Republished July 29, 2004 (first published via the FBIS February 25, 1996 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -

The following report first appeared in O Timothy magazine, Volume 5, Issue 4, 1988:

To illustrate the radical heresy of the World Council of Churches (WCC), we offer some poems from a book printed by them in recent years. The book No Longer Strangers was a joint project of the Lutheran World Federation, World Council of Churches, World Student Christian Federation, and the World Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). It was first published in June 1984 and reprinted three times in the first year.

This WCC publication is supposed to be a guideline for worship. Consider some names we are supposed to call God during worship times--The Source, Lady of peace, Lady of wisdom, Lady of love, Lady of birth, Lord of stars, Lord of planets, Mother, Home, Bakerwoman, Presence, Power, Essence, Simplicity.

Nothing could be more blasphemous than these names by which the WCC says we can address God. My friends, God is not a "lady," nor is He a "bakerwoman" nor a "presence" nor the "Lord of planets"!

Throughout this publication God is spoken of in female terms. Consider a few more examples:

O God of a thousand names and faces
Mother and father of all life on earth,
Lady of peace, of love, of wisdom,
Lord of all the stars and planets,
Teach us to know and love you.

BLESSING THE BREAD
In the beginning was God ...
And God loved what SHE had made
And God said, "It is good."

Then God, knowing that all that is good is shared
held the earth tenderly in HER arms
God yearned for relationship
God longed to share the good earth
And humanity was born in the yearning of God
We were born to share the earth...

God said, You are my people,
My friends, My lovers, My sisters,
And brothers

Then God, gathering up HER courage in love, said,
Let there be bread!
And God's sisters, HER friends and lovers,
knelt on the earth
planted the seeds ...

I BELIEVE
I believe in God, MOTHER-FATHER SPIRIT
who called the world into being,
I believe in God, who because of love for HER creation, entered the world to share our humanity,
to be rejected, to die, but finally
to conquer death and to bind the world to HERSELF.

PRAYER OF ST. ANSELM
And Thou, Jesus, sweet Lord,
Art Thou not also a mother?
Truly, THOU ART A MOTHER,
And Thou, Jesus, sweet Lord,
Art Thou not also a MOTHER?
THE MOTHER OF ALL MOTHERS ...

BAKERWOMAN GOD
Bakerwoman God,
I am your living bread.
Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God ...
Put me in your fire, Bakerwoman God ...
Break me, Bakerwoman God. ...
Bakerwoman God, remake me.

These quotations leave no doubt about the apostasy of the World Council of Churches. It would be difficult to conceive of things more blasphemous, more foolish, and more unscriptural than the things we have quoted from this strange WCC book. Each of the 342 denominations associated with this Council partakes of its wickedness. These include the American Baptist Convention; Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; Anglican Church of Canada; Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland; Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker); Christian Church in Canada; Church of the Brethren; Church of England; Episcopal Church; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada; Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches; International Council of Community Churches; Methodist Church of the United Kingdom; Methodist Church in Singapore; Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland; National Baptist Convention of America, National Baptist Convention, USA; Presbyterian Church in Canada, USA, and Wales; Progressive National Baptist Convention USA; Reformed Church in America; Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of the former USSR; Union of Welsh Independents; United Church of Canada; United Church of Christ USA; United Methodist Church USA; and the Uniting Church in Australia, the Church of South India and the Church of North India. (For a complete list see http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/mch-e.html)

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues" (Revelation 18:4).