The POSITIVE CONFESSION MOVEMENT
(also referred to by some as the Word-Faith Movement)
(also referred to by some as the Word-Faith Movement)
"The fastest growing segment of professing Christianity in recent years has been among churches connected with the Positive Confession movement or Word-Faith movement (all part of the modern Charismatic movement). It has involved two distinct but closely related factions: the Norman Vincent Peale/Robert Schuller Positive-Possibility thinkers/Positive Mental Attitude, with their roots in New Thought; and the Kenneth Hagin/Kenneth Copeland Positive Confession and Word-Faith groups, which have their roots in E.W. Kenyon, William Branham, and the Manifest Sons of God/Latter Rain movement. Well-known names among its leaders are E.W. Kenyon, Charles Capps, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Frederick K.C. Price, Robert Tilton, and David [Paul] Yonggi Cho. It does not yet constitute a new denomination, but it certainly represents innovative teachings outside of mainstream Christianity. The situation is so serious now because of the dominance over the so-called Christian media achieved by the teachers of Positive/Possibility Thinking and Positive Confession."
(Source: www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/posit.htm)
BibleTruthForToday Concerns regarding this movement
Please see the following links:
www.inplainsite.org/html/word_of_faith.html
www.deceptioninthechurch.com/kcopeland.html