Heretics and Politics by Thomas A. Fudge

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Originally Posted by Sabby

You had better believe it. My senior year 79-80, the CBC Chorale was having a service in Twin Falls, Idaho at Carroll Magruder's church. Because it was a school function the DS's were there. Charley Yadon from Washington, Norman Rutzen from Idaho, Winifred Toole from Oregon, and Ralph Reynolds the school president (he came out of retirement to replace John Klemin).
Rutzen (as the host DS) invited the two other DSs onto the platform, had them all hold hands. He got them moving their hands back and forth and asked everyone in the congregation to "sing" with them, "When we allllll pull together, together, together, when we alllll pull together, how happy we'll be!"
One of the moderators (can't remember which one) got their tongue tangled while mentioning the HISTORY of CBC, and said something very similar to Historicist (not a real timely word to use!) Magruder took the mike after that gentleman and said something to the effect "we'll not have any of that around here"....

The choir director for that event and that school year was Jerry Dillon. He had been on the staff for many years. He was rumored to be non-dispensationalist. Years later Alvin Cobb told me Dillon's eschatology was the same as Br Nigh's.
Jerry got himself into trouble with the Portland area pastors in a class of his I enrolled in called Bible Lands and Customs. This was around the time a Br Johnson (I believe) from California preached the Oregon District Youth Camp meeting, probably '78 or '79. In the class, Jerry taught the hebrew meaning of worship of which he explained to be like a dog licking its master's hand. He criticized those that claimed worship was like running the aisles, rolling on the floor, or dancing feverishly with eyes closed, saying that it might be praise but was not worship. This lit a fuse with a couple of our male students, one in particular. A couple of the students took strong difference with him and would later talk to their pastors (Barlow, Dugas, etc) about the heretic teaching at the bible college.
Back to Br Johnson. He preached at this youth camp, and in one of his sermons he said something to the effect that "God doesn't care if all you have is a bucket of rocks to worship Him with!" The one particular student I mentioned about took it upon himself to spray paint an empty Folger's can, fill it with rocks (not pebbles) and took it upon himself to shake it in our chapel services much like someone would shake a tambourine. It was very obnoxious and it was impossible to truly worship (and very hard to sincerely praise) with cement factory going on.
To this day I can't understand why no one in the school administration did not have the courage to tell him that rocks are not allowed. I have to believe they were fearful of the repercussions.

It is oh so sad to see and hear Christians fighting and slamming one another.