Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:12 (King James Bible)
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, JACKSONVILLE
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Trinity Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida, which has long been
associated with Southwide Baptist Fellowship, is another example of a
former separatist Baptist church that is moving rapidly into the
contemporary, emerging sphere. The church is pastored by Tom Messer.
Changes were evident ten years ago and the pace of change has increased
ever since.
THE CONTEMPORARY DIRECTION OF TRINITY BAPTIST
The following was published in Friday Church News Notes, October 7, 2005:
We have been aware for some time of
the contemporary direction that Trinity Baptist Church of Jacksonville,
Florida, has taken under the pastorate of Tom Messer.
Former pastor Bob Gray led the
church out of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1960s. I recall his
testimony about that during one of his sermons at Tennessee Temple when
I was a student there in the mid-1970s. In those days, Trinity was a
fundamentalist church and had high standards for sacred music and
separation from error, but that is no longer the case.
A friend sent the following information:
“I wanted to share some sad
information with you. As I visited the Trinity Baptist website, I found
them doing what Dan Lucarini refers to as ‘blended’ song services.
Bryant Shipton is referred to as the ‘worship pastor.’ The two songs
that I heard were ‘Lord Reign in Me’ by Brenton Brown of the Vineyard
U.K. and ‘Call on Jesus’ by Nicole C. Mullen. Over the last two Sundays
they have used ‘Rise Up and Praise Him’ by Paul Balouche, ‘I Am friend
of God’ by the non-Trinitarian Philips, Craig and Dean, and ‘Shout to
the Lord’ by the charismatic Darlene Zschech. When you see them using
these radically ecumenical groups and musicians, it is obvious that they
are headed away from their former position” (first printed in October
7, 2005).
It is important to understand that a
move toward contemporary worship music is not a mere change in music.
It is accompanied by a change in a church’s overall philosophy. In the
case of Trinity Baptist, Pastor Messner is a prominent member of the
“progressive” wing of the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, with its New
Evangelical philosophy, a move toward a more positive focus, a move away
from separatism, a tolerance of error and worldliness not formerly
tolerated.
In 1996, a mere nine years earlier,
Southwide Baptist Fellowship, meeting at Trinity Baptist in
Jacksonville, published a statement warning against Promise Keepers and
its “unholy music.” How quickly things have changed! Today Trinity uses
that very music, but if it was unholy in 1996 it is unholy today.
Trinity Baptist epitomizes what is happening in large numbers of independent Baptist churches.
Of course, another great problem,
perhaps even more fundamental, is the Quick Prayerism methodology that
has always permeated the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, as well as many
other groups of IFB churches. Through the Quick Prayerism program a
church becomes populated with unregenerate members and loses its
spiritual conviction. (See “Fundamental Baptists and Quick Prayerism,” a
free eBook available at the Way of Life web site -- www.wayoflife.org.)
JERRY FALWELL AT TRINITY
Jerry Falwell spoke at the 51st
Southwide Baptist Fellowship, October 22-25, 2006, at Trinity Baptist
Church. This is evidence of Southwide’s deeply compromised direction and
the fact that it has left its original moorings.
As a student at Tennessee Temple in
the 1970s I attended three Southwide conferences, and there was no
contemporary music, no modern Bible versions, and no sympathy for
ecumenism and New Evangelicalism. All of that has gone by the wayside,
though, and the current leaders are to blame.
Tom Messer, the pastor of Trinity,
was the host of the 2006 conference, and the speakers included David
Bouler (Highland Park Baptist Church, Chattanooga, TN), Dino Pedrone
(New Testament Baptist Church, Miami, FL), Gary Coleman (Lavon Drive
Baptist Church, Garland, TX), Gordon Godfrey (Marcus Pointe Baptist
Temple, Pensacola, FL), George Grace (First Bible Baptist Church,
Rochester, NY), Tim Lee (evangelist), Bradley Price (King’s Way Baptist
Church, Concord, NC), Jerry Vines (former pastor of the SBC First
Baptist Church, Jacksonville, FL), Jerry Walls (Southside Baptist
Church, Warner Robins, GA), and Johnny Pope (Christchurch Baptist
Fellowship, Houston, TX).
The music was led by Mike Speck.
His choral book “Everlasting Praise” features many songs that are on the
CCLI list of top 25 contemporary “praise and worship” songs in America,
including “Shout to the Lord” by the radical ecumenist and charismatic
rocker/pastor Darlene Zschech.
Jerry Falwell represented
Southwide’s new direction and philosophy. In the late 1970s he formed
the Moral Majority, and by February 1986 he told Christianity Today that Catholics made up the largest constituency (30%). In his autobiography Strength for the Journey,
Falwell referred to the “Catholic brothers and sisters in the Moral
Majority” (p. 371). Falwell was one of the speakers at the April 1980
“Washington for Jesus” Rally. Fellow speakers included Catholic priests
John Bertolucci, John Randall, and Michael Scanlon, self-esteem guru
Robert Schuller, and a host of radical Charismatics, including Jim
Bakker of PTL, Pat Robertson of the 700 Club, and Demos Shakarian of the
Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International.
In an interview with the National Catholic Register,
May 9, 1982, Falwell listed Pope John Paul II as one of the two
“greatest men in my lifetime.” He did not give any warning about the
pope’s false gospel that is cursed of God (Gal. 1:6-8). In fact, Falwell
made the amazing and ridiculous statement that Roman Catholics accept
“the new birth experience.” Falwell endorsed Chuck Colson’s 1992 book, The Body,
which urged evangelicals to join forces with Roman Catholics and
charismatics. Colson said, “...the body of Christ, in all its diversity,
is created with Baptist feet, charismatic hands, and Catholic ears--all
with their eyes on Jesus” (World, Nov. 14, 1992).
Billy Graham was the commencement speaker at Falwell’s Liberty University in 1997, and in the October 1995 issue of the National Liberty Journal
Falwell praised Graham for his “long and faithful ministry.” Billy
Graham, who accepted degrees from Catholic colleges and said the
Catholic gospel is the same as his own; who has turned thousands of
converts over to apostate churches; who thinks the previous pope was a
great evangelist; who believes there is special power in infant baptism;
who doubts that hell is a place of literal fiery torment; who invites
Catholic bishops onto his platform to bless those who come forward at
his invitations; who praises Christ-denying Modernists; who has promoted
practically every perverted Bible version to appear in the last five
decades--Billy Graham has had a faithful ministry?
This statement is evidence of Jerry
Falwell’s spiritual blindness, which was the result of his downward
spiral through wrong associations (1 Cor. 15:33), and it was sad to see
Southwide Baptist Fellowship honoring such a man. “Can two walk
together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3).
THE BOB GRAY AFFAIR
The following is excerpted from “Preacher Helps” #93 by Evangelist Don Boys <DBoysphd@aol.com>:
“A November 11, 2007, report on
First Coast News in Jacksonville revealed that an audio recording has
been discovered that supports the molested victims of Dr. Bob Gray who
died recently of a heart attack! The husband of one of the victims made
the recording a couple of weeks before Gray was arrested in May of 2006.
Both the husband and his wife attended Trinity Christian Academy and
they are not part of the civil suit or demanding money from the church.
The husband said, ‘I want people to understand we’re not out to take a
ministry down.’ Present at the meeting were some of his family members,
Trinity pastor Tom Messer, and two Trinity leaders, including a deacon.
All knew that the meeting was
recorded. Ann Steward, now a North Carolina pastor’s wife, and former
member of Trinity was featured on the newscast and repeated what she
told me and my wife: She was molested by Gray many times while a young
child, and at age 21, went to Tom Messer, hoping to expose the truth.
She told him about the incidents, but her words were twisted to ‘lie to
the congregation.’ Ann told me that on the Sunday night following her
meeting with Messer, the church was told that Gray had committed an
‘indiscretion that was neither sexual nor immoral,’ suggesting to
gullible members that nothing serious happened.
And that is the mantra that has
been shouted (or whispered) at Trinity since 1992. Ann told Jeannie
Blaylock (who has been incredibly fair) of First Coast News, ‘It was
just a cover-up.’ It was supposed to be church discipline, but it was a
farce and fraud. Dennis and Pat Cassell, former longtime Trinity members
and employees at Trinity Academy, were also featured on the newscast.
The Cassells told me that they resigned from Trinity and walked out when
it was obvious that Pastor Messer was manipulating the events to cover
up ‘Gray’s sin and to mitigate the church’s legal exposure.’ Pat
Cassell, told First Coast News, ‘The victims are vindicated. The kids
are vindicated. Tom [Messer] knew and covered it up for years.’ Dennis
Cassell says, ‘The truth is finally out and that’s what we’ve been
praying for many years.’ He was Trinity’s coach.”
MUSIC DETERIORATING AT TRINITY BAPTIST
The following is by Jeff Royal <jeffroyal5@bellsouth.net>, January 29, 2010:
“I visited Trinity Baptist Church
in Jacksonville several weeks ago where Pastor Tom Messer is pastor.
What concerned me was the music. They opened with a jazzed up version of
‘To God Be the Glory’ and I could not follow the worship leader Jason
Cross although I tried. It was sung very fast and choppy and had a whole
new chorus inserted in the song that supposedly made it more
meaningful. They next led with the celebration choir and worship team in
‘Let the Worshippers Arise’ by the Pentecostal group Philips, Craig,
and Dean. They followed that with ‘Lord, I Offer My Life to You’ by Don
Moen of Integrity music. In my opinion, Trinity has succumbed to and
completely bought into CCM as part of their worship services. Of course,
this change has been going on for several years now. They just didn’t
decide a few weeks ago to embrace CCM.
The people in general are very
friendly at Trinity. Something I’m sad to say is lacking at many
fundamental IB churches today. Please pray for Pastor Messer and the
leadership at Trinity Baptist. In my opinion, they are headed down a
dangerous road. While introducing a choir performance, Jason Cross
mentioned Lou Giglio in no less than glowing terms. Giglio in my opinion
is from the ‘emerging’ church camp and Pastor Messer should know better
even if his worship leader doesn’t. I’m reminded of the wise words of
the late evangelist Gordon Sears who said, ‘When the standard of music
is lowered, then the standard of dress is also lowered. When the
standard of dress is lowered, then the standard of conduct is also
lowered. When the standard of conduct is lowered, then the sense of
value in God’s truth is lowered’ (Songfest newsletter, April 2001).”
TRINITY BAPTIST YOKES WITH SBC BRIDGE BUILDER ED STETZER
Trinity Baptist Church’s September
2010 Church Life Conference featured a video message from Southern
Baptist bridge builder and rock & roll lover Ed Stetzer, head of the
Southern Baptist Convention’s LifeWay research department.
Stetzer holds to the “in
non-essentials liberty” philosophy, despises separatism, and associates
with pretty much anybody and everybody. He is a bridge to the “broader
church” that is filled to the brim today with ancient and end-times
heresies (such as baptismal regeneration, popery, Mariolatry,
sacramentalism, anti-Trinitarianism, universalism, Catholic
contemplative mysticism, kingdom now reconstructionism, charismaticism,
theistic evolution, fallible inspiration of Scripture, panentheism, the
non-judgmental male/female “Shack” god, and Christian homosexuality).
As far as I know, Stetzer , as a
“conservative evangelical,” doesn’t hold to these heresies, but he is a
bridge to the broader “evangelical church” where an individual can
easily be influenced by any and all of these. (Most of these things are
represented in any LifeWay Bookstore.)
Consider some of Stetzer’s direct associations.
He is closely affiliated with Mark
Driscoll, who is “culturally liberal” (e.g., ushering in the New Year
through champaign dance parties), hates the doctrine of the
pre-tribulational Rapture, and promotes Catholic contemplative
mysticism, among other things. Stetzer is affiliated with fellow
Southern Baptist Rick Warren, who in turn is closely affiliated with
many New Agers and universalists (e.g., Tony Blair, Mehmet Oz, Daniel
Amen, Mark Hyman, and Leonard Sweet) and promotes Catholic contemplative
mysticism. Stetzer is non-critically affiliated with the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association, who in turn is affiliated with the papacy,
praises the pope, and has turned thousands of “converts” over to the
Catholic Church.
Stetzer is also affiliated with the
most liberal of emergents, who deny the infallible inspiration of
Scripture, the substitutionary atonement, a literal Hell, and many other
fundamentals of the faith. Though Stetzer criticizes their heresies, he
does so in gentle terms and refuses to disassociate from them. For
example, Stetzer participates in Shapevine, an emerging church blog that
features liberal emergents such as Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Sally
Morganthaler, Alan Hirsch, and Leonard Sweet. Shapevine is called “a
global community of collaborators”; and “conservative Southern Baptists”
like Stetzer are right in the middle of this unscriptural collaboration
(Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; 2 Timothy 3:5).
By affiliating with bridge builder
Ed Stetzer, Independent Baptist pastor Tom Messer is facilitating a
bridge between his people and the “broader church,” and he will be
accountable to God for those who cross that bridge and become deceived
by the wiles of the devil.
Paul Chappell is also somewhat
affiliated with bridge builder Ed Stetzer, though his contract with
Stetzer and LifeWay for his survey of Independent Baptist churches and
through his affiliation with Clayton Reed (they co-authored the book Church Still Works) who promotes Stetzer’s blog and has interviews with him.
Sexton and Chappell and those who
are committed to their model of ministry facilitate the evangelical
bridge builders not only by their carelessness in associations but also
by their positivist philosophy whereby they don't issue clear warnings
against this type of thing and whereby they malign men who do issue
clear warnings.
The lines are being erased; the
edges blurred; because biblical separation and clear reproof of error
and compromise is taking a back seat to church growth, evangelism, and
missions, all of which are fundamental to the cause of Christ, but none
of which are acceptable excuses for disobeying God’s Word.
TRINITY SPEAKER PASSIONATE ABOUT CHRISTIAN ROCK
Trinity Baptist College’s annual
Church Life Student Conference for 2011 featured a speaker who is
passionate about Christian rock. On his web site, Tony Nolan says he is
“an outspoken advocate of Contemporary Christian Music” and “partners
regularly in concert and conferences with rockers such as Third Day,
Reliant K, SuperTones, Pillar, Skillet, Delirious, and Toby Mac.
Nolan also has a great admiration
for Billy Graham, the grand master of spiritual compromise and
ecumenical evangelism. In his blog for October 8, 2010, Nolan described a
recent visit with Graham and George Beverly Shea.
Another speaker at Trinity’s Church
Life conference was Greg Locke, who also speaks at the Gospel Light
Youth Conference in Walkertown, North Carolina. Gospel Light Baptist
Church pastored by Bobby Roberson has a reputation of being an
old-fashioned, sin-hating, separated Bible-believing Baptist church, but
Locke’s association with Christian rockers is a spiritual disease that
will spread if it is not dealt with.
I hope I am wrong, but have serious
doubts that the necessary separation will happen, though, because
Roberson preaches at Clarence Sexton’s Friendship Conferences and thus
apparently shares Sexton’s wrong-headed philosophy that for the sake of
evangelism, independent Baptists should associate together regardless of
the various “secondary” issues that divide them today, one of those
issues being contemporary music.
TRINITY BAPTIST PUTS OUT FULL-BLOWN CHRISTIAN ROCK ALBUM
Trinity Baptist Church released its
first full-blown Christian rock album in May 2011 by the in-house
praise & worship band ChurchLife. The songs were written by members
of the church and a faculty member of Trinity Baptist College (http://www.tbc.edu/pages/page.asp?page_id=125112).
Our extensively-documented report
“The Transformative Power of CCM” demonstrates the reason why
contemporary music changes not only the stance, but the very soul and
character of a church. The transformative power lies in the music’s
philosophy as well as in the sensual music itself. We have seen many
former fundamentalist churches changed in the last 15 years, and
contemporary music is always involved, though it is not the only force
at work in these transformations. I am convinced that it is spiritual
lukewarmness and carnality that allows the CCM to enter, but the music
acts within that atmosphere as a powerful transformative agent to carry
the church far from its original principles and vision toward the
“broader church” where ancient and end-times heresies abound.
TRINITY’S CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP LEADER
Trinity’s worship leader, Jason
Cross, illustrates the danger of messing with contemporary music. It
puts the church into association with treacherous spiritual waters
filled with ancient and end-time heresies, as we have documented in The Transformational Power of Contemporary Praise Music and The Foreign Spirit of Contemporary Worship Music, which are available in DVD and eVideo formats from Way of Life -- www.wayoflife.org.
Cross links to men and churches and
organizations such as Mark Driscoll, Getty Music, Stuart Townend, Tim
Hughes, Tommy Walker, Ed Stetzer Matt Redman, Saddleback Church,
Willowcreek, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, Granger Community Church, and
Ancient Future Worship.
We have dealt with the spiritual/doctrinal dangers represented by these in books such as The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians and What Is the Emerging Church?
Take Stuart Townend, for example.
Townend is charismatic in theology and radically ecumenical in
philosophy, supporting the Alpha program which bridges charismatic,
Protestant, and Roman Catholic churches. As such he is a builder of the
apostate one-world “church.” He is a member of Church of Christ the King
in Brighton, U.K. and supports the “extraordinary manifestations of the
Spirit,” which refers to the demonic/fleshly charismatic mysticism such
as nonsensical ecstatic “tongues,” spirit slaying, holy laughter, and
shaking. Townend is holding hands with the “broader church” in all of
its facets and heresies and end-time apostasies, and Townend’s stated
objective in writing “hymn-like” contemporary songs is ecumenism.
He is doubtless sincere in this, but he is sincerely and decidedly and dangerously wrong.
Townend is a rock & roller, pure and simple. In his blog he says
that he doesn’t go home and put on a hymns album, because this is not
“where I’m at musically at all.” He wants to use the softer CCM to bring
“traditional churches” into association with the “broader church.”
Consider Granger Community Church,
which is recommended by Jason Cross through his prominent link to their
web site. This church in Granger, Indiana, featured Beatles music as
their 2007 Christmas theme. Pastor Tim Stevens said: “With Across the Universe currently in the theaters and the new Beatles-themed Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas called Love, the Beatles are as hot as ever. Using the music of the Beatles we will be telling the Christmas story all December.
And we’ve been getting great feedback from music lovers of all generations” (http://www.leadingsmart.com/leadingsmart/2007/11/let-it-bechrist.html/).
They advertised it as “Let it
Be...Christmas -- A Story Told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul,
George and Ringo.” Granger Community Church is engaged in wretched
spiritual adultery and walks in blatant, presumptuous disobedience to
James 4:4 and 1 John 2:15-16.
Trinity Baptist Church has built bridges to dangerous waters and the ensuing changes are occurring with breathtaking speed.
TRINITY BAPTIST HOSTS ROMAN CATHOLIC CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ARTIST
On November 15, 2012, Trinity
Baptist is hosting a Christian rock tour featuring Tenth Avenue North,
Rend Collective Experiment, and Audrey Assad. Tenth Avenue North, Rend
Collective, and Audrey Assad are one-world church builders.
The REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT,
from northern Ireland, is hooked intimately into the emerging church via
its close association with emergent leaders such as Tony Campolo, David
Crowder, and Shane Claiborne (http://rendcollective.com/bio).
Of the Rend Collective Experiment, Campolo says, “Here’s some music
that will motivate Christians to participate in God’s revolution in the
world.” He is referring to the heresy of building the kingdom of God in
this present world. Campolo believes in evolution, rejects the doctrine
of Biblical inerrancy, believes that non-Christians will go to heaven,
mocks the imminent return of Christ, supports the homosexual rights
movement, and promotes Roman Catholic contemplative prayer practices.
(For documentation see “Beware of Tony Campolo” at www.wayoflife.org.)
Claiborne has worked with the Roman
Catholic Missionaries of Charity and praises Mother Teresa as a truly
spiritual person, even though she held a false sacramental gospel that
falls under the curse of Galatians 1 and worshipped the wafer of the
Catholic mass as Christ. Further, she was a universalist and her
“sisters” prepare Hindus to die by teaching them to pray to their false
gods. (See the free Way of Life eBook Was Mother Teresa a True Christian? for extensive documentation, www.wayoflife.org.)
In January 2012, Crowder led
worship for the send-off of Rob Bell at Mars Hill Bible Church in
Grandville, Michigan (“Rob Bell Received a Tearful Farewell,” Christian Post,
Jan. 9, 2012). Crowder thus put his blessing on Bell’s many rank
heresies, including his denial that the Bible is the infallible Word of
God and his denial of the eternal judgment of hell. In his 2011 book Love Wins, Bell preaches near-universalism, as well as a false god, a false christ, a false gospel, a false heaven, and a false hell.
None of this heresy bothers emergents. They save their criticism for those who warn about such things.
AUDREY ASSAD converted to the Roman
Catholic Church in 2007. Like her fellow Roman Catholic musicians Matt
Maher, Kathy Troccoli, and John Michael Talbot, Assad is an ecumenical
bridge-builder. She says that “the response to her music from
Protestants is just as positive as it is from Catholics,” and, “radio
has influenced and grown my Protestant fan base, which used to be more
Catholic, but now it’s about half-and-half” (“Audrey Assad: A convert
whose spiritual walk is a melody,” Catholic Online, Nov. 10, 2010). In
2008 she developed a relationship with fellow Roman Catholic Matt Maher
after they met during Gospel Music Week. She subsequently moved to
Phoenix and attends Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Tempe, where she sings
with the worship team.
Her song “For Love of You” mentions
the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus. When asked how her Catholic
faith inspires her music, she replies: “The way that I see the world has
been radically changed. I can’t emphasize enough how the Sacramental
union with God in the Eucharist has totally changed the way I see the
world” (“Audrey Assad: A convert whose spiritual walk is a melody,”
Catholic Online, Nov. 10, 2010). She loves C.S. Lewis and one of her
projects was to read all of his works chronologically. She observed that
Lewis was “a great bridge between Protestants and Catholics.”
TRINITY BAPTIST’S CHARISMATIC “GUEST WORSHIP LEADER”
The following is excerpted from
“Prominent Independent Baptist Church Invites Worship Leader from
Charismatic-Pentecostal Based Church,” The Fundamentalist Digest, February-March 2013:
“Under the leadership of its
pastor, Dr. Tom Messer, Trinity Baptist Church [TBC] Jacksonville, FL, a
well-known independent Baptist Church, has been rapidly moving in the
last few years in a New-Evangelical, pro-Charismatic and CCM rock music
direction. TBC recently participated in the national New-Evangelical
‘Back to Church’ [BTC] Sunday in September 2011. On the BTC Sunday, TBC
featured as the ‘Guest Worship Leader’ Regi Stone, the ‘worship leader’
at the Christ Church, Nashville, TN. According to its official website,
Christ Church unashamedly identifies its ‘roots’ as being ‘in the
Pentecostal/ Charismatic renewal.’ Christ Church, Nashville, is
ecumenically slanted. The church has as one of its goals ‘to encourage
outreach and involvement with other congregations in an effort to mend
denominational divisiveness and serve Nashville as the unified body of
Christ.’”
CONCLUSION
Who would have prophesied 16 years
ago, when Trinity Baptist hosted the Southwide Baptist Fellowship and
issued a statement warning about ecumenical Promise Keepers and its
“unholy music” that Trinity Baptist would have been swimming in these
frightfully apostate waters today?
And yet the seeds of compromise had
already been sown. The next 20 years will see most fundamental Baptist
churches swimming in the same waters for the reasons that we have
documented in the free eBook Why Most Independent Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging, available from www.wayoflife.org.
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