Friday, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The following is another installment of the Fundamental Baptist Information Service Friday News Notes:

CHARISMATIC MAGAZINE SAYS WOMEN SHOULD BE LEADERS. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - J. Lee Grady, editor of the influential Charisma magazine, has written an article titled ã10 Lies the Church Tells Women.ä Some of these ãliesä are as follows: ãWomen are not equipped to assume leadership roles in the church; women must not teach or preach to men in a church setting; a woman should view her husband as the Îpriest of the homeâ; women are more easily deceived than men; women must obediently submit to their husbands in all situations.ä Grady claims that ãevery one of the above statements is false,ä but he is very confused. The Bible does say that women are not allowed to teach or preach to men and that women are not to be leaders over men in the churches (1 Tim. 2:11,12); it does say that women are more easily deceived (1 Tim. 2:14); it does say that wives are to submit to their husbands ãas unto the Lordä (Eph. 5:22).

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR UNREGISTERED GROUPS IN RUSSIA. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - December 31 is the extended deadline for religious groups in Russia to register with the government or be eliminated. At the instigation of the Russian Orthodox Church, a law passed in 1997 requiring all ãnon-traditionalä religious groups that have been in the country less than 15 years to register with the government. The original deadline of December 31, 1999, was extended for one year by President Vladimir Putin.

MORMONISM GROWING. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) continues to grow aggressively around the world. There are currently 100 temples serving 11 million Mormons. In 1999, almost 60,000 Mormon missionaries spread their false gospel in 120 countries. They claimed 306,000 converts.

HOMOSEXUAL ANGLICAN CLERGYMEN. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Several homosexual priests have been elected to the Church of Englandâs General Synod. A spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Christian Movement said that there are more than 10 homosexual priests whose lifestyle is known to people in their dioceses. In typical modernistic, ecumenical fashion, the Church of England officially condemns homosexuality as sinful and forbids ordination of practicing homosexuals, but overlooks this in practice.

PERSECUTION CONTINUES IN INDIA. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Since the radical Hindu BJP political party came to power in India in 1996, assaults on Christians and other minorities have increased. There have been beatings, bombings, arson, and outright murder. The Hindus, who see no difference between various denominations, claim that Christians are forcing and coercing conversions. Recently the general secretary of the Hindu organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Prabinbhai Togadia, demanded that Christians in the state of Tripura ãstop conversions or face the ire of the VHP volunteers.ä

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS GROWING THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEDIA. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The Seventh-day Adventists are preparing to broadcast an evangelistic crusade by satellite to 33 countries in Latin America next year. The messages are preached by Hispanic SDA evangelist Victor Schultz. Seventh-day Adventism was established upon the alleged prophecies of Ellen G. White. Our book Avoiding the Snare of Seventh-day Adventism exposes its heresies. This is available in print from Way of Life Literature and is contained electronically in the Fundamental Baptist CD-ROM Library. Most of these studies are also available in the Way of Life Encyclopedia of the Bible & Christianity.

LAWSUITS FORCE CANADIAN ANGLICAN DIOCESE TO DISBAND. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The Anglican diocese of Cariboo, in northern British Columbia (western Canada), is being forced to disband due to lawsuits by former students who claim to have been abused in church-run schools. Roughly 1,600 lawsuits have been filed since 1993, when a former dormitory supervisor was convicted of sexual abuse of students. The diocese has spent Canadian $350,000 on legal fees and is bankrupt. The Anglican Church in Canada recently cut $500,000 from its budget and laid off eight employees because of the expenses of the lawsuits. Also named in lawsuits are the Roman Catholic Church in Canada and United Church of Canada. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States has spent multiplied millions of dollars on legal fees and penalties due to sexual abuse of children by priests.

CHARISMATIC CONFUSION SWEEPING ACROSS THE WORLD. Friday News Notes, November 24, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Charismatic confusion continues to sweep across the world. An example was the World Congress on Revival in Guatemala at the end of October. Speakers included Steve Hill, who led the ãrevivalä at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, the last few years; Rodney Howard Browne, who calls himself the Holy Ghost bartender because of the spirit of drunkenness that attends many of his meetings; and Claudio Freidzon, Buenos Aires pastor who experienced ãholy laughterä and ãspiritual drunkennessä in his meetings after reading Benny Hinnâs book Good Morning, Holy Spirit and after Hinn laid hands on him in the spring of 1992. A spokesman for the conference claimed that several people were healed under the ministry of Cindy Jacobs, who leads Generals of Intercession. I canât say what happened in Guatemala, but I witnessed Jacobsâ ministry at Celebration Jesus 2000 in St. Louis this summer, and none of those who came to the meeting in wheelchairs or on crutches were healed even though she demanded that God bind the spirit of infirmity and send forth healing. At the conclusion of the October conference, there was a public ordination of 14 ãapostles in the nation of Guatemala.ä Segments of the conference were broadcast to other parts of Latin America by television, radio, and Internet. Oh, that fundamental Baptists were as zealous as the Charismatics in proclaiming the Word of God by every means possible!