ROY
CLEMENTS OF EDEN CHAPEL, UK
A Journal into Apostasy The
background is a maze. This speaks of life in the churches of the UK. There
seem to be sound and godly folk in many assemblies, yet Holy Trinity Brampton,
hyper-Calvinism, and ecumenism keep the true saints confused and going up dead
ends and wandering about looking for sound Bible teaching. Praise God, our
Lord has His remnant in the UK though.
THE NEWS ITEM IN THE
PRESS AND OUR COMMENT: PREACHER TURNS QUEER-- One of Britain's best
known evangelical preachers has left his wife and children to set up home with
another man, it emerged today. Dr Roy Clements, 53, has resigned from the management
council of the Evangelical Alliance, which represents more than one million Christians
in 30 denominations, saying he was having a relationship with another man. The
scum head trashed three kids, his wife, and 29 years of marriage. He also walked
away from his pulpit. 2 Peter
2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak
evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their
own corruption;
COMMENTARY BY OUR ANONYMOUS SOURCE
IN THE UK Have just visited Balaam's Ass. What met our eyes but the
news of Roy Clements! I was stunned. Can we then now expect anything? I think
so. It all underlines what we know and believe about these places. The rot has
been there for years. We have not seen the last yet, I fear. The reason
we write is that we were members of Clement's Church, Eden Chapel, Cambridge during
the time of the period of the previous pastor Dr David Smith, a man who now questions
a literal interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis. We joined them after
being kicked out of the 'Brethren' assemblies for refusing to work with (compromised
Christian workers elsewhere). There was a major crisis in Eden Chapel
some years back when a Christian worker preached on the characteristics of the
Laodicean Church at one Sunday evening service: blind men who thought they could
see! Although he innocently thought he was preaching a challenging message, it
apparently split the Church and the Christian worker was black listed; some were
indeed challenged, others fumed! How dare these men pontificate to
us on matters of Bible versions! How dare they! _________________________
LATER COMMUNICATION BY OUR SOURCE: I am still quite astounded
re: Roy Clements. Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves. It
is just a matter of time before God steps in to sort things out. When the cup
of iniquity is full, God invariably acts. This is obviously what happened at Eden
Chapel. It was at Eden Chapel that I got my first copy of NIV. The pastor
promoted it. It is therefore not surprising to find then a subsequent pastor turning
out to be a sodomite. The shockwaves are going to be very far reaching.
Eden Chapel, Cambridge, was never any run-of-the-mill evangelical Church. On Sunday
it used to be packed to the doors with students from the university. The connections
with the Evangelical Alliance (thoroughly neo-evangelical) developed during Clements'
time. When we were members, there was a separatist stance, we would not otherwise
have been members. This obviously changed at some point. 'Mixed' Churches
are often more dangerous than obviously apostate ones. When we were members there,
there were some very fine folk in the Church, with whom we had rich fellowship.
One such was Basil Atkinson, deputy librarian at the university. He was a very
godly and saintly man who left the Church of England for fellowship among despised
Baptists. He was also a very learned man, but until he opened his mouth, you could
have easily mistaken him for a plumber or a carpenter. But there were also
lots of marvellous ordinary folk who loved the Lord and we often had them visiting
our home. The 'town and gown' (town versus university) class distinction
was hardly detectable in the Church then. After his retirement from Westminster
Chapel, the renouned London preacher and successor to Campbell-Morgan Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
was often seen in the congregation and preached from time to time. This
man, whose views are not always thoroughly biblical, nevertheless called for churches
to leave their apostate denominations way back in the 60s, causing a split between
himself and J I Packer, and he caused a tremendous rumpus by speaking out against
Billy Graham when others had not yet seen through him. It is therefore strange
that his son-in-law, Fred Catherwood, should be pulling people in the opposite
direction - he was at one time chairman of the Evangelical Alliance. Even in his
day, C.H. Spurgeon withdrew from them because of their doctrinal ambivalence.
_____________________ Editor: My source must remain anonymous-- No
one knows his identity.
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