Introduction

"A heresy is a doctrinal error. A 'heretic' is one who exercises his own will over the Word of God and chooses an error over the truth." David Cloud Romans 16:17 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," 1 Timothy 6:5 "Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." 2 Timothy 2:16 "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." 2 Timothy 2:21 "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." 2 Timothy 3:5 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." Titus 3:10 "A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;" 2 John 1:10 "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" Revelation 18:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." 2 Thessalonians 3:6 "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." ******* Separation is not being mean or unloving, it is being obedient to God and His Word. ******* David Cloud said, "Failure to separate from error leaves one open to the influence of error." ******* "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." George Washington *******

Benny Hinn "BENNY HINN’S MINISTRY CAUGHT SCREENING HEALING CANDIDATES (Friday Church News Notes, August 24, 2007, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - In an expose of Benny Hinn’s lavish lifestyle and deceptive healing practices, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Fifth Estate documented with hidden cameras how that his staff screens audience members who come forward for healing (“Evangelist Hinn Lands under a Cloud,” The Star, Toronto, August 17, 2007). Those with obvious physical ailments are not allowed to get near Hinn. Justin Peters, a Baptist pastor in Mississippi who has studied Hinn, was quoted as saying, “It’s always somebody that has some kind of illness that can’t be readily seen” that makes it to the stage. CBC tracked down some of the people who claimed healings, only to find that “they were either still sick, never had the condition they were supposedly cured of, or had died.” The report also documented Hinn’s lavish lifestyle, his fancy cars, 7,000-square-foot ocean-side mansion, private jet, etc. In 2003 the Dateline program on NBC asked Hinn’s ministry to provide confirmation of the 56 cases of healing that were claimed at one of his crusades. Hinn’s people came up with only five cases of what they called “irrefutable and medically proven miracles.” When Dateline researched these five cases, it found that only one of the people involved could provide medical records, and her doctor suspected that the woman never had the Lou Gehrig’s disease she claimed to have been healed of (Charisma Online, Feb. 20, 2003). In January 2005 a 52-year-old man died of an apparent heart attack while attending Hinn’s “healing” crusade in Bangalore, India (“When the miracle failed to save a life,” Deccan Herald, Jan. 23). At a Hinn crusade in Fiji in January 2006 a “crippled man” on crutches who was “healed in his legs” had been photographed earlier by missionary friend Ryan Gray walking into the stadium without needing the assistance of the crutches he was carrying. Bogus “faith healers” like Hinn bring reproach to the cause of Christ. No one ever died when they were seeking healing from Christ, and He healed everyone that came to Him! God often heals today in answer to prayer, and we thank the Lord for it, but there are no apostolic gifts of healing operative today." ******* Benny's False Teachings/Quotes

Bill Bright

Bill Gaither In an interview on December 6, 2004, with Kim Jones of About.com, Bill Gaither said, "Finger pointing (judging) is never, I think, of God. Because I know that Scripture 'Judgment is mine, sayeth the Lord.' When we get out of the judgment business, the being what God wants us to be, it will take care of itself. I get weary of the finger pointing also." The fact is Bill Gaither does not "know" that Scripture, because it is not found in the Bible. The verse that he is talking about says, "Romans 12:19  "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." Mr. Gaither doesn't know his Bible so well, does he? The Bible does tell us to judge a lot of things according to the Word of God, but not according to our own ideas and beliefs. We are to judge all things in I Corinthians 2:15. We are to judge sin in the church in I Corinthians 5:12. We are to judge preaching and teaching in I Corinthians 14:29; Acts 17:11. These are just a few. Maybe Mr Southern Gospel has one of those new fangle perversions that have removed all of these verses. The fact is Mr. Gaither doesn't want to be dogmatic or to be preachy or he could make people mad, therefore losing sales. The Gaither Vocal Band The Gaither Vocal Band Video

Bill Hybels             Bill Hybels

Bill Wiese

Billy Graham                A picture is worth a thousand words! Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." ******* "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. Rather, it was to proclaim the gospel to all those who had never truly committed their lives to Christ" (Just As I Am, page 357). ******* Billy Graham's policy regarding Catholic inquirers at the 1984 Graham Crusade: "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." ******* "I feel I belong to all the churches. I'm equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist or a Brethren Assembly or a Roman Catholic Church. .... And the bishops and archbishops and the Pope are our friends." ******* In 1978 when Billy Graham held a crusade in wicked Las Vegas, he said: "I did not come here to condemn Las Vegas; I came here to preach the gospel." We are to preach the "whole consel of God." I'm not so sure that Billy Graham even knows what the gospel is based on his preaching and turning "converts" over to the Catholic Church. ******* Birthday Letter Sent to Billy Graham False Teachings/Quotes   More about Billy Graham

Brian McLaren "In January 2006, emerging church leader Brian McLaren said that the doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement makes God into a strange monster that wants to kill his own son and needs to be restrained. He futher says that if the doctrine of hell is true, then Christ's message and the cross are 'false advertising.'" He also said that if hell is true then people can legitimately question God's goodness. He even blasphemous mocks the Atonement by saying that if it is true it would  mean that God can't forgive one person unless he 'kicks someone else.'" David Cloud Wrote the heresy found in his book called A New Kind of Christian. This book denies the infallibilty of the Bible, and the doctrines and theologies contained in it are not absolute (page 56). On page 52 he says that the Bible is not our final authority, instead traditions, spiritual experiences, reason and exemplary people are the other authorities that we should turn to (page 54 and 55). ******* Supports Obamanation.

Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort Brooke Foss Westcott 1851 Dec. 21st - Westcott ordained "priest" in Church of England.   Denied the miracles found in the Bible - Westcott in 1847: "1 never read an account of a miracle but I seem instinctively to feel its improbability and discover some want of evidence in the account of it." Denied the infallibility of the scriptures. - Westcott writing to Hort in 1860: "1 reject the word infallibility of Holy Scripture overwhelming."   Hort to Lightfoot in 1860: "If you make a decided conviction of the absolute infallibility of the N. T., I fear I could not join you, even if you were willing to forget your fears about the origin of the Gospels." Denied supernatural creation found in the Book of Genises - Hort to Westcott in 1860: "... Have you read Darwin? How I should like to talk with you about it! In spite of difficulties, I am inclined to think it unanswerable. In any case, it is a treat to read such a book. "  Hort to Ellerton in 1860 "But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with. I must work out and examine the argument more in detail, but at present my feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable." Denied the efficacy (power) of the atonement - Hort said: "The fact is, I do not see how God's justice can be satisfies without every man 's suffering in his own person the full penalty for his sins." Oct. 15th - Hort: "I entirely agree - correcting one word - with what you there say on the Atonement, having for many years believed that "the absolute union of the Christian (or rather, of man) with Christ Himself" is the spiritual truth of which the popular doctrine of substitution is an immoral and material counterfeit...Certainly nothing can be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christ's bearing our sins and sufferings to His death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy." (Life, Vol.I, p.430). Anti-protestant (pro-Catholic sympathizers) Hort: "I think I mentioned to you before Campbell's book on the Atonement, which is invaluable as far as it goes; but unluckily he know nothing except Protestant theology." 1847 Jan., 2nd Sunday after Epiphany - Westcott: "After leaving the monastery we shaped our course to a little oratory...It is very small, with one kneeling-place; and behind a screen was a 'Pieta' the size of life (i.e. a Virgin and dead Christ)...I could not help thinking on the grandeur of the Romish Church, on her zeal even in error, on her earnestness and self-devotion, which we might, with nobler views and a purer end, strive to imitate. Had I been alone I could have knelt there for hours." (Life, Vol.I, p.81). Believed in the necessity of purgatory like the Catholic Church - Hort to Ellerton: "But the idea of purgation, of cleansing as by fire seems to me inseparable from what the Bible teaches us of the Divine chastisements..." Believed in the communist system - Westcott: "I suppose I am a communist by nature."  Hort: "I cannot say that I see much as yet to soften my deep hatred for democracy in all its forms."  Hort: "I cannot at present see any objection to a limit being placed by the State upon the amount of property which any one person may possess ... I would say that the co-operative principle is a better and a mightier than the competitive principle." Believed in prayers for the dead like the Catholic Church- Westcott: "We agreed unanimously that we are, as things are now, forbidden to pray for the dead apart from the whole church in our public services. No restriction is placed upon private devotions (to pray for the dead)." Believed in the idolotry worship of Mary - Hort: "I am very far from pretending to understand completely the ever renewed vitality of Mariolatry. ...I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and Jesus-worship' have very much in common in their causes and their results." (Westcott compelled his wife Sarah Louisa to take the name Mary in addition to her given name.) Believed in the sacraments (sacrifices) Hort: "Still we dare not forsake the Sacraments, or God will forsake us." Believed in baptismal regeneration - Westcott: "By birth he may, if he will, truly live here; by baptism he may if he will, truly live forever. ... I do think we have no right to exclaim against the idea of the commencement of a spiritual life, conditionally from Baptism, any more than we have to deny the commencement of a moral life from birth." Hort: "We maintain 'Baptismal Regeneration ' as the most important of doctrines ...the pure Romish view seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical." Acknowledged their heretical positions - Hort to Ellerton: "Possibly you have not heard that I have become Harold Browne's Examining Chaplain. I have only seen him two or three times in my life, not at all intimately, and was amazed when he made the proposal, in the kindest terms. I wrote to warn him that I was not safe or traditional in my theology, and that I could not give up association with heretics and such like.  Westcott to Lightfoot: "It is strange, but all the questionable doctrines which I have ever maintained are in it (a particular book lacking the fundamentals)." Other false statements made by these two false teachers. Dec. 23rd - Westcott: "My faith is still wavering. I cannot determine how much we must believe; how much, in fact, is necessarily required of a member of the Church." (Life, Vol.I, p.46). 1850 May 12th - Hort: "You ask me about the liberty to be allowed to clergymen in their views of Baptism. For my own part, I would gladly admit to the ministry such as hold Gorham's view, much more such as hold the ordinary confused Evangelical notions" (Life, Vol.I, p.148). 1858 Oct. 21st - Hort: "Further I agree with them in condemning many leading specific doctrines of the popular theology as, to say the least, containing much superstition and immorality of a very pernmicious kind...The positive doctrines even of the Evangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue...There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and especially the authority of the Bible" (Life, Vol.I, p.400). 1890 Mar. 4th - Westcott: "No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a_literal history - I could never understand how any one reading them with open eyes could think they did - yet they disclose to us a Gospel. So it is probably elsewhere." 1851 Dec. 29,30th - Hort: "I had no idea till the last few weeks of the importance of texts, having read so little Greek Testament, and dragged on with the villainous Textus Receptus.. Think of that vile Textus Receptus leaning entirely on late MSS.; it is a blessing there are such early ones" (Life, Vol.I, p.211).

Charles Stanley CHARLES STANLEY a popular Southern Baptist pastor and author said on his radio broadcast, said that God might not send people to hell if they have never heard the gospel,  “…would God send somebody to hell because they did not receive Jesus whom they never heard about, never had the privilege of knowing about? And my answer is: No, he would not” (Stanley, In Touch Ministries, “Reconciling God’s Love with His Justice,” July 31, 2001) Revelation 20:15 "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." *******

Chuck Swindoll In Grace Awaking, Swindoll says, ""I'm not a charismatic. However, I don't feel it's my calling to shoot great volleys of theological artillery at my charismatic brothers and sisters. My encouragement for you today is that each one of us pursue what unites us with others rather than the few things that separate us. ... There was a time in my life when I had answers to questions no one was asking. I had a position that life was so rigid I would fight for every jot and tittle. I mean, I couldn't list enough things that I'd die for. The older I get, the shorter that list gets, frankly. ... More than ever we need grace-awakened ministers who free rather than bind"" (Grace Awakening, pp. 188, 189, 233).  This is the New Evangelical philosophy that is rampant in our churches today. In "Grace Awakening" Swindoll teaches that fundamentalist need to be less legalistic and have grace. Swindoll does not believe in the Bible being the Word of God, he does not believe that God has preserved his Word, therefore, Swindoll is shakey in most other doctrines. Whenever you find someone who questions God's Word, you can bank on it, they're off in other doctrines as well. The Word of God is the foundation as to where a Christian is to form his doctrine. So it is vitally important that the foundation be sure.    ******* Chuck Swindoll False Teachings/Quotes

Cho Paul

Chuck Colson In 1992 Colson wrote a book The Body. This book is endorced by many new evangelical heretics such as Jerry Falwell, J.I. Packer, Pat Roberson, Carl Henry, and Bill Hybels. Colson calls for unity of evangelicals and Catholics. Colson said, "...The body of Christ, in all its diversity, is created with Baptist feet, charismatic hands, and Catholic ears-All with their eyes on Jesus." This is heresy.

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Creflo Dollar

Crough Paul

CS Lewis  “British author C.S. Lewis said hell is not a place Gods sends people who disbelieve the gospel, but a state of mind one chooses to possess and become. ‘And every state of mind, left to itself,’ he wrote, ‘every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind‑‑is, in the end, Hell’ (Lewis, The Great Divorce, p. 65)” (Calvary Contender, June 15, 1991). ******* 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" Matthew 25:41 "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" Matthew 25:46 "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." Revelation 20:15 "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." ******* C. S. Lewis believed in prayers for the dead, purgatory, and theistic evolution; he denied the infallible inspiration of Scripture and substitutionary atonement of Christ and taught that hell is a state of mind ( as noted above at the top of the page). Lewis cannot be a child of God and believe such damnable heresies. Just think Billy Graham supports such unspiritual filth. *******

Darlene Zschech Darlene Zschech is an popular worship leader and an extreme charismatic ecumenists. She is included in the new 2008 Southern Baptist Hymnal. Zscheck along with her ungodly Hillsong worship band performed at the Catholic Youth Day in Sydney, while the Pope was there. One of her songs called the "Holy Spirit Rain Down" calls for us to pray to the Holy Spirit. Where in Scripture are we told to do that? We are to pray to our heavenly Father.

David Jeremiah

David Ruis A popular worship leader who is an charismatic ecumenists. He is included in the new 2008 Southern Baptist Church hymnal. Davie was one of the worship leaders at the Toronto Airport Church who got "drunk in the spirit." One of David's songs "Break Dividing Walls" calls for ecumenical unity that is unbiblical. No where in the Bible does it remotely tell us to "break down" denominational walls and unite as one. ******* Has long hair.

Eddie Long

Elizabeth Elliott Packer said this about Thomas Howard a professor at Gordon College who turned Catholic: "I don't think becoming a Catholic is anything like the tragedy of a person becoming a liberal...Catholics are among the most loyal and virile brothers evangelicals can find these days" (Christianty Today, May 17, 1985). Elizabeth Elliott the wife of Jim Elliott agreed with Packer about her brother Howard saying, "We can have unity in diversity; my brother is a Catholic and a Christian" (spoken September 6, 1997, at a conference sponsored by WVCY of Milwaukee, Wisconsin). There is no Biblical way one can be a Christian and a Catholic. In the mid 1970s she served as one of the stylistic consultants for the New International Version of the Bible (NIV) committee. She appears on the NIV's list of contributors. Wikipedia On her web site she quotes the heretic C. S. Lewis as well as others. She uses the NIV a perversion of the Word of God. I don't understand how so called IFB churches can support someone like her and her false teachings.

Erwin Lutzer

Erwin McManus The CE (Church Executive) Interview: Erwin McManus, Senior Pastor, Mosaic Church, Los Angeles, CA   From Volume 2008, Issue 10 - 10 2008   Erwin McManus, Senior Pastor, Mosaic Church, Los Angeles, CA In a interview with Ronald Keener, McManus said this concerning some changes that he had made at the church since he had been there: "Mosaic has 50 ethnicities; it’s called one of the world’s most diverse congregations. When I came here 16 years ago the church had been plateaued for 15 years and declining for about four years. It had about 300 adults. It was a great church; it was kind of a blue collar family church but it was more known for what it was against — like the movie industry, it was hostile toward people with AIDS, it was hostile towards the gay community. Even though we and the Southern Baptists have the same high view of Scripture we probably have a very, very different posture toward the city. So while the Southern Baptists were boycotting Disney we were doing Bible studies in Disney. While the Baptists were boycotting Universal City, I ended up going over there and making friends with people in Universal City. Now we meet in a night club downtown called the Mayan, it’s a secular night club with thousands of pagan gods carved all over the place. We rent that place on Sunday." Keener asked McManus, "After you left seminary what was your first assignment?" McManus said," I went to seminary for a semester and dropped out. It really seemed incredibly outdated and antiquated and irrelevant to the culture that I knew. Because of my faith I had such a high view of the Scripture, really the seminary didn’t have as high view of Scripture as I did. I’d been in a secular university studying the Bible under an orthodox Jewish professor who had a higher view of the Old Testament. So it was kind of a curious thing for me. I started multiple churches among the poor or homeless or prostitutes or drug dealers or drug addicts. So I spent my time reaching the community that I felt Jesus cared about." McManus Unbiblical Conversion "You didn’t grow up in the church. What’s your conversion story? Keener asked." "I am from Central America, my grandmother was more Roman Catholic in her background, and my grandfather was more of a humanist. He also believed in reincarnation so he taught me reincarnation. I think maybe between the ages of birth and 18, I might have gone to Roman Catholic, pre-Vatican II Mass, where everything was in Latin, maybe three times in my life. Actually it was quite beautiful. I didn’t fully understand what was going on, but I was attracted to the spirituality of it and did have a clear sense of Jesus at the middle of the story. There was the huge symbol of Jesus being crucified, and the one thing I definitely got out of those two or three times I went to Catholic Mass was that Jesus had died for the sins of the world. Then I went off to college and became a philosophy major. I was pretty much a mystic who probably from most people’s descriptions would not have a view of a personal God. I wasn’t anti-religious; I was oblivious to the existence of people who were religious. If you had asked me I would have told you that I was spiritual. If you had asked me about Jesus, I would have told you, you know, great guy. If you had asked me about Buddha, I would have told you the same thing. My roommate was a pretty devout Roman Catholic in college and he would go to these university-based events and I went a few times. But when a nun came up to me and asked me to hold the Bible, I told her to keep that book away from me, I wanted to have nothing to do with it." Keener went on to aske McManus, "Your mother had an influence on your conversion?" "During that time my mom became a pretty passionate follower of Christ; she called me up at college and said she’d become a Christian. I had no idea what she meant. I never heard that phrase in my whole life, but she seemed really happy, so I was happy for her. We’d been through a couple of family crises. My mom had been through two divorces, pretty painful, and so she was now going through this divorce and she was looking for some kind of meaning and peace in her life and stumbled into a Methodist church where there was a Baptist speaker. His name was Jim Henry and he was a pastor at that time at the First Baptist Church of Orlando, FL. She heard the message of Jesus in a way she’d never heard it. It was really compelling and at the age of 40 my mom became a follower of Christ.... I was a mystic who really was a humanitarian; I wanted to make the world a better place." Keener asked, "And who was the major influence on these people?" "My mom was saved first, and the person who led her to Christ was Jim Henry. But so many people from that church surrounded my family, they just loved us and cared for us all the time. They invited us to parties and events and they were fun. To be honest with you, they were the most enjoyable, likeable people we ever met in our lives. Not thinking of themselves, but thinking about others. We never experienced people like that. So I remember the evening, it was August 20, 1978, I just told God you know if this is real, if you can do something with me then I want to do it.  It was one of those life-changing moments for me, where everything changed on a dime." Wrote the book called The Barbarian Way. It is full of heresies naturally because the author is an heretic. McManus calls for Christians to stop following the Bible way and take up "the barbarian way." He says those who do are following the voice of Christ, but that voice is not necessarily found in the Bible (page 84).

Friedrich Schleiermacher Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768-1834 Was a German philosopher who taught that one's experience and feelings were more important than Biblical doctrine. He like modern New Evangelicals used the same traditional Christian language but changed there meaning. Did not believe that the Bible was the historically true and infallible Word of God. "Schleiermacher is correctly viewed as the chief source of the massive change which has occurred in the historic Protestant denominations during the last two hundred years...." (Iain Murray, Evangelicalism Divided 2000, p. 11).

George Carey In 1998 he said, "For many of us in the Church, liberalism is a  creative and constructive element for exploring theology today...It would constitute the end of Anglicanism as a  significant force in world-wide Christianity if we lost this vital ingredient (Church of England Newspaper, April 9, 1998, page 8). When speaking at an Muslin mosque Carey said, "Muhammad was clearly a great religious leader whose influence on millions has been for the good." He also made fun of Christians who preach Jesus is the only way to heaven.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, art critic, theologian, Lutheran deist, and one of the representives of the Age of Enlightment. Also known as "father of German criticism" (Minute History of the Drama, 1935). Engaged in translating the works of Voltaire. Deism leads to false religions as Unitarianism, which has now developed into Unitarian Universalism. It continues to this day in the form of classical deism and modern deism.

Harold Lindsell

Harold Ockenga

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) developed Critical Philosophy - "Critical philosophy" is also used as just another name for Kant's philosophy itself. It teaches that human reasoning is superior to Scripture and tries to unite Scripture with "the holiest teaching of reason." Denied the supernatural. Taught the Bible was mostly mythical. Satan represented the evil principle in human nature. Jesus represented the good principle in human nature. Denied the miricles in the Bible.

Jack Hayford "BEWARE OF JACK HAYFORD    Republished August 16, 2007 (first published March 28, 2006) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -    Jack Hayford is the influential Pentecostal pastor of Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and the author of many popular books and contemporary praise songs, including "Majesty."* Hayford belongs to the Four Square Pentecostal Church, a denomination founded by a woman, Aimee Semple McPherson, in direct disobedience to the Word of God. "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" (1 Tim. 2:12).    Christianity Today magazine calls Hayford "The Pentecostal Gold Standard" (Christianity Today, July 2005), but when his theology and practice is placed under the microscope we find that his position is not the untarnished gold of Scripture but the rust and corrosion of extra-biblical "revelation."    Speaking at St. Louis 2000, for example, Hayford told of how his daughter approached him one day with a concern about her "tongues speaking." She was afraid that she was speaking mere gibberish, but he encouraged her that the believer must first learn to speak in baby tongues before he speaks in adult tongues. (I attended this conference with press credentials and heard Hayford say this.) There is absolutely no Bible support for such nonsense and it denies the Pentecostal's claim that the Bible is his sole authority for faith and practice. Biblical tongues-speaking is not something that be learned; it is supernatural gift and there is not one example in the New Testament of someone learning how to speak in tongues.    At the Promise Keepers Clergy Conference in 1996 Hayford urged the crowd of 40,000 to "dance in the Lord," saying that he learned the dance in Africa and that later the Lord said to him, "May I have this dance?" An eyewitness called it "an African witch-doctor dance" (Bruce Caldwell, "Following in the Footsteps of the Apostate Presbyterians," Christian News, March 11, 1996). Nowhere in the Bible do we find God dancing with His people. Further, the Bible plainly warns, "Learn not the way of the heathen" (Jer. 10:2).    Hayford claims that he got his radical position on ecumenism directly from God. He says that in 1969, as he approached a large Catholic church in Southern California, God spoke to him and instructed him not to judge Roman Catholicism. He says he heard a message from God saying, "Why would I not be happy with a place where every morning the testimony of the blood of my Son is raised from the altar?" ("The Pentecostal Gold Standard," Christianity Today, July 2005) Based upon this "personal revelation," Hayford adopted a neutral approach to Catholicism, yet upon the authority of the Bible I know that the message that Hayford heard was demonic. The atonement of Jesus Christ is NOT glorified on Roman Catholic altars. The Mass is an open denial of the doctrine of the once-for-all atonement that we find in the book of Hebrews. Note what the Vatican II Council said about the Mass: "For in it Christ perpetuates in an unbloody manner the sacrifice offered on the cross, offering himself to the Father for the world's salvation through the ministry of priests" (The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, "Instruction on the Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery," Intro., C 1, 2, p. 108). This is only a small part of Rome's wicked heresies, and it is impossible that God would encourage Jack Hayford to look upon the Roman Catholic Church in any sort of positive, non-judgmental manner. If Hayford based his theology about the Roman Catholic Church strictly upon the Bible, he would never fall for such delusion.    Hayford has acted on this "personal revelation" by yoking up with Roman Catholic leaders in conferences throughout the world. For example, he joined hands with thousands of Roman Catholics, including hundreds of Catholic priests and nuns, at the North American Congress on the Holy Spirit & World Evangelization in St. Louis in 2000.    Hayford was a featured speaker at John Wimber's 1991 conference in Sydney, Australia, joining hands in that forum with Catholic priests Tom Forrest and Raniero Cantalamessa and Catholic layman Kevin Ranaghan. Speaking at Indianapolis '90 Forrest said he praises God for purgatory. Cantalamessa was the papal preacher at the Vatican. Ranaghan claims that the Roman Catholic Church alone contains the fullness of God and truth and that the Pope is the infallible head of all churches. Hayford put his stamp of approval upon these men's heresies by appearing with them and treating them as if they were true men of God.    Hayford is on the Board of Regents for Melodyland Christian Center, which has a close relationship with Roman Catholicism. A fellow board member is Roman Catholic Fred Ladenius, author of Amazing John XXIII, a book fully supportive of the Pope by that name, a Pope who died with a Rosary in his hand and prayers to Mary and Catholic "saints" on his lips.    Hayford also has a close relationship with heretic Robert Schuller. He spoke at Schuller's Men's Conference