine & putting emphasis on emotional experiences	Yes
20	Rejection of doctrinal study & giving emphasis on direct revelation and vision from God	Yes
21	Rejection biblical dispensations & insisting on the historical sign gifts	Yes
22	Rejection of Bible doctrine as the Church Age believer’s top priority & becoming antagonistic against the communicator of Bible doctrine	Yes
23	Rejection of the fact that no one can determine the Return of Christ until the fulfillment of the Rapture, but making calculation of Christ’s return and the end times	Yes
24	Rejection of the doctrines that edify the Church and inventing ministries that only expand the church numerically	Yes
25	Rejection of Biblical doctrine & accepting spiritism, occultism, extra-biblical beliefs, para-normal, and adaptation of pagan rituals or practices	Yes
26	Rejection of proper biblical interpretation & depending on mystical or supernatural revelation through laying of hands, anointing, prayer and fasting or visions	Yes
27	Rejection of the fact that there is no prophecy bound for fulfillment during the Church age and they  put emphasis on mystical or unbiblical prophecy	Yes

We have demonstrated how to make a careful evaluation, using psychological, social, academic doctrinal points. Please note that, only believers with doctrinal frame of reference in their souls are capable of using the doctrinal points in this evaluation. www.JRCBDM.com  is not bias or prejudice toward any group. We evaluate every group under the motivation of love that manifests in truth.

 03/10/06

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries

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