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PROBLEMS WITH SWINDOLL

[The following material is from O Timothy magazine, Volume 15 Issue 12, 1998. This material cannot be placed on BBS or Internet sites without express permission from the author. Copyright 1998 by David W. Cloud. All rights are reserved by the author. O Timothy is a monthly magazine. Annual subscription is US$20 FOR THE UNITED STATES. Send to Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org. FOR CANADA the subscription is $20 Canadian. The Way of Life Internet web site is http://www.wayoflife.org/.]

Dallas Seminary President Chuck Swindoll plans to grow a new megachurch near Dallas. The 7/98 Australian Beacon said Swindoll is one of the most eminent popularizers of new evangelicalism and pop psychology, and also highly esteemed in charismatic circles. It says he has no qualms in supporting Billy Graham and the work of Mother Teresa. In the past five years he has spoken on NRB, MBI, Word of Life, and Promise Keepers platforms. He has praised the unreliable Living Bible, referred to Chuck Colson as a prophet, and promoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Swindoll's "grace" in his Grace Awakening book disregards its bounds of doctrinal truth. This "legalism vs. liberty" book is ably refuted by fundamentalist theologian Dr. Ernest Pickering in a 33-page 1994 booklet, Are Fundamentalists Legalists? (Baptist World Mission, P.O. Box 2149, Decatur, AL 35602, $2). Much of the above is discussed in greater depth in a 5-page paper from BDM, P.O. Box 679, Bedford, IN 47421, $1 (Calvary Contender, October 15, 1998).