Alan Dawson jailed

Alan Dawson was on Friday 25th September, 2015, jailed for 16 years, at Manchester Crown Court. Charges against him included the rape of a child. Dawson was a Sunday school teacher at the Mauldeth Road Gospel Hall, Manchester. details may be read by  clickinghere 
 No amount of child protection will prevent this kind of offence. These offences occurred in the home of the victim or in the offender's home, and not on church premises.

The first security point is in reception to the fellowship. Questions must be asked about conversion. I do not believe for one moment that those genuinely born again practice this kind of behaviour.
Dawson was one of those who crept in unawares.

Those who are assaulted by church leadersor others should not discuss the matter with other church leaders. They need to be brave and to report it to the police. A crime has been committed and the victim is not therefore taking the offender to court. This is the responsibilty of the Crown Prosecution Service.

There are those among us who think they are above the law and seek to punish any complaing victim. The law is changing and those who suppress victims in any way will themselves be punished.

RWC Gospel Outreach. Or Paisleyism uncovered

RWC Gospel Outreach

Bible believing Christians need to be wary of this organisation. It is the Rugby World Cup Gospel Outreach organisation, owned and run by the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. Its main purpose is to promote the FPC worldwide.

FPC  was founded by Ian Paisley of Ulster in 1951. Paisley held tenaciously to Reformed Theology which is not the theology of the New Testament. Paisley was a man full of aggression and his organisation follows this line.  The gospel of RWCGO is therefore seriously erroneous. It is steeped in Calvinism.

The RWCGO is advertising for volunteers to assist in their evangelisation of the  rugby crowds.

They will presumably subscribe to the regulations stated below.

MISSION BOARD

The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster Mission Board was created by Presbytery in March 1974 to oversee the entire process of the selection, commissioning, and support of the denomination’s missionaries. It is made up of Ministers and Elders appointed by Presbytery and three members from the Missionary Council.

This step was taken by the church because of the pressing need to send our missionaries from our own church and not under ecumenical and compromised interdenominational missionary societies. There were clear indications that many of the missionary societies were opening their fellowship to Charismatic influences and practises.

There was another pressing reason for creating such a board. As Bible-believing Presbyterians we believe that the doctrine, government, and the stand of the Free Presbyterian Church-and especially its evangelistic, Christ-centred grasp of the Reformed faith-should be reproduced in the churches our missionaries pioneer. The idea of their going forth to establish interdenominational independent, or congregational churches, whose doctrinal basis is far from the one to which we subscribe in the Westminster Confession of Faith, was not what we stood for at home.

Until death do us part

For better or for worse

….Thus the Lord Jesus permitted divorce in the sense of separation from an unfaithful wife (see Jer 3.8), but banned remarriage, labelling it adultery. In essence He was redefining the meaning of divorce. It is a separation, not a disannulling of the marriage bond and, therefore, not a licence to remarry.  ̶   J Gibson; Believers Magazine ; July 2015

Gibson’s use of Jeremiah 3: 8 implies that God was a bigamist. The verse has nothing to do with the normal marital state between a man and a woman.

The charge that the Lord permitted divorce in any sense  is obscene. Malachi 2: 16 reads ,For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away 

Most of us who are married probably, at our marriage, gave assent to the statement below.

I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have  and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

These words express what marriage is about. Therefore to renounce them at a later date and walk away from one’s spouse is treachery and mocks God. it is immaterial that it has not been a legal divorce.

Gibson, who does not believe the Bible, relies on a depraved parody of Scripture when he refers to “except for sexual immorality” in Matt, 19: 9. Lusting after a woman in one’s heart is sexual immorality, so there will not be many couples left living together where this principle is applied.
Scripture gives utterly no ground for the spouse to separate. It is the unbelieving spouse who will depart. 

This writer has been married for 53 years. Of course there have been tears along the way