Problems at Moody Bible Institute
(MBI) – Erwin Lutzer
www.RestoreMBI.com/Erwin-Lutzer-Profile.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/Erwin-Lutzer-Profile.pdf
[This report here is part of Part 7 of the “Project to
Restore Moody Bible Institute to its Roots and Foundation”. This seventh part
looks at several leaders and seeks to inform Moody family, alumni, faculty, donors
and prayer partners and to warn them about leaders who show by pattern as not
believing the Bible and working against it. If you missed the previous parts,
you can find them here: www.RestoreMBI.com/web.htm ]
We at FEDBP are saddened to have to
write this Report & Bibliography on Erwin Lutzer. We have listened to Moody
Radio many times over many years, hearing both “Running to Win”
and Sunday morning sermons from The Moody Church. As we have gained an
understanding over the last fifteen years about corrupt leaders of churches, we
slowly became aware of Jesuits. Several years ago when we encountered the fact
that Erwin Lutzer got a M.A. from Loyola University – a prominent Jesuit school
named after the founder of the Jesuits. We noticed that he didn’t preach about
sin and obedience, so we saw that those two thinkings
go together. Below we show a lot more reasons why his Jesuit training is a primary factor in the
current overthrow of Moody’s top leadership.
As we
are about to show you, we have discovered that Lutzer is not only a Jesuit in
his ideology, but is also a very prominent Jesuit leader in their program for
Chicago and in the world. His acting part is to be a pretend conservative voice
who believes that whereas Christians are absolutely different from the lying
and proud false religion of Catholics, they must unite their efforts together
to stop the anti-christ from destroying the church. To that end, Lutzer has
made friendships with a deceptive Franciscan monk (Father Dimitri Sala) and a
variety of other similarly corrupt “pastors” in Chicago and around the world,
while joining networks of communication and leadership with people like Luis
Palau who is a good friend of the current Jesuit Pope. Erwin admires completely
the work of Billy Graham and others who are leading toward one-world religious
unity (of ALL religions) since 1946, and has the highest regard for men like
Bonhoeffer and Niemoller who created the building blocks of the World Council
of Churches, World Evangelical Alliance, and Lausanne movement which Billy
Graham became the prominent director of. Lutzer is proud of his Jesuit
education, though secretly, most of the time. Lutzer has been a strong barrier
protecting the Jesuits and Free-masons he has helped to sneak into the Moody
Bible Institute and Moody Church for more than 36 years.
Here are links that show Erwin Lutzer’s short bio as a speaker at conferences and accompanying his sermons on various websites. Each one
shows his M.A. in Philosophy from Loyola.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/running-to-win-long-version/listen/god-helps-those-who-help-themselves-part-1-of-2-260213.html
https://familylifetoday.com/guest/erwin-lutzer/
https://www.moody.edu/about/our-leadership/president/
https://www.moodypublishers.com/authors/l/erwin-w-lutzer/
https://www.graceconference.org/speakers.shtml
https://moodyaudio.com/person/erwin-lutzer
https://logoi.org/authors/erwin-lutzer/
The reason we are sharing that list of links is just so that Lutzer cannot
remove this part of his history from public notice. He already removed this
information from seven other sources. That is a cover-up. What those sites
do not contain is the information that Lutzer went beyond the M.A. in
Philosophy to complete all of the necessary requirements for a Ph.D. in
Philosophy from Loyola. By Lutzer’s own admission, he simply didn’t complete
the dissertation even though he qualified in every other way. So Lutzer spent
this many years acquiring a doctorate level of Jesuit philosophy knowledge.
Jesuits, as we have learned over the last fifteen years, are the military wing
of the Catholic “church” to force all religions under the Pope and destroy
whatever won’t work with them. In America, they have entirely represented
themselves as the evangelistic, proselytizing branch of the Catholic “church”.
But if you do any research into their history, it is seriously violent and treacherous.
Their oath is one of the clearest indicators of that. Here is a link to that
Jesuit oath and our other explanations of who Jesuits are. We cannot prove that
Mr. Lutzer is a Jesuit. We can prove that he has had years of Jesuit training,
and that he agrees almost entirely with their philosophy. Please keep in mind that 95%
of Jesuits never reveal their allegiance or oath to the Vatican and pope. Here’s a short quote from the lengthy Jesuit oath.
“… I furthermore promise and declare that I
will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless
war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I
am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole
earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang,
waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the
stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the
walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same
cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating
cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor,
rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their
condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed
so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy
Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
"In confirmation of
which, I hereby dedicate my life, my soul and all my corporal powers, and with
this dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my own
blood, in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my
determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the Militia of the Pope
cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened
and sulphur burned therein, with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon
me on earth and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever!...”
>
Source link: https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jesuits.htm
You can find out more here
information about the Jesuits in our article on Jesuits at Moody campus.
Problems at Moody – Jesuits
www.RestoreMBI.com/problems-at-Moody-Jesuits.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/problems-at-Moody-Jesuits.pdf
Whereas there are some sources who pretend to
discredit that oath as being fake, it can easily be understood as part of the
cover-up if you do research. Usually that suggestion of fraud is based on one
man’s research (Father T. E. Bridgett who wrote “Blunders and Forgeries”) a
couple hundred years after the original source (Robert Ware, son of James Ware,
who wrote “Foxes and Firebrands” based on his father’s information). Many liars
will also try to discredit Jack Chick and his booklets when given the chance,
or suggest that the source of the oath is based in the Library of Congress (where
it is recorded in an old lawsuit). But those who downplay the importance of
this are ignored dozens of books that show the oath, activities and false
teachings of the Jesuits. So now you can go to the source of the discussion and
discover the truth instead of all of the red herrings discussions.
> https://www.restorembi.com/Books.htm
> https://www.restorembi.com/Books.pdf
Or you can also just read up on what
Jesuits do (from books in the above link or others like them) and you will
discover the same principles quoted in the oath actually being put to use to
conquer entire countries and control other groups of Christians and Jews who
refused to be part of the Catholic “church”. Or you can just research the
inquisitions and crusades which show the nature of the Catholic leadership a
different way. There’s plenty more ways to discover why Jesuits operate the way
they do, and we recommend that method of learning as far less surprising than
waiting until they introduce their next orchestrated event to show who they
are.
***
In this video, you will find Erwin Lutzer’s explaining his path to becoming
pastor at Moody Church – recorded in 2013, Lutzer
explains his story from a child, through his education, to meeting his wife,
Rebecca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxWNJF6GRg
Listen carefully to how he met
Rebecca and to his explanation of how he decided to go to Winnipeg Bible
College, Dallas Theological and further to Loyola University. Lutzer believes
it was God’s divine plan to have him get a degree at Winnipeg, so he could go
to Dallas. Of course, he won’t actually tell the real reason that he believes
so strongly about his role in this powerful free-mason network at Dallas
Theological. He leaves it to be assumed that he just wouldn’t have become a
pastor of Moody Church if he hadn’t gone to Winnipeg, which then allowed him to
go to Dallas, which was the required network to get him in as pastor at Moody. That
is significant considering that Lutzer then talks about going to Loyola like it
was a good thing, but that it just got interrupted by something better (looking
toward becoming pastor of Moody Church who would not have accepted him if
Loyola was celebrating his doctorate in their philosophy). In this video, he admits
that he has a doctorate-in-philosophy level of knowledge among the Jesuits
without actually obtaining the degree.
Even worse, notice that it was actually a Moody Bible Institute professor sometime
during or before 1970 who told Lutzer to go to Loyola University! We know this
year based on his becoming pastor of Edgewater Baptist Church who he says was
okay with him studying at Loyola and that they would bring him on as pastor
(1970-1977 https://www.edgebapt.com/our-story) and help fund his studies toward “ministry”.
That means that this Jesuit infiltration of MBI has been going on more than ten
years before Erwin Lutzer became a “pastor” at Moody Memorial Church. Notice
the fact that Edgewater Baptist Church was perfectly okay with covering for
Lutzer while he got his Jesuit education from 1970 until sometime around
1977/1978 (this date is assumed based on a four year Masters of Philosophy
degree followed by another four years of doctorate work in philosophy at
Loyola).
We would also like you to notice from this video of Lutzer telling his story,
that there was a sneaky hand-off to Lutzer to become the pastor at Moody
Church. Anyone who has watched multiple overthrows of churches or has seen one
corrupt pastor hand off to another has seen these methods of slow introduction
into leadership. Lutzer says that he and Rebecca felt that God was asking them
to leave Edgewater Baptist Church, which is false because his family was
actually being redirected by his handlers in the conservative leadership toward
becoming a pastor of Moody Church. So they did leave and the church gave them a
farewell party. The very next Sunday, Lutzer is without a church and wanted to
go to Circle Church, but Rebecca recommended they go to Moody Church where
Lutzer was already a friend of Warren Wiersbe. As
Lutzer walked into the lobby of Moody Church that morning Wiersbe
says he is sick and going home and asks Lutzer to preach. So Lutzer says that
the first time he visited Moody Church, he preached… For those who don’t know
secret powerful hand-offs among Freemasons who are in power over the churches,
this is what it looks like. They bring them to visit and introduce them to the
inner workings and tell them the secrets of how to appease everyone in the
church to keep it stable and progressing in the direction that they want it to
go. Three years later, Lutzer is the new senior pastor and it gets presented as
God’s will, because there were such mysterious guiding principles that seem
like they could only be God’s hand guiding it. Well, most people aren’t paying
attention to the hidden hand – Free-masonry and Jesuits.
Whereas Lutzer has not been directly part of faculty of MBI, he has exerted
more influence over 36 years of being pastor than any of the professors he
helped to sneak their way into the school. But now they are carrying out his
original mission that started in the early 1980’s. Now his disciples from
Loyola are in many important faculty positions at Moody Bible Institute. You
will also hear his high respect for elite Free-mason (33rd) Billy
Graham in this video.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxWNJF6GRg
***
This next article is a letter sent
to Lighthouse Trails Research who checks into psychology taking over various
parts of churches, denominations, and para-church organizations. It includes
the video above, along with helpful description.
Letter
to the Editor: Concerns About Erwin Lutzer
August 4, 2016 by Lighthouse Trails
Editors
LTRP Note: Christian leaders are giving a pass to Roman Catholicism
and the Jesuits. After reading this letter to the editor, we cannot help but
wonder how many other Christian leaders have attended Jesuit schools and could
this be a reason so many of them are accepting of contemplative spirituality
and Catholicism in general? One thing is for sure, popular Christian leaders
who have attended Jesuit schools and who promote contemplative figures are
influencing others to do the same.
Dear Lighthouse Trails:
I wanted to let you know that I happened to listen to an online
YouTube message from Erwin Lutzer yesterday that was an overview of his life.1 Well, I was shocked to hear him say he went to Loyola
University!!!! [see YouTube link below; also: https://logoi.org/authors/erwin-lutzer/?___store=en]. It was after his graduation from Dallas Seminary, but still,
he did not offer an apology for not knowing he should stay out of Catholicism
back when he was young, no, he said it just as if it was a good university to
go to!!! I was stunned, as I had always thought Moody Bible was separate from
Catholicism, and the very name of Loyola screams Jesuit Catholicism, the worst
of the worst of Catholicism! Anyway, I thought it might be worth noting in your
articles about how Moody Bible Institute is going Contemplative, and it may
help you to maybe understand why his response to your warning e-mails to him
was to love all of the brethren. That’s because he obviously feels
the Catholics are our brethren. Also if you listen to the link I’ve provided
below with that message, you will hear him say that Billy Graham was his hero
when he was young, and he still brags about getting 20 minutes of private time
with the famous preacher, (at which I said under my breath, every important
person in the world gets 20 minutes with Billy Graham, whether they be Democrat
or Republican, immoral or moral, Communist or the Pope, Billy Graham has met
with and approved of all of them as God’s children.) and so Erwin Lutzer has
obviously ignored the fact that Billy Graham sent people back to their Catholic
churches after they made a confession for Christ at his crusades and that he
has been [one of] the most instrumental preacher in getting the ecumenical
movement on its fast path.
Thank you for standing
for truth and for being a resource for us all who are wondering “what is
happening to our preachers today and the institutions we trusted such as Moody
Bible?” Your articles gave me the support I needed to realize I am not alone in
being disturbed about Erwin Lutzer’s stance on things and that I need to stick
with older preachers who were separate from Catholicism.
God bless,
L.M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxWNJF6GRg
https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=21256
***
From this information, we found that Erwin Lutzer is also on the board of
references of this next Chicago-land ministry “Entrusted Ministries” alongside
Joseph Stowell and Luis Palau. Luis
Palau is said to be the Billy Graham of South America and has been a friend of
Billy Graham for more than fifty-five years. Luis Palau is also a personal
friend of the current openly Jesuit pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) from
Argentina which is where Luis is from also. This is very concerning, simply
because it shows how much the satanic network trusts Erwin Lutzer and wants him
to be a representative of the church among them. We follow that link from
Entrusted with articles showing Luis Palau’s interests briefly so you can
understand that he is not a friend of true faith.
Entrusted Board Of
References
Dr. Erwin
Lutzer, Senior Pastor
The Moody Church
Dr. Joseph
Stowell, President
Cornerstone University
Luis Palau, International Christian Evangelist
https://entrustedministries.com/board-of-references/
Here is a Luis Palau interview
talking about his friendship with the current openly Jesuit Pope in the
Vatican:
“Argentine
native and international evangelist Luis Palau considers Jorge Bergoglio,
the newly elected Pope Francis, a personal friend. So, Palau says, he was
especially excited yesterday to hear that Catholic cardinals had selected
Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, to replace Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI after his resignation.
“CT spoke with
Palau, who offered his perspective on Pope Francis both as an evangelist and as
Bergoglio's personal friend. (CT has also gathered
reactions from evangelical leaders in the United
States and Argentina.)
CT:
“What was your reaction when you heard that Bergoglio had been selected as
pope?
Palau:
“It was exciting because of Argentina, because of his personality, and because
of his openness toward evangelical Christians. I got kind of emotional, simply
having known him.
“He came in second to Pope
Benedict XVI in the last election and pulled out of the vote voluntarily,
because he thought, 'We shouldn't be doing this, vote after vote.' I said to
him when I saw him afterward, 'What a pity! I thought I would be able to say I
know the pope as my friend.' I said he'd probably get elected the next time,
but he said, 'No, I'm too old.'
“It was a total surprise
[yesterday], because I also thought he was past the age. Since last time he
didn't win, I figured he wouldn't win this time. But here we go: He got
elected. He's not too old…”
Here is another related group that Luis Palau was directing
with Pope Francis (who gave an address to the assembly) in an attempt to bring
us “back” to “fellowship” with Rome’s authority called Reset 2016. The reset
literally is a “repair” or “reversal” of the Reformation. This event was also
related to the Pulse night club shooting here in Orlando for which they kept
the flag at half staff until after this event took place. It was cut short
because of heat, but really as subliminal messaging that America was not yet
ready for a reset (reversal of the Reformation). Lacey Sturm and Lecrae who
partnered with Billy Graham for his final message on the cross were there representing
Billy Graham.
“Confirmed speakers and artists include:
Hillsong United, Kari Jobe, Francis Chan,
Lecrae, Nick
Hall, Passion, Crowder, Kirk Franklin, Ravi Zacharias, Jeremy Camp, Andy Mineo, Michael W. Smith, Lauren Daigle, Christine Caine, Mark Batterson, Matthew West, Jo Saxton, Mike Kelsey,
Casting Crowns, John K. Jenkins, Sr., Josh McDowell, Laurel Bunker, Luis Palau,
Tedashii, Tasha Cobbs, Lacey Sturm, York Moore, Trip Lee, Sammy Rodriguez, Ronnie Floyd, Reid Saunders, Bob Lenz, Jose Zayas, Jennie Allen, Nabeel Qureshi, Ann Voskamp, KB, Christine D'Clario, Matt Maher, Sammy Wanyonyi, Lindsey Nobles, Amena Brown, and Josh Brewer;
with a special message from His Holiness, Pope
Francis.”
***
These next three ministries are all
part of one parent organization called “Life Action Ministries” which directs
also “Revive Our Hearts” and “OneCry” outreaches. https://lifeaction.org/meet-john-avant/
What we noticed here are the influential leaders in the
“Christian” network who Lutzer wants to partner with. First of all, here
is Erwin Lutzer’s endorsement of One Cry revivals tour after he hosted one at
Moody Church:
“Pastors
on Life Action - Dr Erwin Lutzer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43lvjjHHL8
So Lutzer and Moody Church and Moody
Global Media promote this “revival” organization. But look at who else is
supporting and promoting this “revival” being led by these three ministries who
are under Life Action Ministries.
When you see this many influential names backing a particular organization, it
is worth watching. These are not people we would be able to partner with, but
Lutzer does. Their partners include the International Mission Board of the
Southern Baptists, Chuck Colson Center, National Day of Prayer, Billy Graham
Evangelical Association, Luis Palau, Joel Rosenberg, James Robison, Dennis
Rainey, Bob Lepine, Greg Thornton, Ed
Cannon.
Here are the names that
these three “ministries” have as partners:
OneCry Partners
Organizations
Moody Radio
Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.
Sherwood Pictures
Revive Our Hearts
American Family Radio
International Mission Board
Colson Center
National Day of Prayer
Individuals
Luis Palau
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Michael Catt
Meredith Andrews
Dr. Erwin Lutzer
Joel Rosenberg
>
Source: https://onecry.com/partners/
Endorsements for ReviveOurHearts
“…Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends International Disability
Center
Dennis Rainey, FamilyLife Today
Mary Kassian, Girls Gone Wise
Dannah Gresh, Pure Freedom
Bob Lepine, FamilyLife Today…”
>
Source: https://www.reviveourhearts.com/about/endorsements/
Advisory Board of Revive Our Hearts
>
Source: https://www.reviveourhearts.com/about/advisory-board/
So
Billy Graham’s organization promotes this “revival”. Billy Graham is Erwin
Lutzer’s hero, so it makes sense that he would want to partner in whatever
Billy Graham is promoting as the next wave of “revival”. Everyone who is a
Christian should be quite aware of who Billy Graham is in his undermining the
Christian faith toward one-world religion. Here are some of our links to show
who he is, if you are unfamiliar.
> https://www.incpu.org/deceptions-billy-graham.html
>
https://cantontruth.blogspot.com/2008/02/billy-graham-is-33-degree-freemason.html
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZWug3QAvs
>
https://www.incpu.org/evidence-BillyGraham-mason.html
>
https://www.incpu.org/exposing-Mr-Graham.pdf
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZWug3QAvs&t=5s
> https://www.incpu.org/graham-billy-mason-evidence.pdf
There is plenty more to show you about the psychologists and
other fake “Christian” leaders in those Life Action Ministry endorsement lists,
but particularly, I want to notice James Robison who is leading America back to
Rome almost as much as Billy Graham was.
James Robison is the leader of the charismatic, word-of-faith, and also hidden
Fellowship networks’ attempts to help bridge relationships to the pope while
openly praising the pope and trying to reverse the Reformation. Here are some
of the piles of information on James’ partly hidden/partly open efforts.
> https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=15914
>
https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=15830
>
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/44555-why-did-copeland-robison-meet-with-pope-francis
>
https://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/030515-time-is-running-out
>
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2014/09/05/francis-ecumenism-and-the-common-witness-to-christ/
>
https://stream.org/interview-robert-jeffress-renewal-religious-liberty-last-days/
>
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-huckabees-true-calling-94843
>
https://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/092101/rel_092101rel0070001.shtml#.WYPICOvyuUk
Ed Cannon and Greg Thornton are
among those endorsing Life Action “revivals”, so we want you to be aware of
their influence on Moody since they also share in this with Lutzer and Billy
Graham and Luis Palau and James Robison. Here are some examples (in the
following links) of Ed Cannon’s corporate philosophy of downsizing, cuts, and
lay-offs for “efficiency” after working for top leadership of Standard
Oil/Amoco/BP. And now he brings this expertise to MBI’s board of trustees. This
is especially concerning because of major cuts of faculty at MBI and what he
did to Far East Broadcasting Company before this (as explained by Cannon in the
ResourceGlobal.org article in two parts). Besides being on the Board of
Trustees at Moody Bible Institute alongside Jesuit-trained Greg Thornton who he
helped get to be Interim President, Cannon is also on the advisory board of
Revive Our Hearts Ministries alongside Greg Thornton.
After Mr. Cannon’s information links, there are two links of our research on
Mr. Greg Thornton.
>
https://moodyaudio.com/person/ed-cannon
>
https://resourceglobal.org/blogs/interview-ed-cannon
>
https://resourceglobal.org/blogs/2017/12/11/interview-with-ed-cannon-part-2
>
https://www.moodyglobal.org/news/education/2011/leadership-transition/
>
https://www.febc.org/about-us/leadership
>
www.RestoreMBI.com/Problems-at-Moody-GregThornton.htm
>
www.RestoreMBI.com/Problems-at-Moody-GregThornton.pdf
***
As far as Lutzer’s respect and
communication with Billy Graham – here are two further links that show Erwin
Lutzer speaking at Billy Graham’s Retreat Center – the Cove.
SEMINARS
The Inheritance of the Redeemed
with Erwin Lutzer, September 5-7, 2018
>
Source: https://www.thecove.org/all-upcoming-events
“Where is God in Natural Disasters?
By BGEA • April
30, 2014
In this
interview with Dr. Erwin Lutzer, originally published in the wake of the 2011
Japan earthquake and tsunami, the pastor and author answers questions about
God’s role in natural disasters.
On May 27-29, 2014, Dr. Lutzer will hold a seminar at The Billy Graham Training Center
at The Cove. He’ll be discussing “the hidden realities of God’s invisible
world.” Seminar-only tickets are still available, but The Cove’s two inns are
full.”
>
Source: https://billygraham.org/story/where-is-god-in-natural-disasters-2/
This second link above for the speaking seminar is based on the book that Erwin
Lutzer wrote in 2012 for which Franklin Graham wrote the Foreword.
“An Act of God?: Answers to Tough
Questions about God's Role in Natural Disasters Paperback – January 1, 2012
by Erwin W. Lutzer (Author), Franklin Graham(Foreword)”
>
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Act-God-Answers-Questions-Disasters/dp/1414364946
***
Speaking of books, here is our Part 1 of the book report on Erwin Lutzer’s Book Review of Hitler’s Cross: How the
Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda
www.RestoreMBI.com/Lutzer-Hitler-Cross-Pt1.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/Lutzer-Hitler-Cross-Pt1.pdf
In this book review you will see that Lutzer’s
hatred toward God is a lot like Hitler’s philosophy.
We expect to
add two other parts to that book report as we have time, but Part 1 is a pretty
good start to understanding who Erwin Lutzer is by his own words in a way that
he doesn’t admit often. After you see what Lutzer is saying in that book, it
will make perfect sense seeing his partnership with Father Dimitri Sala for
reuniting the Catholic “Church” with all other American “Christian” leadership
networks combined into what Lutzer calls “the one universal, Catholic church”. Father
Sala is the author of the book The
Stained Glass Curtain: Crossing the Evangelical-Catholic Divide to Find Our
Common Heritage.
Erwin Lutzer
has been intentionally hiding his friendship with “Father” Dimitri Sala who
initiated the G11 Pastors Network. Lutzer has had friendships and/or
participated with this group since 2004, so this is a significant influence on
Moody Church’s networks of friendships in Chicago.
Here is (the following several articles) what we found out about Lutzer’s
friendship with Father Sala starting in the first three quotes with their
mutual friend John H. Armstrong – adjunct professor of Evangelism at Wheaton. The
third of those quotes is John Armstrong himself explaining that he has had a
“deep friendship” with Lutzer since the early 1970’s. The fourth and fifth
quotes are Dimitri Sala’s friendship with John Armstrong along with his recognition
of Erwin Lutzer as a friend, followed by his “prestige” of being a Franciscan
monk. We are having to do this because Lutzer is
secretive about his partnerships. So we are finding his friends who will
explain it for us. We found out that John Armstrong was an influential director
of a pastors’ network that Lutzer was part of. So we will start with some information
about John Armstrong.
“John is a member
of several fellowships and societies, including the World Reformed Fellowship,
the Karl Barth Society, the John Calvin Society and the Abraham Lincoln Forum.”
> Source: https://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/about.html
Dr. Ray Pritchard says:
“For several years John led a pastor's group
that included Erwin Lutzer, Colin Smith, Wilbur Ellsworth, Mateen
Elass, Pat Peglow, and
several others from time to time. We met quarterly, ostensibly to discuss some
book we had all read, but mostly to tell stories, get caught up and laugh a
lot.”
> Source: https://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/dr-ray-pritchard/john-armstrong-and-act-3-1369714.html
A Life
Well-Lived: On the death of Erwin Lutzer’s Father
“… Since I was a young pastor in my early
twenties Erwin Lutzer and I have shared a deep friendship. This has led to many
wonderful times of conversation, ministry and prayer. Erwin's dad and mom are
both over 100 years of age. This in itself is a remarkable fact but then his
dad and mom are two rather amazing people. Erwin's dad finally passed away this
week at the ripe old age of 106! Since I have heard so much about Erwin's dad
for most of my adult life I thought it only right to share Erwin's account of
his dad and his passing with all my readers. (If course, I have Erwin's
permission to share this story with you. I also ask you to pray for him in
light of this loss.)
“Here is Erwin's brief account of his dad's amazing
life and his death this week…”
This
is John Armstrong’s endorsement and slick intro for Dimitri Sala:
“… Fr.
Dimitri Sala, a good friend and Catholic priest, has written what I
believe to be a wonderful book: The Stained Glass Curtain: Crossing the
Evangelical-Catholic Divide to Find Our Common Heritage (Lake Mary, Florida: Creation House, 2010). I
would challenge any open-minded Catholic or evangelical reader to buy and read
his book if they doubt that a priest can explain the gospel in a way that
is entirely
faithful to Catholic teaching and evangelical
belief. Fr. Sala writes about what has happened to so many of us over the last
few decades…”
>
Source: https://johnharmstrong.com/must-the-reformation-wars-continue-part-three/
***
Even
though Erwin Lutzer won’t admit the friendship with Dimitri Sala, Mr. Sala
gladly notes his friendship with Erwin Lutzer, for his audience.
In
his book titled “The Stained Glass Curtain: Crossing the Evangelical-Catholic Divide to
Find Our Common Heritage” by Father Dimitri Sala says on page 71:
“… As my friend Dr. Erwin Lutzer pointed out
in one of his books, what they believed to be true, that this was an ordinary
bottle of medicine, in this case actually wasn’t. As a matter of fact, their
misinformation produced an effect exactly opposite of what they expected: what
they thought would help them, actually killed them…”
“Copyright © 2010 Fr. Dimitri Sala, OFM Proudly powered by The
Kingdom Helpers”
>
Source: https://www.thestainedglasscurtain.com/
“Ordo
Fratrum Minorum: Franciscan
Friars
The Order of Friars Minor (OFM) or Franciscan Friars,
founded by St. Francis of Assisi, give themselves totally to God in obedience,
poverty, and chastity.”
>
Source: https://ofm.org/
“FATHER DIMITRI
SALA
Franciscan Friar Dimitri Sala is a Catholic
priest involved full-time in evangelical preaching and apostolic ministry,
combined with a life of prayer. Presently based in Chicago, he provides
spiritual covering and direction for a network of ministries who have a special
burden to evangelize Catholics, and for other Christians who have asked him to
be their apostolic covering. Through his involvement in Harvest Evangelism
since 2006, he has been used to facilitate Ecumenical reconciliation, and has
drawn his network ministries further into Transformation. Father Dimitri has a
heart for unity in the body of Christ which has led him to involvement with
international efforts of reconciliation between Evangelical Protestants and
Catholics. His book, The Stained Glass Curtain, is the product of
these many years of “Crossing the Evangelical-Catholic Divide to Find Our
Common Heritage”…”
>
Source: https://global-conference.transformourworld.org/speaker-father-dimitri-sala/
***
The following article link seems to be a
careful and accurate reply to the deception of Dimitri Sala. We hope that
anyone who knows Catholic doctrine and is willing to give us their assessment
also of this, will help promote it and or caution us on any mistakes. But it
seems pretty solid based on our knowledge of the differences of Old Catholic
dogma to the new sneakier method of infiltrating world religion.
https://propheticalert.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-Dominionist-Ecumenical-Deception.pdf
***
We
would like to discuss one more significant topic related to Erwin Lutzer’s
ecumenical connections. That is his network of “pastor” friends in the Chicago
area. It includes Bill Hybels, James Meeks (who is on the board of trustees at
MBI), James MacDonald (trouble-making friend of Jerry Jenkins), Mark Jobe (who
speaks at conferences at MBI), Joseph Stowell, and several other influential
“Christian” leaders in Chicagoland as they call it. Here are those links and
descriptions of the “gatekeepers” as they call them. This group of G11 “pastors”
was built based on Father Dimitri Sala’s suggestions. The first article is
written by Tony Danhelka who did the calling and work
to organize the group of “pastors”. The second article is Dave Ferguson
explaining his introduction to the group. The third article is the actual
invitation that went to these various “pastors”, which also shows that at the
time, Lutzer was on the Summit Leadership Team. And then we have Lutzer’s brief
comments about the group in the fourth quote.
“… It was Monday February 16, 2004. My wife
Donna had just left to run an errand. I hung up the phone at about 11:55AM. It
had been an encouraging “Spirit led” conversation about God’s heart for
Spiritual awakening over Chicagoland. I had been talking with Father Dimitri
Sala who is an charismatic itinerate Catholic priest
and Evangelist in Chicago. He, Donna and I previously had some good
conversations about prayer, evangelism and revival for Chicago. Today he had
challenged me to try to set up a meeting with Apostle John Eckhardt of
Crusaders ministries to discuss a strategic prayer strategy for Chicagoland.
“It had been my custom on Mondays
to fast and pray for Fox Valley pastors over the noon hour. As I walked to my
place of prayer near my office I had a wonderful sense of God’s presence
prompted by the phone call with Father Sala. Then I heard the words in my
heart…. “Tony, it is time to call some of the primary influential pastors of
Chicagoland together.” I prayed, Lord who would these primary influencers be. A
series of names flooded into my mind. They were names of pastors that Donna and
I had met in large group settings before, but only a few of them would have
known us personally.
“I wrote down the names to share
them with Donna… Carlton Arthurs, John Eckhardt, Bill Hybels, Erwin Lutzer,
James Mac Donald, James Meeks, Mark Jobe and Joseph Stowell. After writing the
names down, I had a bit of a symbolic burning bush experience. I said, “God why
would any of these pastors listen to me? Why are you calling me to do this
instead of some other City Reacher in Chicago? Would
these charismatic and none-charismatic Evangelical leaders of large churches
and networks of churches come together across such diverse lines?” It was as if
God was saying to me… “Yes, they will come into Unity under my Headship, not
necessarily conformity with each other, but unity concerning the essentials.”
After some time of struggle I conceded that I would talk to Donna about our
being willing to write and phone each of these pastors and try to meet with
them to cast the vision of their getting together.
(Editor’s
Note: he thinks that demon is God’s voice speaking)
“Quarterly Meetings:
“They have met quarterly since the
beginning. Many have had private lunches together repenting of differences and
getting to know each other. They have been rotating to each others
facilities to have a tour and see the neighborhoods. The Silent Partners have
become a Task Force of the Gatekeepers Senior Associates. The Task Force meets
with the Gatekeepers for lunch and then discuss ways
they can best support what the Gatekeepers want to do together. The Gatekeepers
have decided to bond together as friends before they do some greater works
together in the arenas of united prayer, blessing the city and caring for the
poor and needy. After a tour of the facility and lunch with the Task Force they
separate into a private room to discuss mutual issues of being a large church
pastor, racism, homelessness, poverty and other related issues. The Gatekeepers
have met with Tony and the Task Force with Donna and Phil…
“Conclusion: Every Pastor a
Gatekeeper!...”
>
Source: https://philsblog.net/2008/05/tony-danhelka-bringing-the-church-of-chicagoland-together/
Dave
Ferguson’s post:
“…
Published March 18, 2007
A couple years ago Tony Danhelka pulled together a group of eight key spiritual leaders in Chicago and called them Gatekeepers. In the group was Bill Hybels, Erwin Lutzer, James Meeks, James McDonald, Mark Jobe, John Eckhardt, Carlton Arthurs and Wilfredo DeJesus
. This group initially got quite a bit of press but has been pretty low-key since then. 3 months ago I got a call from my friend Mark Jobe, who is a part of this group telling me that they would like me to join them. Being a leader and getting the opportunity to connect with guys of this caliber was too good to pass up. I told him to count me in.> Source: https://www.daveferguson.co/gatekeepers/
“Invitation: Chicagoland Quarterly
Pastors Prayer Summit
Date: June
6, 2000 : 11am to 1pm
Location:
TLN (TV 38) Headquarters (1-312-433-3838)
38
South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
“Who: Pastors
& ministers, Men & women
Chris
Barnes, Phillita Carney, Mike Berry,
Cheryl
Dorsey, Kirk Brantner, Claudia
Dunne,
Tony Danhelka, Susanne Marder, Lou
Diaz,
Sheila Straka, John Ericson, Felecia
Thompson,
Dallas
Gordon, Vicky Wauterlek, Doug Harsch,
Erwin Lutzer, Phil
Miglioratti, Roger Thomas…”
“Church Executive
interview with Erwin Lutzer
You meet with a group of area pastors
called G-11. What is that about?
> Source: https://churchexecutive.com/archives/the-ce-interview-erwin-w-lutzer
> Source: https://www.chosenpeople.com/e-Newsletter/rosenbergconferencemedia.html
> Source: https://www.moodyglobal.org/news/radio/2017/2017-robert-neff-award/
“The Dr. Lutzer Shares
the History of John Knox
and Mary Queen of Scots – Listen Now!
June 2 London
Heathrow, welcome dinner, overnight London
June 3 River
Thames lunch cruise, Hampton Palace, overnight London
June 4
Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Oxford
June 6
Scottish Uplands, Firth of Forth, Edinburgh
June 8 St.
Andrews Fortress, St. Andrews Cathedral and University
June 10 Loch
Lomond, Hogback Stone at St. Kessog Church, Glasgow
June 11
Flights home from Glasgow
May 31 London
Heathrow, welcome dinner, overnight London
June 2 Free
day, explore the museums of London or enjoy the incredible shopping areas…”
> Source: https://www.livingpassages.com/christian-tour-2018-erwin-lutzer/
Page 160 of Erwin
Lutzer’s 7 Reasons Why You Can Trust The Bible