Is Anne Graham Lotz Conservative?

Ann Graham Lotz

A few years ago a preacher friend mentioned that he had been listening to some conservative evangelicals, including Anne Graham Lotz (not something I would advise), and he observed, “This Anne lady should have been a man. She makes some very good points, better than her dad Billy and her brother Franklin. She even talks about sin, repentance, hell, demons, earnest prayer, revival, about Israel in a favourable light, etc. There are a very small group of evangelicals that seem good on a few things.” I replied that for years I have noticed that Franklin Graham and Anne can talk a good talk, sounding stronger than their dad, but they walk in the same terribly disobedient footsteps. I have seen this same thing on the part of evangelicals that I have heard at various conferences and on visits to their churches. You sometimes find yourself thinking that you are listening to a true Biblicist who has a zeal for the truth, but then you realize that what they say and what they do are in great contradiction. Anne indicated to Kyra Phillips of CNN on April 8, 2005, that Pope John Paul II might be in heaven. She applauded the Pope’s efforts “to bridge the gaps between Protestants and Catholics and Jews and Catholics” (CNN.com, transcripts). She said, “The wonderful thing, in Rome I’ve heard people say the Holy Father is in heaven and everybody is so confident that the Pope is in heaven. And I think it’s because he was such a good man.” This is in spite of the fact that the spiritually-blind pope held to a false gospel of salvation through Rome’s sacraments, beginning with baptismal regeneration, and devoted himself 100% to Mary. Anne represented her father at that Pope’s funeral. How could a true Bible believer praise the Pope? It is great confusion. It has been said of Billy Graham that he is “Mr. Facing Both Ways,” and the same can be said of the entire Graham family, yea, pretty much the entire world of “evangelicalism.” This is because they have renounced “separatism” and they believe in a “big tent” of fellowship and ministry which requires a tremendous amount of compromise. In 2005, Anne preached at a conference in Russia sponsored by the extremely modernistic Baptist World Alliance (BWA) (“Baptists Unveil New Strategy for Evangelism,” Assist News Service, Aug. 3, 2005). Denton Lotz, General Secretary of the BWA, is Anne’s brother-in-law. In 2007, she joined with Samuel Kobia, president of the wretchedly apostate World Council of Churches, in a conference in India. Kobia doesn’t preach the redemption of the soul through the blood of Christ; he preaches the false gospel of redemption of society through socio-political work (“WCC Head Calls for Change in Famed Ecumenical Motto,” Christian Post, April 28, 2007). Like other conservative evangelicals, Anne Graham Lotz is acceptable to many Bible believers, even while subtly drawing them into fellowship with the one-world church. In truth, these are very dangerous people. Anyone who genuinely loves the truth will demonstrate the Psalmist’s hatred of error, but we don’t see this even in the most conservative of evangelicals. “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalm 119:128). (For more documentation on these subjects see the report “Liberal Baptist Denominations” and the free eBooks Billy Graham and Rome, Billy Graham’s Sad Disobedience, and The World Council of Churches, at www.wayoflife.org.)

(Friday Church News Notes, July 5, 2019, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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