MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE’S ENROLLMENT PLUMMETS DUE TO LEADERSHIP’S MORAL FAILINGS & LIBERAL LEANINGS
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LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has been reporting on
and challenging Moody Bible Institute for several years because they
have been progressively promoting and turning to contemplative
spirituality via Spiritual Formation programs. And yet, in our dealings
with them, they have always denied doing this. As we have pointed out
so many times, once a school begins going down that path, liberalism
(or what we call emergent) and a twisted view on the Gospel and the
Bible are the byproducts. Perhaps Moody leadership thought they would
increase enrollment by becoming trendy, culturally relevant, emerging,
contemplative, and liberal. They forgot one thing – God doesn’t bless
the mixing of truth and error – in fact, He judges it.
The following article was posted in November of 2017. On January 10th, the Broken Twig blog posted a new article titled “Moody just accepted resignations of President Paul Nyquist, Provost Junias Venugopal & COO Steve Mogck.”
While replacing Moody’s leadership may solve some of their problems, if
the school doesn’t acknowledge their embracing of the contemplative
prayer movement, they will not climb out of this hole but will continue
falling further into it.
By The Broken Twig blog
“We’re in a storm.” That’s the reason President
Nyquist recently gave for a nearly 30 percent drop in enrollment at
Moody the past four years, which has caused the institute to close its
Spokane campus and cut more than 20 faculty in Chicago. Nyquist took no
responsibility for this dramatic drop in enrollment, which occurred
on his watch, but attributed it to a nationwide trend – a “college
bubble” that is bursting. He also pointed to a changing culture that
rejects Christ and His Word and fails to raise children interested in a
Bible education.
While it’s true that many have predicted that the
future pool of college applicants is shrinking, bursting a bubble that’s
prevailed for decades, it doesn’t explain Moody’s dramatic downturn
in such a short amount of time. In fact, total fall enrollment in
post-secondary institutions from 2013-2015 decreased only two percent nationwide. During that same time period, applications at Moody plummeted from 1,300 to 1,040 – a 20 percent drop! . . .
Enrollment at Moody was steady until 2013 when it
began to plummet. In September of that year, Moody changed its
longstanding policies regarding alcohol, smoking and gambling. In fact,
the policy position was so startling, even the New York Times wrote a piece documenting the change. Click here to continue reading.
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Moody’s Pastors’ Conference Teaching Lectio Divina This Week – And Seven Years of Warning by Lighthouse Trails Go Unheeded
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By Dwight L. Moody
I do not see how any Christian, most of all
a Christian minister, can go into these secret lodges with
unbelievers. They say they can have more influence for good, but I say
that they can have more influence for good by staying out of them and
reproving their evil deeds.
You can never reform anything by unequally
yoking yourself to ungodly men. True reformers separate themselves
from the world. But, some say to me, if you talk that way you will
drive all the members of secret societies out of your meetings and out
of your churches. But what if I did? Better men will take their
places. Give them the truth anyway, and if they would rather leave
their churches than their lodges, the sooner they get out of their
churches the better.
I would rather have ten members who are separated from the world than a thousand such members! Come out from the lodge.
Better one with God than a thousand without
Him! We must walk with God, and if only one or two go with us, it is
all right. Do not let down the standard to suit men who love their
secret lodges or have some darling sin they will not give up!
(source: https://www.thebereancall.org/content/dwight-l-moody-masonry).