Would it surprise anyone if the "American Clergy
Leadership Conference"
turns out to be a Unification Church front group? See the list
at the end of this article.
Here is something we found at
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/moonsnewecumenicalventure.html
========================================================
April 10, 2001 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information
Service, P.O.
Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) -
Cult leader
"Rev." Sun Myung Moon has launched a new
ecumenical venture called "We Will
Stand!" It is being promoted by a 50 state tour which
began Feb. 25 in New
York City. The tour came to Oklahoma City on April 5, and
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Smith and I attended the press conference to gather
information about this
movement.
Michael Jenkins, President of the Family Federation for
World Peace (the new
name for Moon's Unification Church) and the American Clergy
Leadership
Conference (another Moon-associated organization), conducted
the press
conference. He noted that they are "on a mission to
rebuild the family and
to bring the body of Christ together." They intend to
build a coalition of
all denominations and races. He said, "There was a time
when the different
denominations had a purpose, but now God is raising up
prophets to call upon
the 12 tribes of the New Israel to be one body. Jesus is
calling upon all
denominations to come together, to break down denominational
walls. There is
a new dispensation. New things are being opened up." He
said that Moon is
revealing new things, and that Jesus' words are being
understood in new ways
today. Another speaker at the press conference, a
"Rev." Medina, said, "It
was during a Billy Graham crusade years ago that I lost my
denominational
hang-ups."
Participants in "We Will Stand" include Southern
Baptists, Missionary
Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, Church of God,
Christ of Christ,
Apostolic, United Pentecostal, Anglican, and others.
The unity that is desired by Moon's "We Will
Stand" venture goes far beyond
a unity of professing Christians, though. Jenkins said that
the love of
Jesus is so infinite that all should be embraced as children
of God. He
cited Jesus' prayer in John 17 and applied it to
inter-denominational,
inter-religious, and inter-racial unity. North American
Indians, who worship
nature, Jews, Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, and members
of other
religions are involved in the Moon coalition.
Like all ecumenical ventures, "We Will Stand"
encourages people to ignore
error. Pastor Humphrey, who also spoke at the press
conference, said, "Love
does not pay attention to things that are wrong." This
flies in the face of
hundreds of biblical commands to judge all things by the
Word of God. Jude
tells us to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered
to the saints
(Jude 3). 2 Timothy tells preachers to reprove sin and error
(2 Tim. 4:2).
The Psalmist, a man after God's own heart, said that he not
only loved the
truth but hated every false way (Psalm 119:128).
The 81-year-old Sun Myung Moon has been building broad
ecumenical coalitions
for decades, and it is amazing to see men who profess to
believe the Bible
joining hands with him. Moon was featured at an
"American Come Together"
meeting in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2001. It was
advertised as "the
inaugural prayer luncheon for unity and renewal" and
the chairpersons
included four members of the U.S. House of Representatives
as well as
Douglas Joo, President of the Washington Times Foundation,
which is owned by
Moon. The "invitational committee and speakers"
included the following
evangelical and charismatic leaders:
Don Argue, President, Northwest College Pat Boone, CCM
singer Phil Driscole,
CCM entertainer Kenneth Copeland, Word-Faith leader John
Corts, President,
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Paul Crouch,
President, Trinity
Broadcasting Network Wiley Drake, Pastor, First Southern
Baptist Church,
Buena Park, CA Tony Evans, Promise Keepers speaker Jerry
Falwell, President,
Liberty University Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham Max
Lucado, popular
author, Promise Keepers speaker James Merritt, President,
Southern Baptist
Convention Thomas Trask, General Superintendent, Assemblies
of God
By joining this endeavor, these men were yoked together with
a wide variety
of heresy, including cult leader Sun Myung Moon; Roman
Catholic John Michael
Talbot, who prays to Mary; self-esteem guru Robert Schuller;
and Jewish
Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Sun Myung Moon claims that Jesus Christ appeared to him in
1935 and
commissioned him to establish the kingdom of God on earth.
He started the
Unification Church in Korea in 1954, and in 1971 he came to
the United
States. According to the strange Unification doctrine (the
"Divine
Principle"), Moon and his wife, who are called
"the Heavenly Parents," were
chosen to produce the kingdom of God on earth. Moon claims
that God said to
him, "You are the son I have been seeking, the one who
can begin my eternal
history." Supposedly, Adam and Eve failed to produce
the kingdom because of
their sin, and Jesus likewise failed to produce the kingdom
of God because
he was crucified before he could marry the perfect bride.
Thus Moon was
chosen to carry on the work of Jesus Christ. Moon claims
that Jesus was born
of an immoral relationship between Mary and the father of
John the Baptist.
Moon conducts mass weddings of interracial couples. He says
that only when
man and woman come together to procreate do they make a
whole human being.
In Oakland, California, last month, he said to the women:
"If you don't give
birth, you are disqualified as a woman" ("Rev.
Moon Stirs Up Fans," Oakland
Tribune, March 13, 2001). In Oklahoma City, Moon proclaimed:
"I have been to
the spirit world. I have met God." In Minneapolis, Moon
interrupted his
message from time to time and asked, "Do you feel
grateful for Rev. Moon?"
("Rev. Moon still has much to say," Minneapolis
Star Tribune, March 11,
2001).
The hundreds of Moon-affiliated organizations include the
following:
American Clergy Leadership Conference
American Council for World Freedom
American Family Coalition
American Freedom Coalition
American Parents Association
Captive Nations
Causa U.S.A.
Center for Educational Media
Coalition for a Free World
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
Free Asia Foundation
Freedom Leadership Foundation
HeartWing
Insight
International Conference of World Peace
International Exchange Press
International Religious Foundation
Korean International Foundation for World Peace
Korean Professors World Peace Academy
National Parents Day Foundation
New Birth Project
New Family Foundation
News World Communications
Paragon House Publishers
Professors World Peace Academy
Rose of Sharon Press
Sunshine Schools
True Parents Organization
Unification Church
Visual Arts Society
Washington Times
Washington Institute Press
Women's Federation for World Peace
World Alliance for Civil Rights
World Anti-Communist League
World and I
World Freedom Movement
World Media Association
World Medical Health Foundation
World Scripture Project
World University Times