He begins where every
pastor should be able to begin and that is with a reminder to the elders of the
exemplary life he had lived while he was among them. He could say this with
confidence and the elders knew it was so. There were no lingering doubts among
them as to whether or not this man had taken their money by fraudulent means or
had been inappropriate with any of their women. In our day and time this might
be difficult for some pastors to do and difficult for some elders to believe
should their pastor say such things about himself.
The apostle reminds
the elders that he “kept nothing back that was helpful, but proclaimed it to
you” concerning “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”
(vv.18-21). And why? Why did the apostle give his life for the Ephesians in such
a manner that it cost him in great suffering? Was he getting paid well for his
services? Did he do it because it brought him fame? In verse 24 he says, “But
none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I
may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord
Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” And in verse 26 he could
say with all confidence, “Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent
of the blood of all men.”
My brothers in the Lord, will there come a day
when you will know without a doubt that you can stand before all the souls you
have spoken to in your churches and over television and say to them without
flinching that you are innocent of all blood? While you taught and preached in the company of
false teachers, false prophets, false apostles, false bishops, false believers
and false leaders of all manner, will you confidently say that your association
with these people did no harm to your people? “Guilt by association” is
sometimes not a just charge, but will it be a just charge against you as you
preach side by side with the worse deceivers the church has ever
witnessed?
Paul continues speaking to the elders, the leaders of the
church, to warn them of the “ravenous, savage wolves” who will “come in among
you, not sparing the flock.” He tells them to beware because “Also from among
yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
disciples after themselves.” He tells them twice with the same word the Lord
Jesus used, v.28, “Therefore take heed to yourselves,” but not only to
yourselves, “and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His won blood.”
And v.31, “Therefore watch.” Paul warned the Ephesians and therefore the church
in the 21st century, that there would come enemies from without and from within.
Peter declares the same truth in his second letter (2:1-3). And the pastors and
leaders of the 21st century local church are given the same responsibility to guard the flock from
these predatory mongrels.
Brethren, you are standing in the midst of
these “savage wolves,” these enemies from without and from within, and not only
are you not warning the blood bought church of the dangers, you are giving the
appearance of your approval to their damnable heresies. You “congratulated” one
of the leading false teachers and false prophets and false leaders in the world
today for his hard work in “spreading the gospel!” Unbelievable! Are your hands
“innocent of the blood of all men?” Are you taking heed over the church to which
the Holy Spirit has given you charge? Do you not realize that now through your
television broadcasts you have taken upon yourselves the responsibility of
millions of souls who are watching you preach along side the likes of Benny
Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, Joel Osteen, and other notorious liars? Are you
taking heed for these souls as well as your individual congregations?
When the Lord Jesus warned us that many of these false leaders
would come, and when Paul and Peter and John and Jude followed in the Holy
Spirit with the same warnings, they revealed a progression in the unfolding of
these events plainly declaring that times would get more difficult as we draw
closer to the end of times (2 Tim.3:-4:5; 2 Pet.1:19-2:3; 1 Jn.2:18-19). We, my
brothers, are not ministering the gospel in easy times, in spite of the fact
that America has many “megachurches” and the "health and wealth feel good gospel" is popular. We minister the gospel of grace, the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the last days.
THEY ARE HERE
NOW
Many deceivers are with us now, those from without and those from
within, and they have all found a home on TBN, both the deceivers and the
deceived. My concern is, does your presence on TBN in any way, give legitimacy
to their activities? Paul and Jan Crouch, the president and founder of TBN and
his wife, like to frequently mention Billy Graham on their programs just to give
the audience the feeling that everything is perfectly orthodox. Just as Robert
Schuller has a statue of Mr. Graham in front of his “crystal cathedral.” Dr.
Oral Roberts used to drop Mr. Graham’s name occasionally for the same purpose.
It helps to cover up the bizarre by presenting a familiar face. “Surely, if
Billy Graham endorses these people, they are okay.”
But Paul wrote to the
Galatians and told them that if he or an angel preached another gospel, let them
be accursed. If Billy Graham (and he in fact has, as has Dr. Stanley, James
Merritt, Ed Young, Ronnie Floyd, and of all people, Dr. D. James Kennedy) gives
approval to these people, that does not by any means equate to God’s approval.
It does say something about those who give their approval. Will these other
preachers follow in the steps of Mr. Graham and visit Jan and Paul in order to
express their appreciation the way Mr. Graham did also with Oprah? Is there no
spiritual discernment among any of you? A four year old child could see the
heresies so blatantly portrayed on TBN.
MORE WAYS THAN
ONE
In May or June of 2004, Paul Crouch announced that anyone, including
Muslims, could get saved just by reading the Qur’an. I had been tuning in to
keep up with current events on TBN and had witnessed him holding a copy of the
Qur’an and making various flattering remarks about Islam. He referred to Muslims
as “our brothers.” This only makes sense since Crouch also refers to theology as
“doctrinal doo-doo.” His theology apparently does not need Jesus Christ dying on
the cross and rising again because Muslims deny the incarnation, the deity, the
death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. One of the stated goals of Islam is
to destroy this belief (The Beliefnet Guide to Islam, pp.19, 147). If they can
be saved through Islam, then Crouch has found a “new Way” to
heaven.
LITTLE GODS
In a broadcast featuring Kenneth
Copeland, Crouch affirms, “I have his name. I’m one with him. I’m in a covenant
relationship. I am a little god.” This is certainly good company to be in, isn’t
it? What would you do, SBC, if Charles Stanley or Page Patterson claimed to be little gods? And Copeland gave what was received as a “prophecy” saying, “They crucified
Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn’t claim I was God; I just claimed I
walked with Him and that He was in Me.” Later as Copeland explains this he says,
“He hadn’t come to earth as God, He’d come as man. He’d set aside His divine
power.” There are numerous sources where one can find the videos and audios that
record this transaction between Copeland and Crouch and more (see Hank
Hannegraff’s “Christianity in Crisis,” and “Counterfeit Revival” and any number
of sites on the web).
Something to think about: Crouch and Copeland can
proclaim themselves to be little gods (along with many others) while denying the
deity of Jesus Christ. In other words,
“Jesus was not God, but I am.” This may
be innocuous to you but it is deadly to me. If we are all “little gods” and can
do as the word faith teachers proclaim, then we actually don’t need the “big”
God. After all, as Joel Osteen teaches, “our words prophesy our future.” We can
“create” our own reality. We can “name it and claim it.” We can be like Abraham
and “confess things into being that are not” (a very gross misreading of Romans
4:16-18).
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
Brethren, as I have
already stated, these heresies are not new. These contemporary false teachers
did not invent them; Satan did. But in the early years of the developing
theology of the church they would have been promptly, and rightfully so,
condemned by men of God who gathered in a “counsel” to put a stop to such
absolute nonsense. What the early church fathers sought to do was, as Barney
Fife would suggest, “nip it in the bud.” Remember Arius? What the church needs
today is a “new reformation.” One that stands for Biblical truth and against the darkness that it has so lovingly embraced.
Heresy is a cancer in the body of Christ;
a cancer that can be stopped by the proper treatment administered at the right
time. While the brethren are preaching ear-scratching “cotton candy” sermons (as
someone described Osteen’s “talks”), their congregations are starving to death
as a result of the cancerous growth that is destroying the body. Believers will not tolerate cotton candy for long. This cancer
removes the desire and appetite for the real and substantial meat of the Word of
God. And it is the meat of the Word that will heal this festering illness. The
congregations that are listening to this “fluff” that passes for preaching, are
so lively and “happy clappy” (to use a phrase used by Dr. MacArthur), yet they
are “whited sepulchers, full of dead men’s bones” and unaware of the diagnosis
of their true condition.
BAD COMPANY RUINS GOOD MORALS
A
brief reading of TBN preachers reads like an advertisement from a “Heretics Are
Us” store: Benny Hinn, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Rod Parsley, Jesse
Duplantis, R.W. Schambach, Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Paula White, Robert
Schuller, Eddie Long, Frederick K.C. Price, Creflo Dollar, Tommy Tenney,
Clarence McClendon, John Hagee, Juanita Byrum, Joseph Prince, and Mark Cherona. There are
others, but this should suffice. What astounds me about the so-called
“ministries” of these people is that they can say literally anything and no one
is bothered by it. Do truth and integrity matter to anyone? Does anyone care?
Apparently the “no one” includes the so-called evangelicals who broadcast over
TBN.
BENNY HINN
In the early 90’s Benny Hinn prophesied “by the Spirit of the Lord”
that Fidel Castro would die in 1994 or 1995, the mid-nineties; I guess the Holy
Spirit wasn’t quite sure about an exact date. During that same period Hinn again
prophesied by the Spirit that the entire homosexual community in America would
be destroyed by fire sent from God in the mid-nineties. Did anyone notice that
neither prophecy came to pass? Apparently not. Did he lose his following?
Absolutely not. Does this matter to the SBC?
I was watching with my
son-in-law and my wife one night when Hinn stopped a conversation and said,
“Wait a minute! The Holy Spirit is telling me something. Now, I don’t know if
this is true or not.” And he continued with something that I couldn’t hear for
the laughter coming from my family. How can a man say such bizarre things and no
one protest? How can a man who is so clearly deceived continue to influence
millions over the airways and in packed auditoriums around the world? Does
anyone care?
On another occasion we were watching when Hinn announced
that a woman had prophesied that Jesus Christ Himself would appear on stage with
brother Benny when he went to preach in Africa. Benny later made the prophecy
his own on the same broadcast that night saying very boldly, “I tell you by the
Spirit of the Lord that this will come to pass.”
(The woman died weeks
later and Jesus never made an appearance). Paul Crouch and the studio were
overcome with excitement, Paul, beside himself, declaring that they would have
“footage” of Christ on stage with Hinn. Now there’s a video I would buy. (and
the video of this broadcast can be found just by going to Google and typing in
“Benny Hinn”). *Many of these broadcasts have unfortunately been removed. I wonder why.
Did Hinn’s ministry diminish after this? No, his crusades
are as popular as ever. And what about his prophecy on a broadcast with Paul
Crouch that people would be raised from the dead while Hinn’s broadcast was on
the air? Hinn said that people would bring their dead loved ones into their
homes, “in their coffins,” and sit them in front of the tv and they would be
raised from the dead during a Benny Hinn show. Now that would make headline news
around the world! Did anybody check to see how many cemeteries had been
vandalized due to relatives digging up loved ones and carrying them home to
watch a little tv? Did anyone really believe this and follow through on what
Hinn said was a word from the Lord? Probably not. Do they still follow Hinn
whenever he is in town? Yes, they do. Do believers care? Do Christian leaders
care? Apparently not.
Benny Hinn is by far the most bizarre of the false
prophets on TBN, but just a few steps behind him are the Copelands and their
traveling companion, Jesse Duplantis. Copeland and several other word faith
teachers including Joyce Meyers teach that Jesus was “born again in hell” after he had gone there and
suffered for our sins and “whipped Satan.” According to the Copelands, Jesus was
killed by the demons of hell as they tormented Him but God came through and
raised Him up by the Holy Spirit, thus making Jesus the “first born again man.”
It doesn’t concern the word faith teachers that this has no basis in Scripture,
but comes from the demented minds of such people as Kenneth Hagin and E. W.
Kenyon.
In my early years as a believer a friend of mine was “really into
Kenyon” and persuaded me to buy a couple of his books. It did not take long for
me, a babe in Christ, to recognize the horrible heresy I was holding in my
hands. How could I catch that truth at such an early stage in my faith? I was
devouring the Word of God instead of this garbage like so many of my charismatic
friends were doing. Jesus said “My sheep hear my voice….”
KENNETH COPELAND
Kenneth
Copeland adds a little twist to the born again Jesus theology in a story he has
related on his broadcast several times. On a Sunday morning broadcast of the
“Believer’s Voice of Victory,” Copeland says that one morning while he was
shaving Jesus (or “God”) came to see him in his bathroom. Ken, of course, was
not shocked, scared, terrified, or humbled by his buddy’s appearance, he just
kept on shaving. During their conversation Jesus told Ken that He was able to
defeat Satan because He was a “born again man.” Ken said, “What! You don’t mean
to tell me.” And Jesus said, “Yes, that’s right. You could have done the same
thing.” So Copeland concludes that he could have done the same thing Jesus did
because he is also a born again man. And that was the point of Jesus’ visit. Not
only does Copeland conclude this but he says that Jesus confirmed his
conclusion. Does anyone care that this nonsense is being passed as
truth?
Now follow Copeland’s line of thought here as we also follow it to
its logical conclusion. Everything that the Lord Jesus Christ did for us was
planned before the foundation of the earth, before time began. All of the
messianic prophecies in the Old Testament point to Jesus, the Messiah. Does
Copeland understand that what his jesus told him means that the prophecies
pointing to the Messiah could have pointed to him just as well. All God had to
do apparently was wait. The coming of Jesus then, was to do something that
anyone could have done, if it is true that Copeland could have done the same
thing? This is nonsense at its worst. This may very well be what Peter had in
mind when he wrote his second letter saying that false teachers would come “even
denying the Lord who bought them” (2:1-3).
Why did God even bother?
Kenneth Copeland (and Jesse Duplantis) could have done the same thing Jesus did. All that was needed was a
born again man. Copeland is saying to jesus as jesus has just said to him, “If I
had been around back then I could have done the same thing. I could have whipped
Satan. And, if Satan needed whippin’ right now, I could do it.” “Yes,” said
Copeland’s jesus, you could.”
Herein lies a three-fold problem with
Copeland’s story. First, the Bible never says that Jesus was “born again.” This
theology is the creation of twentieth century deceivers. Jesus Christ is the
“God-man,” “Immanuel, God with us.” John tells us that “in Him there is no
darkness at all.” The writer of Hebrews says that He faced temptation “yet
without sin.” Jesus did not have to be born again. Second, Copeland’s story is
absolutely absurd, asinine, ludicrous
and impossible! Has anyone considered the
obvious fact that Jesus had to do what He did in order for it to be possible for
anyone to be born again in the first place? Unless Copeland was born two
thousand years ago as the only begotten of the Father, he could not have done
what Jesus did because in fact, Jesus did what He did two thousand years ago and
Copeland did not. It is that screwy! Jesus did it first…and only. What
Copeland’s jesus was suggesting is completely and utterly
irrational!
Furthermore, and third, in the land of fruits and nuts, this
story begs the question, “Jesus (or “God,” the story changes with the telling),
told Copeland that he could have done the same thing that Jesus did? Jesus or
God told Copeland this?
Was this the same God who told Joseph that Jesus would save His people from their sins?
Was this the same God who spoke from heaven on
the Mount of Transfiguration and said, “This is My Beloved Son. Hear
Him?”
Was this the same God who, through the prophets, gave hundreds of
prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah, Jesus, the Son of
God?
Was this the same God who promised the “seed” to Abraham that Paul
tells us was indeed Jesus?
Was this the same God who through the prophet
Isaiah foretold and described the suffering of the One who was to
come?
Was this the same God who through the prophet John the Baptist said
of Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the
world?”
Was this the same God who revealed to Peter that Jesus is “the
Christ, the Son of the living God?”
Was this the same God who “so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him
might not perish but have everlasting life?”
Was the God that Copeland
says spoke the God of the Bible? The God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ?
If this was Jesus, was he the same Jesus who said “I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me?” And
should Copeland say “yes, this was the God of the Bible and the Jesus of the
Bible who told me these things,” then the church has a few matters that it must
consider concerning the person of Kenneth Copeland and all of his
kind.
Before Jesus Christ could overcome the devil, death, hell and the
grave, He had to “suffer many things” (Mt.16:21). Before Jesus could redeem us
from sin and save us from eternal damnation He had to (dei, “it was necessary”)
suffer the rejection of His own people and be betrayed into the hands of the
Jewish leaders and the Gentiles. AND, before God could offer Jesus on the cross
Jesus had to be without sin, the “spotless Lamb of God.” Can any of this be said
of Kenneth Copeland? Setting aside just for the moment the insanity of
Copeland’s obvious lie,
does this deceiver consider himself just as qualified as
Jesus to do these things?
Who receives the glory when Copeland says that
God told him that he could have done the same thing that Jesus did? And if a
born again man was all that was required, then Copeland’s followers must
necessarily believe that they also could have done the same thing. Imagine, a
world full of born again “Satan whippers.” What a wonderful world this would be.
So why hasn’t Copeland put Satan in his place? Maybe because he doesn’t want to
hurt his father. Maybe because he can’t.
Was Copeland virgin born? Did
God prophesy about Copeland? Has Copeland suffered the things that were
necessary for the Messiah to suffer before going to the cross? Is Copeland
qualified to whip satan by being sinless? Do Copeland and all who follow him not
realize that innocent and pure blood had to be offered, sacrificed, in order to
defeat Satan and death and the grave and hell and eternal damnation? Do they not
see that being “born again” does not qualify anyone for Messiahship? And far and
above all that, do they not realize that Jesus came to do more than just defeat
Satan; He came to forgive sin. Does the blood of Jesus Christ which bought the
church mean absolutely nothing to these people? And does anyone care?
To
paraphrase John Owen; Whatever man thinks that he can do on his own that God
hath required is to make nothing of the cross of Jesus
Christ.
THE HOLY SPIRIT: A PARTNER IN ADULTERY
According
to Charisma magazine, Bishop Clarence McClendon is one of those lucky brothers
who has heard from the Holy Spirit concerning his marriage. He left his wife for
a younger woman because the Spirit told him to. Now isn’t that convenient? Read
the article made available on the web; it is a hoot. Arthur Blessitt had the
same word from God while carrying the cross around the world, Richard Roberts
had the same word while vacationing by himself in Florida, and the list could
probably go on and on. That’s typical of the Holy Spirit, isn’t it? If the Holy
Spirit tells you to leave your wife for a newer model then it can’t possibly be
adultery. And if God can not only condone but suggest adulterous behavior why
not gay marriage? Does anyone care that these men with flourishing ministries
are living in adultery and idolatry and teaching others to do the same by their
lifestyles?
When challenged by “brothers in Christ” (?) concerning his
doctrine and the doctrine of the majority of those who preach alongside him,
Paul Crouch angrily responded that these people are hung up on doctrine,
referring to doctrine as “doctrinal doo doo.” I heard this with my own ears,
brothers. Is your doctrine “doo doo?” Is the warning of Jesus Christ about false
teachers and false prophets doctrinal doo doo? Are Paul’s many warnings about
deceivers and false apostles and false teachers and false prophets doctrinal doo
doo? Is the incarnation doctrinal doo doo? Is the doctrine about the Trinity
doctrinal doo doo? When these people take the “holy” out of Holy Spirit and the
holy out of their daily lives and rob God of his infinite holiness by making Him
partner in adultery, does it bother you that you are standing shoulder to
shoulder with these liars?
THE WORD OF GOD: NO LONGER
IMPORTANT
Southern Baptists have always stood up for the inerrancy of the
Bible. The written word of God in its original manuscripts was flawless, without
error of any kind from Genesis to Revelation. The ancient manuscripts that exist
now provide us with a completely reliable record of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and
Greek texts. The canon of Scripture is closed. The Word of God is complete. God
has gifted his people with the person of the Holy Spirit to guide us as we study
and preach and teach from His word. Yet in this very area that is so vital and
precious to us, TBN again shows its disdain for truth. And we are sharing the
platform with them.
TOMMY TENNEY
One of the best selling authors in America and for a while at least on TBN is Tommy
Tenney. Tenney wrote a blockbuster book entitled “The God Chasers.” It was on
the New York Times bestseller list for a long time. He has since come out with a
“God Chasers For Youth” edition as well as several other books. In his book “The
God Chasers,” Tenney writes that the Bible is “dusty old love letters” and that
no one wants to hear from them anymore. He writes that “the Bible is where God
was, revelation is where he is now.” Not biblical revelation, but direct
revelation from God, separate from the Bible. If revelation is where God is now
then anyone can claim to have a “revelation” and who is there to question it? Is
it any wonder that false teachers, prophets, and so-called “apostles” can say
the most outlandish things and have their audience jump up and down and whoop
and holler? They have just heard a word directly from God. And a “new, fresh
word” I might add.
I saw a lady I know only as an acquaintance carrying
Tenney’s book and I asked her if she knew that Tenney was going to be in town
that weekend. She said that she was so disappointed to hear that and that Tenney
was her “man.” “I just love him so much.” Tenney has lulled the undiscerning
into believing that they no longer need to read the Bible for God’s guidance but
can be led by inner voices and feelings and “words” from anyone who comes to
town in a nice suit and great fanfare. Reading his book was one of the most
disturbing experiences I have had as a Christian. I not only read it, I re-read
it taking notes and studying Tenney’s theology (doctrinal doo-doo). Does it
matter? Does anyone care? I pity the church fathers who died while trying to
spread this boring old collection of “dusty love letters.” Don’t
you? *Since this post was originally published, Tenney has more or less been kicked to the curb.
Does anyone care that the Word of God is being perverted around the
world by the likes of Tenney, Hinn, Copeland, Osteen, and that idiot Jesse
Duplantis? Does it matter at all that men such as Copeland and Crouch are
antichrist? Yes, they deny the deity of Jesus Christ, which means by necessity
that they deny that He has come in the flesh (1 Jn.4:1-3; see www.equip.org,
“What’s wrong with the faith movement? Part two). Do our SBC leaders who
actually believe in the risen Lord Jesus Christ and his substitutionary
atonement think that these people are harmless? Does it matter to anyone that
the most influential people on TBN are blatant heretics. Or that the loudest
voices in our nation supposedly representing Christianity are those of televised
heretics? (T.D. Jakes was presented to America as our “next Billy
Graham?”)
THE DECEIVED AMONG US
Do we realize that many of
our Southern Baptist members believe that these people are wonderful, God-called
preachers? Does it matter that the names and faces of the most prominent leaders
in the SBC are blended in with the likes of these false teachers? Does it matter
to anyone that the reason so many believers think that TBN is legitimate
Christian television is because of the presence of a few SBC pastors? Does it
matter that people who are followers of Charles Stanley hear absolute garbage
after his broadcast and never miss a beat in their admiration of these “men of
God?”
I have talked with many people in our churches over the last thirty
years who think Robert Schuller is wonderful. They think that Benny Hinn is a
little unusual but nothing more than that. Our people go to Hinn crusades,
Copeland crusades, Joyce Meyer meetings, T.D. Jakes rallies, and give generously
to them. Does anyone care? They buy their tapes and books and other products
they sell at their meetings while giving to the local church continues to
fall.
False prophecy after false prophecy! False teaching after false
teaching. Bizarre antics! Bizarre stories! And a constant emphasis on money
instead of the holiness of God, the blood of Jesus, the Word of God, evangelism,
discipleship, suffering for the cause of Christ, living for the glory of God
rather than the pleasures of this world. And we are sharing the platform with
them. We are possibly and very likely, legitimizing the very people of whom
Christ said that on that day he will say to them, “Depart from Me, ye workers of
iniquity, for I never knew you.”
My brothers, just a few years ago you
voted to disassociate with the World Baptist Alliance citing its liberal
tendencies and whatever. I have asked several Baptists folk if they are familiar
with the WBA and not one, not one could tell me anything about this organization
because not one had heard about it until I brought it up. It does not make any
sense that you would be so concerned about being aligned with the WBA, an
organization that our people have never even heard of, when you are partnered
with the greatest purveyor of heresy in the history of the world, next to the
Roman church., and which most of our members are all too familiar with, TBN.
Why?
I hope someone in the SBC has bothered to read this letter. I hope
that you will prayerfully consider separating yourselves from this abomination
called TBN. You really need to ask yourselves if it is worth it. As many times
as we read in the Bible “do not be deceived,” and “do not let anyone deceive
you,” we should understand the ease with which our people can be deceived. We
also need to view this network as an enemy of the cross, an enemy of the truth,
over running with false and damnable theology.
I know you stand to lose viewers and money. But there are viable alternatives that I am sure
you are more aware of than I. And you may think you have a perfectly good
argument as to why you should stay on TBN (“we’re reaching more people with the
Good News”). But to be associated with this network that is now being rightly
referred to as a “circus” is to make nothing more than clowns out of our
brethren who supposedly love the truth of God’s word, His Son, and who seek His
glory and not their own. Paul Crouch is the “ringmaster” and our people are
jumping through his hoops.
Perhaps you should take some time to watch TBN
(I hate to think you already do) around the time your program airs. If you can
still feel clean of other men’s blood then …
In Christ and for
His glory,
Johnny T. Helms
SEBTS ‘94
P.S. I
can hear some of you now pointing to Paul in jail as he wrote to the church in
Philippi, 1:15-18. Please! Do you for one moment think that there is any
similarity between men who for whatever reason were actually preaching the
gospel and the heretics who are not actually preaching the gospel on TBN?
