I have no desire to name the individual, and there is no profit in it. This man was a pastor of a well known evangelical church in my “younger” days, a teacher, writer and a university speaker at Christian unions, etc.

I think I may even have heard him speak live at some conference, in my student days, a long time ago!!

Suddenly, some years later, I was shocked to find that this individual had left his wife and his children, his home, his very shocked congregation, taken up with a male staffer, and thrown himself into the “Christian” LGBT apostate movement, though, unlike Joshua Harris, it was not a friendly divorce, and this man, still claimed to be an evangelical Christian. I was stunned to read an article he wrote defending his position.

His books were eventually pulled from the shelves, and his magazine columns removed and terminated.

Now this country, led by its Socialist Prime Minister, now goes on to the next step, abortion on demand, right up to birth. The Canaanite religion is about to be added to Islam, as the preferred state religion of New Zealand.

It is also sad for his former church, of which he was the pastor, his former congregation, and the many folks that read and were influenced by his now discarded books.

I agree with Carol and with Wayfarer Pilgrim, and feel that this is indeed a prelude to him announcing his “coming out of the closet” as actively LGBTQ etc., himself, maybe with a “partner”. I would be most surprised if this is not the case.

It was only after a lot of pressure, particularly from the US, that our government finally and somewhat reluctantly arrested Hamza, and despite every obstruction by his lawyers, finally deported him to the US for justice.

The sight of two white police officers accusing a black preacher of being “racist”, is surely very ironic.

This faithful man was preaching the gospel outside the suburban Southgate Underground Station (the tube; subway to you in the US), on the Piccadilly Line in North London.

He was not being contentious, but preaching from the Bible the necessity of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Apparently a local Muslim took great exception to this, and started waving his prayer beads about, and got right in the preacher’s face, before complaining to the police.

Meanwhile a whole new set of younger senior priests, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals, well below 70 yrs old, (when bishops must resign their dioceses), and 80 yrs old, (when cardinals are no longer allowed to vote in Papal Election Conclaves, though they keep the title of Cardinal), are being groomed up by the Leftist, globalist, environmentalist, interfaith and pro-LGBT establishment to take over senior positions in the RCC, leading to more cover ups, and to the embracing of nominally Catholic leftist politicians , as well as non-Catholic politicians, who will implement these types of policies in their countries.

This man continued the liberal policies of his predecessor, even contrary to Catholic doctrine, with a modernist and pro LGBT stance, and cover ups of paedophile priests, and on his resignation, also due to the age rule, he had personally coached up his successor, Wilton Gregory, already established as a pro-LGBT and doctrinal liberal in his previous diocese of Atlanta, I believe.

I actually attended some meetings of a convention of a Black Pentecostal Church here in Britain some years ago, and was very heartened at the hospitality and kindness of the people. They did their own catering, and apparently all the visiting delegates were housed at the homes of the local brothers and sisters, not in hotels. Unlike some black denominations, this group did not emphasise money, and collections were not even taken during the services.

A different black church, who also had their annual convention, in the city I was living in, and who hired the local city concert hall, there was a good speaker, an elderly minister, who very firmly exhorted his community, to educate their children properly, the men of the community to be responsible, not to take handouts, and to be proper families in the church.

However, God overruled for many years in Hong Kong as refugees from China in both the Japanese occupation and then from Mao’s Communist China were able to go there.

As for the Balfour Declaration, that was good not bad, and in accordance with Bible prophecy, but unfortunately subsequently during her mandate in Israel from 1917 to 1948, Britain actually reneged on the deal to reestablish Israel as a sovereign nation, gave over 75% of the land to the Arabs, and at the end of their time, when Jews had been fleeing Nazi persecution, forbad them to come to the land, interned them, deported them to places like Cyprus, Mauritius, and even back to the same concentration camps in Germany and Europe that they had fled from, though now reconstituted by the victorious Allies as refugee camps.

Doesn’t sound very much like good works to me, to hide paedophiles, and other clerical criminals, and support them in their flight from or in their encounter with justice.

While alert to the fact that occasionally there can be false accusations made, there seems far too many priests and accusations for them all to be false!!

It reminds me of the “”Rat Trail” of notorious ex-Nazi party leaders, SS guards, Gestapo police chiefs and other war criminals to get them out of Germany and other European countries where they were wanted for trial after the 2nd World War, to safe havens and secret refuges, generally in places like South America. The infamous Dr Mengele of the Auschwitz camp was one of these, he was never tried for his crimes and he died in Brazil.

It says, “For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one consent”, and in verses 12 and 13 it says, “12. I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD. 13. The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

In one diocese, the bishop is still protecting one priest who is still in charge of a large parish, and at one point was in charge of priestly vocations in the diocese, though he did reluctantly resign, that responsibility, when some things came to light.

In this case, the man apparently molested adults, rather than children, and had an alcohol problem, as well as being LGBT.

Things are not helped by even very solid godly teachers and preachers. One whose newsletter and blog I get, and who generally I really respect, sadly in his latest blog, took the “new modern Bible” position that the last verses of Mark’s gospel are not in the “most reliable and ancient manuscripts” and are therefore not really therefore part of the Bible.! This is most sad.

I guess this suited his cessationist view on spiritual gifts, but actually one of my own previous pastors, who is also a cessationist, has actually written a booklet, defending the KJV text of these last verses of Mark’s Gospel.