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Join The Evangelicals

 

George L. Faull

 

 

Several men from the Restoration Movement have been pushing us to join the Evangelicals.

 

CHARISMATIC ELECTED HEAD OF

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

EVANGELICALS

 

The June, 2003 Charisma reports:

"During its 61st annual convention in March, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) elected independent Charismatic pastor Ted Haggard as its third fulltime president. Made up of 43,000 congregations from 50 member denominations and compromising 27 million constituents, the NAE is among the largest bodies of evangelical Christians in the United States."

 

Charisma magazine claims that 51 percent of NAE are Pentecostal. Some estimate that 80% of them are Charismatic or Pentecostal. Remember, Pentecostals and Charismatics believe God is still revealing new truth, while we believe "The faith has been delivered once and for all."

 

Read this, and see what the Members of the National Council of Churches are saying. Then we will show you what the Evangelicals are saying.  Some in the NAE are speaking of letting the NCC members join the NAE.

 

Episcopalian Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest who lives with a partner, has just been elected a Bishop of the Episcopalian Church. Was it a narrow vote? No! 58 out of 77 clergymen and 96 out of 165 members wanted him as the overseeing Bishop of their churches.

 

An Evangelical Lutheran Pastor spoke at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. In a former speech he said, "Resurrection does NOT mean that God reanimated the cells of his dead body of the crucified Jesus. Nor does it mean that God would have to go hunting for our parts or ashes and reconstitute our bodies." He has denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus for many years.

 

Missouri Lutheran Synod R. Don Prange says, "Homosexuality is as normal and natural as the earth revolving the sun." He also speaks of the absurdities of those Christians who would maintain that they possess a universal truth without which the majority of the world population is going to Hell. He also denies the Bible contains "absolute truth," the deity of Christ, and that "Jesus is the only way to Heaven." He is a supporter of "same sex marriages." He also denies that Jesus' death was vicarious. "The cross is not a sacrifice, certainly not something which is apart of God's design or part of a "plan of salvation" as it has been marketed for centuries." He was not disciplined or removed from L.C.M.S., but has transferred to the United Church of Christ.

 

The United Church of Christ just marked their 30th anniversary of the ordination of William Johnson, their first openly practicing gay pastor ordained in the United Church of Christ. They now allow bisexual and transvestites to be ordained ministers, as well as Lesbians.

 

The United Methodist Bishop Joseph Sprague is president of the North Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops of the United Methodist Church.

 

These comments were made in a speech given at Iliff School of Theology in Denver on January 28, 2002.

 

 

This is rank liberalism. But so are many

Evangelicals heretics.

 

William Baker, the man who wrote in the Christian Standard, wants us  to be Evangelical, and speaks of the following men as worthy of our close affiliation.

 

Billy Graham is the one who wrote the NAE Manifesto's Epilogue. Check out the NAE website.

 

Dr. Billy Graham said: 'We're coming to New York not to clean it up, but to get people to dedicate themselves to God and to send them on to their own churches  Catholic, Protestant or Jewish'" (G. Archer Weniger, "Preliminary Considerations for Fundamentalists on the Graham Ecumenical Evangelistic Campaign Scheduled for San Francisco, April 1958).

"I have some difficulty in accepting the indiscriminate baptism of infants without a careful regard as to whether the parents have any intention of fulfilling the promise they make. But I DO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING HAPPENS AT THE BAPTISM OF AN INFANT, particularly if the parents are Christians and teach their children Christian Truths from childhood. We cannot fully understand the miracles of God, but I BELIEVE THAT A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN IN THESE CHILDREN SO THAT THEY ARE REGENERATED, THAT IS, MADE CHRISTIAN, THROUGH INFANT BAPTISM. If you want to call that baptismal regeneration, that's all right with me." (Graham's interview with Wilfred Bockelman, associate editor of the Lutheran Standard, American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Standard, October 10, 1961).

"Nor was the fault always on the Catholic side, I knew. Often Latin American Protestants were guilty of intolerance, negative preaching, and inflammatory language. I had no intention of adding fuel to the fire. In fact, whenever possible during our trip south (as well as on other tours), I tried to meet with local Catholic leaders, to the occasional consternation of some of our hosts. My goal, I always made clear, was not to preach against Catholic beliefs or to proselytize people who were already committed to Christ within the Catholic Church." (Graham, Just As I Am, p. 357)

By 1962 the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association edited the Halley Bible Commentary (subtitled the Pocket Bible Handbook) to remove references to Rome's murderous Inquisition (Wilson Ewin, Today's Evangelicals Embracing the World's Deadliest Cult, p. 57). The BGEA organization acquired the printing rights of the book but was not supposed to change it. Jimmy Robbins of Cowpens, South Carolina, told me that Henry Halley's widow was upset at the way the Graham organization changed her husband's work by removing pages 676 to 705, which had described the martyrdom of millions through the papal Inquisition.

Graham at a National Council of Churches luncheon on 12/6/66, "I don't know anyone who has done more for the kingdom of God than Norman and Ruth Peale, or have meant any more to my life  the encouragement they have given me." Peale denied every basic doctrine of Christianity.

Graham appeared on the Phil Donahue show on October 11, 1979, and in discussing Pope Paul II's visit to the U.S.A., said: "I think the American people are looking for a leader, a moral and spiritual leader that believes something. And the Pope does. He didn't mince words on a single subject. As a matter of fact, his subject in Boston was really an evangelistic address in which he asked the people to come to Christ, to give their lives to Christ. I said, 'Thank God, I've got somebody to quote now with some real authority.'" (The Gospel Standard, Feb. 1986).

When Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen died, Graham said "A great loss to the nation and both the Catholic and Protestant churches. He broke down walls of prejudice between Catholics and Protestants… I count it a privilege to have known him as a friend for over 35 years. I mourn his death and look forward to our reunion in Heaven (Religious News Service, Dec. 11, 1979).

"If Catholics step forward there will be no attempt to convert them and their names will be given to the Catholic church nearest their homes" (Vancouver Sun, October 5, 1984.

 

In May 1984, Graham pointed to Mother Teresa as a hero model for American youth (Calvary Contender, Nov. 15, 1985). She did not believe that Jesus was the only way to God.

 

Graham spoke about a meeting with Pope John Paul II  "There was a pause in the conversation; suddenly the Pope's arm shot out and he grabbed the lapels of my coat, he pulled me forward within inches of his own face. He fixed his eyes on me and said, "Listen Graham, we are brothers" (6/8/89 Today). Graham said that that was a great happening in his life.

 

Bockelman said, "One would assume that, as a Baptist, Dr. Graham would be opposed to infant baptism." Bockelman not only found this not to be the case, but that Graham's wife, Ruth, had all their children, but the youngest, baptized as infants. (Reported in the Summer 1991 Dorea, pp. 910.)

 

Graham said, "I used to think that pagans in faroff countries were lost  were going to Hell  if they did not have the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached to them. I no longer believe that ….I believe there are other ways of recognizing the existence of God  through nature, for instance  and plenty of other opportunities, therefore, of saying yes to God."

 

In December 1994, Graham praised Pope John Paul II to Time magazine: "He'll go down in history as the greatest of our modern Popes. He's been the strong conscience of the whole Christian world." (Paul Gray, "Empire of the Spirit," Time, Dec. 26, 1994, p. 54). 

Graham told David Frost, "I'M EQUALLY AT HOME IN A BAPTIST CHURCH, ANGLICAN CHURCH, OR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH."

When Mother Teresa died in September 1997, Graham called her a saint.

Graham's endorsement: "Robert Schuller is a great man of God, whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop and loose." Schuller is as apostate as one can get.

MAY 31, 1997  TELEVISION INTERVIEW OF BILLY GRAHAM BY ROBERT SCHULLER

Schuller: Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?

Graham: Well, Christianity and being a true believer  you know, I think there's the Body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the Body of Christ. And I don't think that we're going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. I think James answered that, the Apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem, when he said that God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for His Name. And that's what God is doing today. He's calling people out of the world for His Name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the nonbelieving world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the  name of  Jesus,  but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in Heaven.

Schuller: What, what I hear you saying that it's possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and souls and life, even if they've been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you're saying?

Graham: Yes, it is, because I believe that. I've met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations, that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, and never heard of Jesus, but they've believed in their hearts that there was a God, and they've tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived.

Schuller: [Robert Schuller trips over his tongue for a moment, his face beaming, then says] I'm so thrilled to hear you say this. There's a wideness in God's mercy.

Graham: There is, there definitely is.

Schuller: You knew….Fulton Sheen. You knew these men. Your comments on both of these men [Fulton Sheen and Norman V. Peale].

 

Graham: [Comments about his friendship with Fulton Sheen] I lost a very dear friend, and since that time, the whole relationship between me and my work, and you and your work, and the Roman Catholic Church has changed. They open their arms to welcome us and we have the support of the Catholic Church almost everywhere we go. And I think that we must come to the place where we keep our eyes on Jesus Christ, not on what denomination or what church or what group we belong to. [End of interview]

 

Dr. James Dobson said that the earth is 3.5 to 4 billion years old. When asked about it, his spokesperson said, "Since the first eleven chapters of Genesis can be taken to be a form of poetry, and not necessarily factual history, Dr. Dobson was justified in making a figurative rather than a literal interpretation of them.

 

Dr. Dobson also signed "a covenant of Mutual Respect" where Jews, Catholics and Protestants agreed not to evangelize one another, but work together on social issues.

 

Dr. James Dobson also responded to the alleged revelation of Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright, whom God is alleged to reveal that He was to bring about a revival. The committee included James Dobson and 72 others of the Heinz variety from all denominations including Charismatics and Pentecostals.

 

Dr. James Dobson said of Franciscan University: Scott Hahn, a Roman Catholic, says of this school that Dobson said, "I have never seem a campus where the students take the Lordship of Jesus Christ so seriously."

 

Dobson also informed us that Chuck Colson nominated the Catholic School for membership in the Evangelical College coalition.

Dobson calls Pope John Paul II "The most eminent religious leader who names the name of Christ."

Chuck Colson helped design "the document Evangelicals and Catholics together. They do not want any proselyting of each other's camps. Colson calls the pope "the Holy Father! And "John Paul the Great." He accepted the Templeton Prize of one million dollars. Templeton, a New Ager, gave one million dollars to each: to Graham, Mother Teresa, Colson, and other pagan religious leaders for promoting harmony of world religions.

Colson says, "The body of Christ, in all of its diversity, is created with Baptist feet, charismatic hands, Catholic ears  all with their eyes on Jesus."

Colson says Mother Teresa is "the greatest saint in the world. He favors making "the sign of the cross" and that Catholics "Have better made visible the spiritual reality of worship." That there is "a great movement of the Holy Spirit among people completely committed to Christian living within the Catholic church."

Colson tries to show that the Reformation is useless, because now indulgences are gone. He ignores that the Catholic church still condemns with Anathema those who say that indulgences are useless.

Bill Hybel's church document says to its members, "We ask that participating members of Willow Creek minimally be able to affirm with integrity the following: That they can joyfully sit under the teaching of women teachers…that they can joyfully submit to the leadership of women in various leadership positions at Willow Creek." The female elder who wrote the piece for Hybels said, "If you cannot embrace this teaching, practically speaking, you'd probably be happier at some other church."

Hybel introduced a Catholic priest named Laz by saying he had "developed this enormous respect and admiration for this man as a brother in Christ."

Incidentally, the Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong cult, was voted a member of the NAE.

Are these men really saying what we want to be identified as our views? For me and my house, I will mark these men as heretics, not brothers in Christ. 

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