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JACK HAYFORD AND ROME

By David W. Cloud

The following is from the editor's book Flirting With Rome: Volume 4--The Charismatics. Volume 1 traces Billy Graham's relationship with Rome from 1950 to present. Volume 2 covers other key Evangelical men and organizations. Volume 3 deals with the Southern Baptist Convention's Rome connection. Volume 4 deals with the Charismatics. These volumes can be ordered from Way of Life Literature in the States (P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org). All four volumes US$10.00. Any one volume is US$2.50. Add $3 S/H.

Jack Hayford, pastor of the 6,500-member Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, is the author of the popular worship song Majesty. That he is a radical ecumenist is evident in the way he works hand-in-hand with Catholic leaders in conferences throughout the world.

For example, he joined hands with tens of thousands of Roman Catholics, including hundreds of Catholic priests and nuns, at the North American conference mentioned previously.

Hayford was a featured speaker at John Wimber's 1991 conference in Sydney, Australia, joining hands in that forum with Catholic priests Tom Forrest and Raniero Cantalamessa, and Catholic layman Kevin Ranaghan. Forrest is the priest who at Indianapolis '90 said he praises God for purgatory.

Cantalamessa is the Papal preacher at the Vatican. Ranaghan claims that the Roman Catholic Church alone contains the fullness of God and truth and that the Pope is the infallible head of all churches. Hayford put his stamp of approval upon these men's heresies by appearing with them in this forum and treating them as of they were true men of God.

Hayford is on the Board of Regents for Melodyland Christian Center, which, as noted elsewhere in this study, has a history of close relationship with Roman Catholicism. A fellow board member is Roman Catholic Fred Ladenius, author of Amazing John XXIII, a book fully supportive of the Pope by that name, a Pope who died with a rosary in his hand and prayers to Mary and Catholic "saints" on his lips.

[From "Digging in the Walls," O Timothy magazine, Volume 12, Issue 7-8, 1995. O Timothy is a monthly magazine which is available by subscription from Way of Life Literature, 1219 N. Harns Road, Oak Harbor, Washington 98277. Subscription price is $20.]

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