In Depth:  Peter Glover

I have long since given up expecting honest, old-fashioned, balanced news reporting from the BBC.

Nor are the rest of the British broadcast media and much of the serious print media much better - at least when it comes to reporting on political and social issues.

The cyberchurch, and the possibilities it offers for global scale fellowship, is already enthusing many evangelical leaders.

The presence of church and parachurch ministries on the internet, in just a few years into the new millennium, is already enormous. It is right also that Christianity should make its presence felt.

Christian TV has arrived in Britain, but the channel has proved very controversial.

The Christian Channel Europe (CCE), the first British-based Christian satellite TV channel, re-launched itself last December with the infusion of $3 million, mainly from US evangelical sponsors, including Benny Hinn. In doing so the channel's name was changed adopting the new title of the 'God' channel.

We are becoming used to hearing rumours about 'new moves of the Spirit'. Brace yourself, yet another may well be about to break upon the British church scene. EN investigates ......

In the partial lull after 'Toronto' many have been awaiting either the next 'movement of the Holy Spirit' or the next outbreak of 'counterfeit Christianity' - depending on one's perspective and biblical understanding.

In a decade of controversial movements rumours have been rife for over a year now of the next big thing about to hit the British church scene: Promise Keepers. EN carried news of this last September. Now Peter Glover reports . . .

Born in the USA (God's apparent spawning ground for new movements) five years ago, Promise Keepers has seen enormous growth especially among evangelicals.

Mark Haville's is an extraordinary story. Converted into the Pentecostal/ Charismatic church he quickly came under the spell of the Word-Faith teaching of men like Kenneth Copeland. But things did not stay that way for Mark . . .

Still in his mid-20s, Mark became an itinerant minister travelling the country earning large sums of money through his ability to perform 'signs and wonders'. Remarkably, he has renounced his former life, his beliefs and his practices as a Word-Faith minister and is now speaking out boldly against the beliefs and practices of the current Signs & Wonders movement. Peter Glover spoke to Mark on behalf of EN.

Peter Glover talks to Michael Horton, President of Christians United for Reformation (CURE).

Michael Horton is still in his thirties. In America he is a well-known evangelical author and President of CURE (Christians United for Reformation). The fact that a string of highly-respected authors (including Jim Packer, Don Carson, James Montgomery Boice, R.C. Sproul, Alistair McGrath et al) support and contribute to CURE's work may say something about the materials produced by CURE and Michael Horton's emergence as a major figure on the American evangelical scene.