Sharan,

There are many DRC churches in South Africa who are dying a slow death and are opting to unite with the RCC to resuscitate themselves. It’s all part of the great apostasy the Bible speaks about. Politely ask your pastor to instead of preaching a sermon one Sunday to give his testimony of how he was saved. Make sure to listen very carefully. It all started with lighting candles and rapidly advanced to more serious errors, like the “stations of the cross.” I’m sorry to say this but the “susters” will always be the first to introduce heresies in the churches. Satan targeted Eve and not Adam when he deceived mankind and plunged the entire human race in sin and death (1 Tim. 2:14). And, yes, the men are a bunch of wimps because they are scared to rebuke their wives for doing things in the church they are not supposed to do.

In our small coastal town the Dutch Reform Church has more and more `emergent` traits. Apart from that it seems the `contemplative` approach is finding inroads. The `susters` are very excited to present the `sewe stasies van Christus se lyding (lydingsweek? -Lent?) All the chairs will be removed and seven wooden cubicles erected on the floor. Then all the churches in the area are invited to come and walk them `contemplatively` The Catholic Church is again invited! They gladly participated in a number of `unity` sermons already presented from his Dutch Reform Church. Does anyone of you know of another `seven stations` planned for `lent` in other Dutch Reformed Churches?

I go to a Dutch Reformed church in Tucson and this past year we did a “stations of the cross” event for Good Friday service. As a former Catholic, I cringed and avoided it altogether. But then I’m not sure why we’re all doing “Easter” and Christmas either since both are pagan. We should be celebrating the resurrection on a daily basis!

Brian McNamee

Making an alliance with a person and compromising doctrine for the sake of alliances are two diametrically different things. False doctrine can pave the way to hell whereas as good king would probably not be able to accomplish such a feat.

In reading aback through the comments, one can only wonder about people like “mike” who are undoubtedly sincere and his pastor who is serving the Lord has or will do in light of this event.

Blind loyalty to any human being or movement is an affront to our Lord and Savior.

Anyone remember Chuck Smith on stage with Kathryn Kulhman?

Lest you think this problem with Chuck Smith is only recent.

As a matter of fact, i was watching a video of an early service at Costa Mesa..
The group “Love Song” was introduced by both Chuck Smith and Katherine Kuhlman..
They both came from the Four Square movement..

It has since been removed from http://www.calvarychapel.com (probably from concerns) but is still used as the favicon (this is the tiny picture next to the ‘www.calvarychapel.com’ part).

Mason/Knight logos are very common in calvary’s. Here is another one:

http://www.calvaryccm.com