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Friday Church News Notes Hillsong at Thomas Road VOLUME 19, ISSUE 04 WAY OF LIFE JANUARY 26, 2018 FRIDAY CHURCH NEWS NOTES HILLSONG AT THOMAS ROAD Tomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded by the late Jerry Falwell, is hosting a Hillsong rock “worship” concert on April 20. Decades of disobedience and compromise have produced the frightful level of spiritual blindness required to accept Hillsong’s apostasy. Hillsong worship music began at Hillsong Church of Sydney, Australia, where the pastors are a husband-wife team, Brian and Bobby Houston, and where the worship leader was Darlene Zschech. Some years ago, Bobby published the video series “Kingdom Women Love Sex.” Tat was about the same time that Brian published his “You Need More Money” series on the subject of prosperity giving. Today Hillsong Church has branches in many parts of the world, and all of them are producing “worship” Thomas Road Baptist Church music. In 2014, the New York Times reported that Hillsong is “without a doubt the most infuential producers of worship music in Christendom” (“Megachurch with a Beat Lures Young Flock,” Sept. 9, 2014). Hillsong is radically ecumenical, incredibly worldly, and totally committed to Pentecostal Latter Rain heresy (e.g., gibberish as “tongues,” spirit slaying, prophesying, word of faith, women ...continued on next page CHINA DESTROYS CHURCH BUILDING Te following is excerpted from “Bomb destroys persecuted church,” China Aid, Jan. 9, 2018: “An explosion rang through the air earlier today as authorities bombed and demolished a serially persecuted church in China’s northern Shanxi province. Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, Shanxi was once a 17 million Yuan ($2,603,380 USD) unregistered church, paid for completely by the Christians who attended it. On Jan. 9, Chinese military police detonated explosives situated in underground worship halls beneath the church Screen grab of footage of the demolition of Golden Lampstand Church and proceeded to demolish its above-ground in Linfen city in northern Shanxi Province, Jan. 9, 2018. ...continued on next page ! PAGE 1 VOLUME 19, ISSUE 04 WAY OF LIFE JANUARY 26, 2018 HILLSONG AT THOMAS ROAD ....continued from front page pastors, ecumenical unity as a sign of end-time affiliated with Baptist Bible Fellowship International. revival). In July 2015, Hillsong joined hands with Its founding pastor, Jerry Falwell, broke ecumenical Pope Frances at the Convocation of the Renewal of ground among Independent Baptists by his the Holy Spirit at the Vatican. Hillsong worship affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church, leader Darlene Zschech said on her Facebook page, beginning in the 1970s. In 1986, he stated that “Tis is a celebration of unity and peace in the Roman Catholics made up the largest constituency Renewal of the Holy Spirit. Amazing days for the of his Moral Majority political organization. Falwell Body of Christ.” Anyone who thinks that people praised Pope John Paul II and endorsed Chuck who believe in baptismal regeneration and venerate Colson’s 1992 book, Te Body, which considered the Mary as the Queen of Heaven are in “the body of Catholic Church a part of “the body of Christ.” Christ,” doesn’t know the ABC’s of biblical truth. In Tomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University May 2016, Hillsong New York City hosted a are on the slippery slide of compromise that began Women’s Conference that featured, among other under Jerry Falwell’s direction. His compromise things, scantily-dressed ‘cheerleaders,’ an Elvis started with small steps, as it always does, but the impersonator, and a naked cowboy wearing only Word of God warns that “a little leaven leaveneth underwear, a cowboy hat, boots, and a guitar. Te the whole lump” (1 Cor. 5:6; Gal. 5:9). (For more on cowboy was Hillsong New York City’s own youth this see “Darlene Zschech and Hillsong” in the Te pastor, Diego Simla. Tomas Road Baptist Church, Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, a which is hosting Hillsong in April, is affiliated with free eBook available from www.wayofife.org.) the Southern Baptist Convention and was long CHINA DESTROYS CHURCH BUILDING ....continued from front page building, leaving it shattered. China’s military police has been under the direct control of the central government since the head of the public security bureau, which previously commanded it, was arrested last year. Tis indicates that the order to destroy the church came from China’s top officials instead of the less-powerful local authorities. Tis is not the frst time the church has faced persecution, however. China repeatedly cracks down on house churches, which are churches that refuse to register, ofen to opt out of government monitoring. Officials ofen prosecute such choices, however, and some of Golden Lampstand Church’s leaders have been imprisoned for one to seven years, simply for serving at their church. Te similar demolition of a Catholic church last year is prompting Christians to worry that the central government will begin ordering the mass destruction of church buildings nationwide as new religious regulations go into effect next month. Tese regulations grant the Chinese Communist Party increased power over religion, paving the way for escalated persecution. ... [Te church’s leaders were arrested in 2009 and spent from three to seven years in prison.]” ! PAGE 2 VOLUME 19, ISSUE 04 WAY OF LIFE JANUARY 26, 2018 TURKISH PROFESSOR CLAIMS KORAN FLOOD STORY COULD SUPPORT NOAH CALLING SON ON CELL-PHONE Te following is excerpted from “Turkish in which one of Noah’s sons, who was a disbeliever, Professor,” BreakingIsraelNews.com, Jan. 11, 2018: refused to come aboard the Ark. Te son climbed a “A Turkish professor has come up with an amazing mountain but as the foodwaters rose, he spoke to theory about Biblical Noah based on his his father and repented. ‘Te Koran says the waves understanding of the story as related in the Koran: were as high as mountains, so if Noah spoke with during the storm, conversation was impossible due his son, his son must be sitting on the top of another to the thunder and lightning so Noah kept in touch mountain,’ Ornek said in the televised interview. with his sons via cellular phone. Te professor ‘Te Koran says they spoke, but to talk between two reveals even more surprising details but the story is mountains with hundreds of kilometers apart, they no joke and has become the focus of religious must have had mobile phones, and Noah’s son must debate between secular and Islamic Turks. Yavuz have boarded an aerial vehicle to reach his father.’ Ornek, a lecturer at the Marine Sciences Faculty of Ornek explained his theory, saying that technologies Istanbul University, was invited to speak on Turkish were much more advanced 10,000 years ago than state-owned TRT television channel last Saturday most people realize. Noah, referred to as Nuh ibn on the subject of the food story, which has an entire Lamech ibn Methuselah in the Koran, also used chapter of the Koran dedicated to it. In most advanced technology to build an ark out of steel that respects, it is identical to the story as it appears in was powered by nuclear energy. Ornek also claimed the Bible, but Ornek’s take on the story differed that instead of bringing live animals onto the ark, greatly from both versions. Ornek was discussing Noah stocked it with one male and one female egg the section of the Koran’s version of the food story from every living species.” TRAFFIC IN ABORTED BABY ORGANS Te following is excerpted from “Government Raid Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences, agreed to settle Revealed Baby Bodies,” ChristianNewsWire.com, a lawsuit earlier this month for illegally selling baby Dec. 27, 2017: “Government investigators found body parts supplied by Planned Parenthood to four bodies, appearing to be second-trimester pharmaceutical companies and schools across infants, preserved in a Detroit cadaver warehouse America as well as 10 countries, making millions of owned by Arthur Rathburn. ... Liberty Counsel is dollars in proft. Te companies avoided further calling for an investigation into how these babies investigation and discovery by settling out of court. were obtained by Rathburn. ‘Rathburn wasn’t Te companies were forced to pay $7.785 million, running a charity,’ said Mat Staver, Founder and turn over more than $10,000 in laboratory Chairman of Liberty Counsel. ‘It’s possible these equipment and storage containers, and pay were aborted children. It is also very possible that $195,000 in civil penalties. Both companies must the illegal profting and trafficking of aborted cease doing business in California. Tese human organs is much more widespread than the companies created catalogs of baby body parts and public knows. Tese four children deserve an even ran ‘specials’ to sell to pharmaceutical investigation.’ ... Two other companies, DV companies and universities.” ! PAGE 3 VOLUME 19, ISSUE 04 WAY OF LIFE JANUARY 26, 2018 THE DWARFS OF AUSCHWITZ Giants: Te Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren grow like a fower. But ... I’ve never fantasised about a and Eilat Negev is the fascinated account of the Ovitz good fairy coming to double my height. Being a dwarf family, the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded. A is no punishment. Te difference in height does not Jewish dwarf named Shimson Eizik (Samson Isaac) diminish my pleasure. Our life is as worthwhile as Ovitz (1889-1980) fathered 10 children, seven of anyone else’s. ... Naturally we’d like to be no different which were dwarfs (fve girls and two boys). Te than you, but if this is the shape God destined for us, seven formed an entertainment group called the we have no complaints against Him” (Giants: Te Lilliputs and made a living at this in Romania prior to Dwarfs of Auschwitz, Kindle loc.
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