ABOUT THE BOOK

The Discipleship/Shepherding Movement (1970-77) was a demonic wind of insidious deception that blew through the Neo-Pentecostal stream of the Church realm wreaking spiritual destruction effecting millions of believers in Christ – individuals, families, and churches – the devastating effects of which in the natural realm remain yet today nearly a half-century later.

Owing extensively to the faulty theological theories and teachings promulgated during that wind of “deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,” hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices are now cemented into the very foundation, fabric, and functions of many churches, major segments of some denominations, as well as many apostolic networks of churches, ministries, and ministers that emerged over the last four or five decades. The problem is now so widespread, it has reached pandemic proportions in Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal streams.

The primary purpose of Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering is to analyze against the foundation-stone of Scripture, one of the foundational elements of this hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical culture, demonstrate its irrefutable incongruity with Scripture, and disabuse believers from acceptance of and adherence to it, thereby liberating them from the invisible chains of psychological enslavement that have been holding them in bondage to illegitimate authority structures of men.

The author of this book, Dr. Steven Lambert, a Pentecostal/Charismatic Bible scholar and theologian, shows conclusively that so-called “spiritual covering,” as theorized by those who teach, promulgate, and adhere to it, is an absolute myth and an unmitigated lie, and that indeed no semblance of the version of “spiritual covering” taught by its proponents exists anywhere within Scripture. It is a complete fabrication concocted by the originators of these fallacious doctrines by which to facilitate and perpetuate their purely self aggrandizing objectives of subjugation, domination, and control of the sheep of God’s Flock.