James Robison Joins the Pope's Ecumenical Crusade

James Robison, former Southern Baptist evangelist turned charismatic, has joined hands with Pope Francis to build a one-world church. On his blog, Robison described his June 24 audience with the pope, calling it a “supernatural gathering at the Vatican.” The pope cleverly used “evangelical” terminology to describe his heretical Catholic doctrine, saying that he wanted “everyone to have a personal life-changing encounter with Christ,” ignoring the fact that Rome’s dogma teaches salvation through the sacraments, beginning with baptism. The very gullible James Robison gave the pope a “high five,” thus fulfilling the warning of Romans 16:17-18. Robison wrote, “This week I was blessed to be part of perhaps an unprecedented moment between evangelicals and the Catholic Pope. On Tuesday, for nearly three hours, a few of us were blessed to meet in an intimate circle of prayerful discussion and lunch ... We continued in such glorious fellowship that words could never begin to describe it. I am fighting back tears even as I write, so glorious was the manifest presence of Jesus. I couldn't help but wonder in those moments if Jesus, as He did when Stephen was stoned leading to the conversion of Saul of Tarsus to become Paul the Apostle, perhaps once again stood at the right hand of the Father looking down on that scene in Rome between Evangelicals and the Pope, turn to the Father and say, ‘Look, I think my prayer is about to be answered. Look, Dad...’” (Robison, “Witnessing the Miracle Jesus Prayed For,” JamesRobison.net, June 26, 2014). The papal audience was attended by James and Betty Robison, John Arnott (leader of the “Toronto Blessing” where people screamed, jerked, laughed hysterically, howled like wolves, brayed like donkeys. and clucked like chickens), Tony Palmer, Kenneth Copeland, and others. Palmer, who was the pope’s representative to Pentecostals and who arranged for the pope to send ecumenical greetings to the Pentecostal pastors attending a Kenneth Copeland crusade in February, was killed June 20 in a motorcycle crash.

Photo: Those who met with Pope Francis on Tuesday are, from left, Carol Arnott, the Rev. John Arnott, the Rev. Brian Stiller, the Rev. Kenneth Copeland, Pope Francis, the Rev. Thomas Schirrmacher, the Rev. Geoff Tunnicliffe, the Rev. James Robison, Betty Robison and Bishop Tony Palmer.
(Friday Church News Notes, August 1, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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