Beware of John Hagee
By Bro. David Cloud
October 8, 1999 - David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143. Send e-mail: fbns@wayoflife.org
Visit To The National Quartet Convention
In September, I attended the National Quartet Convention (NQC) with press credentials. It was held in Louisville, Kentucky, and I stopped by there on the way from Oklahoma to meetings in New York. After writing a report on Southern Gospel Music last year, I was contacted by the executive director of the National Quartet Convention. He commended me for getting my facts right in the article, but he said that he disagrees with my position on Christian music. He said he believes music is neutral and that any type of music can be used to glorify God. He challenged me to attend the convention this year to re-examine Southern Gospel.
The popularity of Southern Gospel quartet music is evident by the large crowd that gathered for the NQC. There were 21,000 people attending the Thursday night I was there. Unlike many ecumenical meetings I have attended, the atmosphere was quite conservative. (Of course, the majority of the people were middle-age or older.) It was refreshing to see that a large percentage of the women were clothed modestly in nice dresses. Most of the men also were clothed conservatively. Very few wore long hair or earrings or tattoos or that type of thing. This definitely was not the "Christian rock" crowd!
One of the speakers at the National Quartet Convention was JOHN HAGEE. In 1975, he had resigned as pastor of a charismatic church because of his immorality. He then became pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. After his wife divorced him, Hagee married a young woman from the former church (Calvary Contender, June 15, 1994). Hagee is frequently featured on such radically unscriptural charismatic forums as Trinity Broadcasting Network and the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International. His honorary degree is from Oral Roberts University. Hagee teaches a "Two Covenant" theology that claims Jews are saved by keeping the Mosaic law while Gentiles are saved by faith in Christ.
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