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Hayford. More information follows in another post.
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>BEWARE OF JACK HAYFORD
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>March 28, 2006 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information
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>Jack Hayford is the influential Pentecostal pastor of Church on the
>Way in Van Nuys, California, and the author of many popular books
>and contemporary praise songs, including "Majesty."*
>
>Christianity Today magazine calls Hayford "The Pentecostal Gold
>Standard" (Christianity Today, July 2005), but when his theology and
>practice is placed under the microscope we find that his position is
>not the untarnished gold of Scripture but the rust and corrosion of
>extra-biblical "revelation."
>
>Speaking at St. Louis 2000, for example, Hayford told of how his
>daughter approached him one day with a concern about her "tongues
>speaking." She was afraid that she was speaking mere gibberish, but
>he encouraged her that the believer must first learn to speak in
>baby tongues before he speaks in adult tongues. (I attended this
>conference with press credentials and heard Hayford say this.) There
>is absolutely no Bible support for such nonsense and it denies the
>Pentecostal's claim that the Bible is his sole authority for faith
>and practice. Biblical tongues-speaking is not something that be
>learned; it is supernatural gift and there is not one example in the
>New Testament of someone learning how to speak in tongues.
>
>At the Promise Keepers Clergy Conference in 1996 Hayford urged the
>crowd of 40,000 to "dance in the Lord," saying that he learned the
>dance in Africa and that later the Lord said to him, "May I have
>this dance?" An eyewitness called it "an African witch-doctor dance"
>(Bruce Caldwell, "Following in the Footsteps of the Apostate
>Presbyterians," Christian News, March 11, 1996). Nowhere in the
>Bible do we find God dancing with His people. Further, the Bible
>plainly warns, "Learn not the way of the heathen" (Jer. 10:2).
>
>Hayford claims that he got his radical position on ecumenism
>directly from God. He says that in 1969, as he approached a large
>Catholic church in Southern California, God spoke to him and
>instructed him not to judge Roman Catholicism. He says he heard a
>message from God saying, "Why would I not be happy with a place
>where every morning the testimony of the blood of my Son is raised
>from the altar?" ("The Pentecostal Gold Standard," Christianity
>Today, July 2005) Based upon this "personal revelation," Hayford
>adopted a neutral approach to Catholicism, yet upon the authority of
>the Bible I know that the message that Hayford heard was demonic.
>The atonement of Jesus Christ is NOT glorified on Roman Catholic
>altars. The Mass is an open denial of the doctrine of the
>once-for-all atonement that we find in the book of Hebrews. Note
>what the Vatican II Council said about the Mass: "For in it Christ
>perpetuates in an unbloody manner the sacrifice offered on the
>cross, offering himself to the Father for the world's salvation
>through the ministry of priests" (The Constitution on the Sacred
>Liturgy, "Instruction on the Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery,"
>Intro., C 1, 2, p. 108). This is only a small part of Rome's wicked
>heresies, and it is impossible that God would encourage Jack Hayford
>to look upon the Roman Catholic Church in any sort of positive,
>non-judgmental manner. If Hayford based his theology about the Roman
>Catholic Church strictly upon the Bible, he would never fall for such delusion.
>
>Hayford has acted on this "personal revelation" by yoking up with
>Roman Catholic leaders in conferences throughout the world. For
>example, he joined hands with thousands of Roman Catholics,
>including hundreds of Catholic priests and nuns, at the North
>American Congress on the Holy Spirit & World Evangelization in St.
>Louis in 2000.
>
>Hayford was a featured speaker at John Wimber's 1991 conference in
>Sydney, Australia, joining hands in that forum with Catholic priests
>Tom Forrest and Raniero Cantalamessa and Catholic layman Kevin
>Ranaghan. Speaking at Indianapolis '90 Forrest said he praises God
>for purgatory. Cantalamessa was the papal preacher at the Vatican.
>Ranaghan claims that the Roman Catholic Church alone contains the
>fullness of God and truth and that the Pope is the infallible head
>of all churches. Hayford put his stamp of approval upon these men's
>heresies by appearing with them and treating them as if they were
>true men of God.
>
>Hayford is on the Board of Regents for Melodyland Christian Center,
>which has a close relationship with Roman Catholicism. A fellow
>board member is Roman Catholic Fred Ladenius, author of Amazing John
>XXIII, a book fully supportive of the Pope by that name, a Pope who
>died with a Rosary in his hand and prayers to Mary and Catholic
>"saints" on his lips.
>
>Hayford also has a close relationship with heretic Robert Schuller.
>He spoke at Schuller's Men's Conference at the Crystal Cathedral in
>March 1995 and in January 2005 and endorsed Schuller's 1996
>autobiography, My Soul's Adventure with God. In 1982 Schuller
>published Self-Esteem the New Reformation in which he twisted Bible
>theology to conform to his heretical humanistic psychology.
>According to Schuller, To Schuller, sin is "any act or thought that
>robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem"
>(Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, p. 14). Schuller's christ is
>"self-esteem incarnate" (p. 135). His new birth is to be "changed
>from a negative to a positive self-image" (p. 68). His hell "is the
>loss of pride that naturally follows separation from God" (p. 14).
>To Schuller, the most destructive thing is to call men lost sinners
>and thereby injure their self-esteem (Christianity Today, Oct. 5,
>1984). Schuller is a universalist who believes that all people are
>the children of God. (For more about Schuller see "Evangelicals and
>Robert Schuller" at
><http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/evangelicalsschuller.htm>http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/evangelicalsschuller.htm
>)
>
>Friends, beware of Jack Hayford and beware of those undiscerning
>Christian bookstores that sell his books. There is great spiritual
>danger in the average Christian bookstore today.
>
>* The song "Majesty," lovely though it is, promotes the unscriptural
>"kingdom now" philosophy, in which Christians are thought to be able
>to exercise kingdom authority over sickness and the devil in this
>present hour. This is what the words "kingdom authority" refer to in
>Hayford's song.
>
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