Southern Gospel Heresies

The following post speaks for itself. How many of you have someone in your church singing this heretic's songs?

He has won eight “Dove” awards, he is a Gospel music legend, and he is about to be installed (October 2007) in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He has appeared on the Gaither “Homecoming” videos, he has written dozens of hit Southern Gospel anthems, and he is considered by many to be a Godly man and a minister of Christ. However, the truth is that this man, by his own published admission, is a traitor to “…the faith once delivered to the saints…”. He is a denier of the Deity, the Lordship and the pre-existence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and a purveyor of salvation by works. Indeed, to find so glaring a heresy as this, one would have to look to the Ebionites, descended from the Judiazers, who existed for a brief period 1800 years ago.

Gospel music singer Joel Hemphill’s tract, “Can You Face Reality?”, is a poorly-written, self-contradictory snippet of a destructive heresy, one just as destructive as those encountered by Peter. 2 Pet 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. He flatly and plainly denies the lordship and deity of our Lord Jesus Christ and sets up a system of salvation by works. In the process, he ignores numerous scriptures, distorts and quotes others out of context, makes patently false statements about the Bible, publishes distortions and lies about history, uses unreliable theological sources, and misquotes and quotes out of context well-respected Christian teachers. His heresy is so far out that he literally exceeds other heresies of the day by denying the Lordship, pre-existence and eternality of Christ Jesus our Lord. Hemphill’s heresy exceeds that of the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, each of which has higher view of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ than Hemphill does, and it is being subsidized by the dollars of born-again believers who do not know nor realize the depth of these heresies.

 

On his website there is an advertisement for his new book, "To God Be The Glory." The document I have is an ad for that book. I am working on the scan now.

 

How do I send you this thing? I have it in jpg format...

 

Email me at

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and I will send you the two jpg files I wound up with

 

you should have them...Most of the pastors in this area received one of these this week.

 

Because this was sent out as a circular announcing his book and summarizing its message. The book, "To God Be The Glory," is on the website.

 

If you read the tract carefully, he rejects the pre-existence of Jesus, and he teaches baptismal regeneration. This gets worse every time I read it.

 

One of the best kept secrets in CCM and Southern Gospel is the number of out and out heretics that are singers.

Philips, Craig, and Dean are Sabellians (no trinity, only an economic triunity, not an ontological Trinity), and are pastors in churches that not only deny the Trinity, but teach baptismal regeneration.