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“Take Heed” Ministries
January - June 2011
Dear
praying friends and supporters of ‘Take Heed’,
In my very last printed
‘News From The
Front’ (December 2010), on
page 2,
I wrote the following
concerning my planned annual review letter that was scheduled to start in
December 2011 (DV) –
“I wouldn’t be surprised if perhaps an
earlier ‘ministry update’ were to be issued”. Well, that ‘prophetic’ word
has turned out to be correct and so herewith is an update on what the Lord has
been turning my attention to over these past months.
Rick Warren: ‘Not fit
for purpose’
This
article was posted to the ministry web site on 4th January 2011 and
highlighted the complete absence of discernment that is a mark of Rick Warren
and his ‘ministry. I referred to a so-called ‘apologetics conference’ that Mr
Warren hosted at his church in December 2010 supposedly to equip believers to
be aware of deceptions and false teaching. Amongst his invited guest speakers
were Philip Yancey and Peter Kreeft. I have
previously written about Mr Yancey and his dangerous and unbiblical views on
the matter of homosexuality. In relation to Mr Kreeft,
a Roman Catholic, I have previously quoted some of the heresies from his book
‘Ecumenical Jihad’. This conference was not a matter of Mr Warren protecting
God’s ‘sheep’ from ‘wolves’ but rather of him throwing professing ‘sheep’ to
the ‘wolves’.
England: Don’t be
‘April-fooled’ by Todd Bentley
This
article was posted to the ministry web site on 2nd February 2011.
For 4-5 months back in 2008 a tattooed thug called Todd Bentley was hailed by
thousands in Lakeland, Florida as a great ‘healer’ and man of God [I
have used the strong word ‘thug’ because his so-called healing techniques
included kicking a woman in the face and kneeing a man in the stomach]. I and many other fellow-contenders
wrote articles that exposed this charlatan and his false claims for healing. The
wheels eventually came off the ‘bandwagon’ when news of his adultery with a
female member of the Lakeland team came to light and he subsequently divorced
his wife who incidentally suffered from ill-health. After a token period of
‘repentance’ during which he married ‘the other woman’ he once more embarked on
another series of ‘healing’ crusades. At the end of January Todd Bentley stated
via Twitter that a ‘ministry visit to England was ‘on’ for April and so I
issued this article by way of advance warning.
Rev Simon Henning
abuses ‘Thought for the Day’ slot
On
16th February the ‘Thought for the Day’ slot on Radio Ulster was
given by Simon Henning, minister of Ballyblack
Presbyterian Church near Newtownards. In it he
ridiculed those who believe in 6-day creation as revealed by God in Genesis and
instead trumpeted ‘theistic evolution’. Setting aside the pros and cons of
these conflicting views on origins the central issue was that this Radio slot
was never intended to be a platform for someone to directly insult people of
faith. In particular he very publicly showed his contempt for the beliefs of
fellow professing Christians. By doing so he abused the privilege of speaking
that morning. After a little research I discovered that Mr Henning, as well as
sharing a belief in ‘theistic evolution’ with ‘Sunday Sequence’ presenter
(Ex-Rev) William Crawley, also shares Mr Crawley’s sympathies on ‘issues gay’.
Reviewing the regular content of Mr Crawley’s ‘Sunday Sequence’ one could be
tempted to ask the BBC to rename it ‘Sleazy Sequence’.
Rob Bell and his book
‘Love Wins’
One
of the most malevolent spiritual influences today, particularly amongst young
professing Christians, has to be Rob Bell, who ‘pastors’ a church in Michigan.
He has visited the UK (including Northern Ireland) on a number of occasions and has
produced numerous DVDs and books that unfortunately gain a wide audience
through their availability in ‘Christian’ book shops. In April I posted a web
site article dealing with his latest book ‘Love
Wins’ in which he more or less states a belief in ‘Universalism’, the false
idea that everyone will be eternally blissful and that the idea of hell is not
something people should be worried about. On one blog I also wrote – Rob Bell continues to be ignorant of God’s supreme
attribute – His HOLINESS and in the light of that the words of Habbakuk 1:13 are relevant “Thou art of purer eyes than to
behold evil and canst not look upon iniquity” and so at the final judgment
there will be a separation between God’s elect and the reprobate as we learn in
Revelation 21:27 “And there shall in no way enter into it (eternal glory) anything that defileth,
neither he that worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they who are written in the Lamb’s book of
life”. Revelation 22:14-15 again confirms this separation “Blessed are they
that wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may
enter in through the gates into the city. For OUTSIDE are dogs, and sorcerers,
and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters and whosoever loveth
and maketh a lie”. Mr Bell
should perhaps take particular note of the last 6 words I have just quoted.
The menace of
‘CHRISLAM’
This
article was posted to the web site on 28th February 2011 and in it I
drew attention to a number of ‘churches’ in America that were seeking (quote)
‘an ecumenical reconciliation between Christianity and
Islam’ – what a ridiculous, Christ-insulting notion!
Thankfully one American lived up to his name and that was Alan Wisdom, director of the
Presbyterian Action committee and vice president for research and programs
at The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) who stated that
‘Islam should never be viewed as an equal to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Moreover, Qurans should never be placed next to God's Holy Word’.
Warren and Blair
‘waxing worse and worse’
An
article with this title was enclosed to all with my December 2009 News From The
Front and in it I detailed the unholy alliance that had been formed between
supposed ‘evangelical’, Rick Warren and practising Roman Catholic, Tony Blair.
On 10th March 2011 I reposted the article to the web site with an
‘Appendix’ that gave details of a report compiled by my fellow-contender, Roger
Oakland who attended a conference in March at Mr Warren’s church where Tony
Blair was his guest. They were jointly trumpeting a global ‘Peace Plan’ based
upon the need for all faiths to work together and to ‘do good’
together. This of course flies in the face of the true ‘peace’ that comes alone
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and is quite simply a satanic deception.
This idea echoes Mr Warrens oft stated belief that a second Reformation is
needed based this time upon deeds and not creeds – how foolish.
John Piper and Rick
Warren
In
my June 2010 News From The Front I wrote of my concern about the invite
extended by John Piper to Rick Warren to be one of the speakers at his October
2010 ‘Desiring God’ conference and how, in defence of the invite given, John
Piper said of Mr Warren ‘At root I
think he is theological and doctrinal and sound’.
My article then went on to state that in a recent
talk I had given on the Isle of Man I had reached a totally different and
opposite conclusion about Mr Warren to that expressed by Mr Piper. On 1st
May 2011 John Piper interviewed Rick Warren in his Saddleback church that was
being used by Mr Piper as a location for another ‘Desiring God’ conference.
According to a transcript of the interview prepared by Ken Silva, another
fellow-contender, Mr Piper focussed on Mr Warren’s book ‘The Purpose Driven
Life’ and made the following statement – ‘I’m appalled at the kinds of slanders… that
have been brought against this book by people whose methods of critique, if
they were consistently applied to the Bible, would undo it as the Word of God.
I really—I’m one of these reformed types and my type tends to get on your case
pretty often. And when I read the book, I thought, “What’s the issue here?” Put simply – if John Piper thinks that
there are no issues of concern about ‘The Purpose Driven Life’ (PDL) then that
itself is a major issue of concern. According to Ken Silva, Pastor John
MacArthur referred to Warren’s ‘gospel’ in the PDL as ‘an
inadequate gospel. That is a gospel that I will tell you will contribute to
apostasy’, Dr Michael Horton
stated ‘I believe that his message distorts the gospel and that he is
contributing to the human-centred pragmatism that is eroding the proper
ministry and mission of the church…His best-selling book, The Purpose-Driven Life, begins by
announcing that it’s not about you, but about God, and then the rest of the
book is about you’ and Dr
Gary Gilley wrote ‘He
claims commitment to the Scriptures then undermines them at almost every turn.’
Mr Piper is clearly out of
tune with the discernment expressed by these respected pastors/apologists.
In addition to these
articles and assessments I have presented ministry updates/reports in various churches
and have also fulfilled a number of preaching engagements. I am very pleased to
report that my health has been excellent with no occurrences of the tiredness
issue previously mentioned – to the many who have prayed specifically on this
matter I say a very grateful ‘thank you’.
In closing I should
like to mention some matters for prayer. Whilst attending the Balmoral Show at the Kings Hall I took the opportunity to
warn people who had been ‘canvassed’ by a stand offering a free stress test and
a book on ‘Dianetics’ that this was a ‘cover’ for the
cult of Scientology. A young man from a neighbouring stand was intrigued and we
got into conversation. He was no atheist, firmly believing in a creator God,
but uncertain about the exclusivity of Christ as the only Saviour of men. His
name is Jonathan and he gave me his
address to send a book on to him which I have done – please pray for him. Elliot Morley was one of the few MPs (albeit
negatively) to respond to
the creation videos sent to every MP back in 2002. I have written to him in
prison enclosing a book so do please pray for him that the Lord might soften
his heart at this very difficult time in his life. I covet your continued
prayers for my health and also for the ongoing ministry of ‘Take Heed’ that
doors will continue to open via meetings, media and the Internet to stand for
His truth. My thanks too go to all those who continue to faithfully support us
in a practical way – truly the Lord is faithful. Assuming that the already
failed 89 year old ‘prophet’ Harold Camping is wrong (for
the 3rd time)
about the world ending as we know it by 21st October I will write
again (DV)
in December.
Your
servant for Christ
Cecil
Andrews
“Take Heed” Ministries
PO Box 13, Ballynahinch, BT24 8AL
Tel./Fax 028 9756 5511
E- Mail takeheed@aol.com Web site http://www.takeheed.net