Could someone shed a little light on this blog post of Paul Chappel, dated August 5, 2012, speaking of the Schaap incident of 2012:
"The pastor involved in the current situation is Jack Schaap from Hammond, Indiana. Some years ago, a number of us realized we could not fellowship with him due to some of his teachings and practices. (I clearly stated our philosophy which outlines the basis for our fellowship in a book I wrote fifteen years ago, Guided by Grace). Sadly, when well-intentioned men tried to warn him, he would not receive it."
What exactly was the "teaching [or] practice" over which Chappel broke fellowship with Schaap?
I don't know what Paul Chapel disagreed with Schaap on but I will give you the items that changed wherher you agreed with the change or think he was right on them i don't care to argue. These are the doctrinal and other changes that came into the church in which I wrote letters to him and staff. I was not staff nor a deacon. I did have an official volunteer involvement which had cause for me to scrutinize the sermons in detail for error of which there were multitudes. Some men including myself were praying for God to change him or remove him. And we who could "slow walked" national exposure due to the overwhelming arrogance.
Again if you believe he was right on these issues I will not argue. But they were not historical FBCH positions.
Pastor School Sermon "For Christ's Sake" where he made up a conversation between a vegenful God who hated mankind and a loving Jesus who stood between God and Man and said I will Go to soothe the Father's wrath. Lowering God and ascribing characteristics than were more human than God.
Pressed and told several of us that he wanted the music to be like Brooklyn Tabernacle.
Music Changes The song "Lord I believe in you" which was a 1999 Crystal Lewis Christian Rock Anthem 16 weeks at #1 as the main song at Pastor School. When confronted over this issue prior to Pastor School he stated "I suppose Amazing Grace was #1 at one time too."
The High School Band began to play Rock Songs from the 60's and 70's complete with Back Beat. Louis Loius is one I remember
In one sermon I was shocked. A book I reviewed for a website I was editor of Rapture Ready/Prophecy Fellowship in which I warned against it 2 years prior, the storyline was use as an Illustration in a sermon. The book is a heretical book that teaches God comes to you in various forms to allow you to handle the Who of who He is and tells the hurt one in the story there are many paths to God as this god is a african-american woman. Later I had come to find out He was giving this book out to those who had been hurt and/or abused. The even later I had come to find out his newly installed Youth Pastor was doing the same with the teens,
About the same time he stirred an unneeded controvery as he decided to use his english degree and teach us and the rest of IFBdom the meaning of inspired as he chose this as an occasion to state the King James Version of the Bible was not 'Inspired" as he defined it as God breathed the words and thus God did not breathe out the words in English as he placed his less than doctrinally sound and experienced son to educate us all in a national teleconference. Then calling "Preserved Inspiration" a "Damnable Heresy".
The Book The Divine Intimacy in which he unartfully tried to explain the intimacy between a married couple and Christ and the church in which several key doctrinal and just plain weird interpretations of scripture we eisegeted including Psalm 119:30 ‘I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.’ interpreting "Laid" as gutter slang for sexual intercourse. Furthermore using pictures of our physical intimacy to show understanding of our intimacy with Jesus. Now this is a common Biblical teaching and taught by a wide variety of preachers Evangelical and Baptist alike, Physical pictures always were a depiction of an aspect of our relationship with Jesus eg Song of Solomon. Completely Pure teaching of love and relationship. Even the physcal act of marriage portrays rightly so, an aspect of intimacy (non sexual, so don't get weird on me) with Jesus. What Schapp did was to make physical pictures then equate to other physical pictures and came up with the lacivious idea that communion/Lord Supper was equivelent of a type of cosmic sex with God. He then went on to do the same with Psalm 119:31 “I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.”
He taught that unrepentant sin could be in "remission" seperating action from standing and allowing iniquitous living and a right standing before God.
He taught that coming forward in an invitation and praying at the altar was a statement stating you were in agreement with the preaching.
He would not allow correction. He would not allow Matthew 18 confrontation.
Later it was determined that there were many lies told to the church concerning the finances of the church. A 17 Million dollar Building program was realized after his ejection was 48 million never vored on. His dealings with a business man who was used in funding much of the other downtown projects was less than transparent. When questiones by anyone concerning these finances he would state "I got this".
As you can determine, the fall of Jack Schaap wasn't a slight error in jugement or even a season of sin. It was a pride filled head long run into self agrandizement, unbiblical teaching, and rebellion against God in every way possible.
All of this pales in comparison to the outright unspeakble, abhorent blaspemies he used to groom the girl that he committed is evil upon. I was sick to my stomach when they were published when his lawyer tried to justify that his supposed good mitigated his evil. I truly understood for the first time what abomination meant. Lately I have found this very common among the NAR charasmaniacs in most every case of SA (Look Into Mike Winger (CC Taught, EV Free pastor) on youtube. Not an endorsement). To be so common as they did not learn it from each other I can only conclude it is a demonic instruction.
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