WesleyGospel Ministries

Am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
–Galatians 1:10 (ESV)–

Broad is the road that leads to death,
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shows a narrow path,
With here and there a traveler.

Deny thyself and take thy cross,
Is the Redeemer’s great command:
Nature must count her gold but dross,
If she would gain this heav’nly land.

Lord, let not all my hopes be vain,
Create my heart entirely new,
Which hypocrites could ne’er attain,
Which false apostates never knew.

–Isaac Watts, “The Almost Christian”–

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Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1985), p. 3.

The door is open
Now I’m running away
Comfort waits where I will seek
How to free a light for weeks

Can you see me now?
I’ve fallen near the end
Can you see me now?
You hold the end

Succumb to shock and fear
To a climate drawing near
Extending shadows that grip your mind
To whisper its doubt like one of a kind
One of a kind

Culture in jeopardy
A line drawn and feathering
Cut and spread, force feed the false ego
As you philosophize an enemy

Hallucinations dissolve into the floor
There’s no meaning anymore

I see
You are

Reading my mind back to me
It’s clear you are here
Whilst sharing the same air
I can disappear

–Loathe, “I Let It In and It Took Everything”–

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone

Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone

Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall

–Pink Floyd, “Another Brick In the Wall”–

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
–Genesis 1:1 (KJV)–

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
–Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (ESV)–

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AiG, “Christian Education vs. Public School.”

J. Gresham Machen, Education, Christianity, and the State (Trinity Foundation, 2004).

Jeff Farnham, The Octopus of Humanism (Sword of the Lord, 2009).

Dr. John R. Rice, Evolution or the Bible–Which? (Sword of the Lord, 1963).

John Stamper, Conflicted (Master Books, 2023).

IndoctriNation (Gunn Productions, 2011).

John Piper, “‘Atlas Shrugged’ Fifty Years Later: Appreciation and Criticism.”

There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.
–Matthew 24:24 (KJV)–

Love bombing, people saying “I like you,” the holy kiss, and a lot of poor uneducated people. A few superficially redeeming qualities were the interracial Pentecostal aspect, the drug addict ministry, communal care, and even divine healing experiences. But Jones got high on himself and told people to stop communicating with family and friends that didn’t join the Peoples Temple. He’d also separate mothers from their children; and force children to be raised by someone else in the church. He’d drive a wedge between husbands and wives during counseling sessions; and goad them to say cruel things to one another. Romance in marriage was taught as a distraction from the spiritual life; and from the social justice and poverty alleviation concerns of society. This broke up a lot of marriages. Church staff were required to work a minimum of sixteen hours a day. The staff wore special uniforms. Everyone was always exhausted all the time.

Jones would have KKK simulations in church, plays that simulated a black person being lynched, in church. Jones believed that this would happen on a mass scale in America; and that they needed to create a special community to protect themselves from this ever happening to them. And so he controlled them with these irrational fears.

Public humiliation was common: on one occasion many people were whipped with a belt publicly, because somebody drank wine. This cult leader pastor was viewed as a “father,” and the adult church members were viewed as his “children,” who had to trust him, learn from him, and even be physically disciplined by him with extremely sadistic corporal punishment. They even gave electric shocks to little kids! Strangely enough, these were regular people from Wesleyan church backgrounds, like Church of the Nazarene and Assembly of God. One young lady was even beaten seventy five times with a board! People were threatened with divine judgments if they didn’t give 30% of their incomes to the church. Actual death threats were given like in a gang–so people would be afraid to leave the church.

“All that believed were together, and had all things common” (Acts 2:44). This verse was used to manipulate people to sell their property and give the money to the church. Jones hoarded $26 million for himself. Finally he led them off to Guyana to form a community called Jonestown, named after himself, where he made them all drink poisoned Kool-Aid; and finally pressured them all one last time: into an act of mass suicide. –J.B.