IGREJA CRISTÃ MARANATA: WARNING TO FOREIGNERS!

On July 15, 2025, Alexandre Gueiros, president of Igreja Cristã Maranata (ICM), addressed an internal meeting with the pastors of the institution. On that occasion, he described the advance of the “international mission” as an impressive expansion, citing new groups in several Asian and Latin American countries. According to him, three groups in the Philippines, forty pastors in Indonesia, and three more in India are already “accepting the work”.

However, at the public seminar on October 18, 2025, Alexandre gave a completely different speech. When asked by foreign pastors whether to rename their churches as “Maranata,” he replied: “No, don’t change it. The name doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are living our doctrine — the doctrine revealed by the Holy Spirit.”

This shift reveals several contradictions:

1. Hidden agenda: If ICM only wants “spiritual communion” with foreign churches, why does it absorb them into its institutional structure — while in Brazil it refuses to engage with any other evangelical denominations?

2. Exclusion of former members: Why doesn’t ICM seek communion with churches founded by former members who still follow much of ICM’s doctrine and worship style?

3. Double discourse: For pastors, the message is about conquest and expansion (using biblical language like “entering the Promised Land”); for members, it’s a softer narrative of “unity and communion.” This is a classic institutional manipulation tactic.

4. Lack of transparency: How much does this project cost? How much of the Brazilian members’ tithe money is funding these trips, translations, housing, and operations abroad? Members don’t know.

5. Warning to foreign pastors: If you’re being invited to “live the Maranata doctrine,” be cautious. This doctrine is exclusive, controlling, and condemns all other Christian expressions. Once inside the system, leaving often means being labeled a “fallen” or “apostate.”

6. Warning to ICM members: You are funding a power project that doesn’t respect your intelligence or freedom. If you leave, you keep nothing of what you helped build — not even the truth.

Conclusion: The “international mission” is not evangelism — it’s politics. It’s not spiritual — it’s institutional. It’s not about Jesus — it’s about control.

Jesus said: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32). And when the truth comes, the mask falls.