“At the conclusion of each lesson you will find two questions: 1) How did God speak directly to you today? 2) What is your response to Him?” With those Moore announces that participants should “hear directly from God.” Below are just some of the quotes from the study. The butterfly arrows represent from the outset the most troubling item of all. If I put an arrow on all the emotional language and hyper-adjectives throughout the book, you’d see how saturated it is with overblown hyperbole. By 2020, Moore of course is known for this emotional language, but it was present from the beginning. She over-states things emotionally, using words like “with all my heart” and “deeply desire” (striped arrows). If everything is vital and crucial, then nothing is. She uses words like “vital” and “crucial” repeatedly (the green dotted arrows in the photo below). I noticed that Moore’s writing even in her first published study was filled with adjectives that work to evoke emotions and fervency. Problem #1: Hyperbolic languageĪ good place to start in reviewing a study is the introduction. Below that, the author page for the 17th printing, 2004. Below, the Author page for the 1995 edition.
Here is my review of that study, called “ A Woman’s Heart: God’s Dwelling Place” (1995). In order to answer this essay’s question, “Is Moore just drifting, or has she always been bad?” I bought Moore’s very first study and read it. Eventually she did, and her first Bible study “ A Woman’s Heart: God’s Dwelling Place” was published by Lifeway in 1995. As the numbers of the class swelled in membership, Moore said that the ladies asked repeatedly for her to write the studies down. When the aerobics dropped off, it became a Sunday School class only. Moore began in 1985 by teaching an aerobics/Bible study at her then-home church at Houston First Baptist. Some assume that since she has been teaching so long that whatever missteps (a common word) occurred in decades past, Moore must have matured and rectified them.
It stands to reason that many women who do her studies today are unaware of her teachings from 35 years ago. Moore has published a study just about every year since the beginning. If it’s false, we can mourn the pollution such continual poison brings. If a teaching career is good we can praise the Lord for a long-term edification of His saints. Thirty-five years is almost a generation of teaching. Moore has been teaching for a long time, since 1985. The most common defense is that “She used to be good.” Or, “Her early studies were good.” “She’s just drifted a little.” How long has Beth Moore been teaching? Whenever I do a discernment essay showing that this teacher or that teacher is false, invariably I receive comments defending the teacher. If Moore is critiqued negatively in any way, her followers defend her madly. Others who don’t physically follow Moore from venue to venue but follow her online and her teachings, are fervent in their embracing not only of what Moore teaches but her entire persona. These LPL attendees are a unique crowd in that some are groupies who follow her from city to city. Moore has a television program on the TBN channel, and also travels around the country teaching at Living Proof Live (LPL) weekends, two-day sessions that fill arenas with enthusiastic women.
She has written over 35 Bible studies, three memoirs, and a novel. Her company is called Living Proof Ministries, a tax-exempt corporation founded in November of 1995. She is married with two grown children, and is a grandmother. Who is Beth Moore?īeth Moore is a Bible teacher based out of Houston. Follow up essay: Beth Moore’s Spiritual BiographyĪnswer: Beth Moore is a false teacher.
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