October 3, 2001 (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The following information is compiled from past issues of the Calvary Contender:

Dr. Bruce Wilkinson is the president and founder of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries (WTB). He attended Dallas Seminary and later taught at Multnomah (both are New Evangelical schools). Dallas professor Howard Hendricks participated in a WTB video series (Fundamentalist Journal, Nov. 1988). Wilkinson has been on PTL and has had a mostly ecumenical itinerary. Some are charismatic, evangelical, and Catholic churches, but many are the most liberal of National Council-World Council of Churches denominational churches! (Calvary Contender, Sept. 1, 1987).

We suppose that Wilkinson's Bible survey (for a big fee) is good, but WTB has the same basic flaw as the Bill Gothard seminars -- trying to teach Bible truths to unsaved people who cannot receive them (1 Cor. 2:14). If he stressed what people in liberal denominations and RC churches need most -- salvation and separation -- we can be sure he would not be popular with this crowd's leaders. When he gives the plan of salvation, can/does he tell converts to "come out" of these apostate churches, or does he, as Billy Graham, turn the lambs back over to wolves? Recent full-page ads in new evangelical magazines have glowing endorsements of WTB by Swindoll, Stanley, Falwell, MacArthur, and Kennedy (Calvary Contender, Dec. 1, 1988).

In 1987, Walk Thru the Bible was one of the sponsors for the ecumenical Congress of the Bible II, which had Catholic William Buckley and leftist/radical Ron Sider as speakers. Catholic sympathizer Chuck Colson was the Congress' chairman. Pastor Wilson Ewin (Quebec Baptist Mission, P.O. Box 113, Compton, Quebec, Canada J0B 1L0) has an excellent 6-page analysis of WTB pointing out its "leniency and tolerant attitude towards Romanism." Wilson also notes that Wilkinson wrote the introduction to Tyndale House Publisher's The Daily Walk Bible, an edition of the Living Bible (Calvary Contender, April 15, 1989).

The Promise Keepers movement is spreading like wildfire and is coming to 13 cities this year. It is bringing together Catholic charismatics, Pentecostals, liberals, and evangelicals. Even some "fundamentalists" and GARBC'ers have participated so it would be hard to overstate the danger this movement poses to Bible-believers. Moody President Joseph Stowell is one of the speakers again this year. Other speakers are most notorious Pope-praising ecumenicals, or charismatics or new-evangelicals, such as: Bill Bright, Bruce Wilkinson, E.V. Hill, Luis Palau, Jack Hayford, Chuck Colson, Bill Hybels, Tony Evans, Gary Smalley, Franklin Graham, John Perkins, Greg Laurie, and Howard Hendricks. Jerry Falwell invited a PK rally to Liberty University March 25. Foundation Editor Dr. M.H. Reynolds says the PK movement "represents another massive effort of Satan to mix truth and error in some very deceptive ways" (Calvary Contender, April 1, 1995).

A brochure from the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove (NC) listed the following as 1998 speakers: Joseph Stowell, James Montgomery Boice (recent Cedarville speaker), David Jeremiah, Warren Wiersbe, Elisabeth Elliot, Anne Graham Lotz, Franklin Graham, Woodrow Kroll, Adrian Rogers, Jill Briscoe, Buster Soaries, Larry Crabb, Stephen Hayner, Jay Kesler, and Bruce Wilkinson (Calvary Contender, April 1, 1998).

Dallas Seminary celebrates its 75th Anniversary in October with a National Leadership Conference, featuring the following ecumenical speakers (1/11 Christianity Today): Bruce Wilkinson, MBI-President Joe Stowell, Tony Evans, Howard Hendricks and Roman Catholic author William Bennett (Calvary Contender, February 1, 1999).

A coalition of over 60 'evangelical' groups are members of The CoMission, chaired by Bruce Wilkinson, the ecumenical head of Walk Thru The Bible Ministries [WTTB]. Members include WTTB, Moody Bible Institute, Campus Crusade, and the Navigators. The CoMission is recruiting 12,000 volunteers to raise $20,000 each to spend a year in the former Soviet Union to teach Russian teachers Christian ethics and morality which they in turn will teach to school students. CoMission representatives sought and received the endorsement of the Russian Orthodox Church (Christianity Today, Dec. 14, 1992). The project must be turned over to Russian leadership by 1997. The Gospel Missionary Union is a CoMission member, and its president in its Jan. 1993 paper said: "Christians around the world must work together to maximize our capacity to gather in the fish. ... It's time to throw away our individual fishing poles, grab our nets and move our boats alongside one another" (Calvary Contender, Mar. 1, 1993).

CONCLUSION BY BROTHER CLOUD:

Friends, the Russian Orthodox Church is as apostate as the Roman Catholic Church. Though the Russian Orthodox Church does not recognize the Roman Pope, it has the same cursed sacramental gospel as Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church has deceived multitudes and led them to an eternal hell by teaching them to put their faith in the "church" rather than in Christ and in His atonement alone. Russian Orthodoxy also has the blasphemous priesthood which has positioned itself between the believer and Christ. It has the mass, worship of Mary, prayers to the dead, prayers for the dead, infant baptism, incense, candles, holy days, holy water, holy relics, holy garments, pilgrimages, idols, incantations, and miraculous medals.

The Russian Orthodox Church has enslaved millions in its web of ritualistic, legalistic bondage. For Bruce Wilkinson and the other evangelical members of The CoMission to yoke together with Russian Orthodoxy in "evangelism" is inexcusable. Bible-believing churches should have nothing to do with Walk Thru the Bible.