ANOTHER CHURCH CONTINUES DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE (Friday Church News Notes, July 11, 2014, wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) - In the free eBook The Collapse of Separatism Among Fundamental Baptists, we document the slippery slope of change and compromise associated with the adaptation of Contemporary Worship Music. One example we give is Landmark Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, which used to be an “old-fashioned” fundamental Baptist church with biblical standards of music and dress and a stance against the modern Bible versions. In the 1990s the church took a turn away from its roots and at the heart of this change was music. In 1996, the church brought in a Campus Crusade band playing “high energy ‘50s and ‘60s rock and roll.” In 2001, Mat Holman became the pastor. The church’s web site announced that he was “a firm believer that church should be fun and on the edge.” No Scripture was given to support this philosophy. To document just how far Landmark Baptist has fallen from its past stance, consider that the David Crowder Band performed there in November 2009. Crowder co-founded University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, with Chris Seay, an emerging pastor who believes the Bible contains errors (Seay, Faith of My Fathers, pp. 81-86). He says: “I love the Bible, and I believe it’s perfect in every way IT NEEDS TO BE. But I serve a living God, not a canon” (p. 86). In January 2012, Crowder made a “surprise appearance” as worship leader for the send-off of Rob Bell at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan (“Rob Bell Received a Tearful Farewell,” Christian Post, Jan. 9, 2012). This was Bell’s final Sunday service at the church he founded 12 years earlier before launching out on a new venture. Crowder thus put his blessing on Bell’s rank heresies, including his denial that the Bible is the infallible Word of God and his rejection of eternal hell fire. In his 2011 book Love Wins, Bell preaches near-universalism, as well as a false god, a false christ, a false gospel, a false heaven, and a false hell. In a mere 10 years, Landmark Baptist has sped down the slippery slope to land in the dangerous waters of end-time apostasy.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:59:04 +0000
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