AMERICA’S LARGEST CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE CHAIN CLOSING
(Friday
Church News Notes, March 3, 2017, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
Family Christian Stores, America’s
largest Christian bookstore chain, is closing after 85 years (“Family
Christian Stores,” ReligionNews.com, Feb. 23, 2017). The chain’s 240
stores in 36 states will close. Several factors contributed to the
collapse, including an overload of debt which the chain’s owners could
have avoided had they obeyed the precepts of the Bibles they sell.
Chiefly, though, bookstores in general are being overtaken by the
changing of the times. The explosion of the availability of eBooks and
eVideos and the convenience of online shopping is hammering most
traditional “brick and mortar” retailers. From a spiritual viewpoint,
Family Christian Stores were as much a danger as a blessing. They were
filled with corrupt Bible versions, worldly music, and the writings of a
vast number of heretics (e.g., C.S. Lewis, Paul Young, Robert Schuller,
Bruce Metzger, Dallas Willard, Norman Vincent Peale, Max Lucado,
Brennan Manning, G.K. Chesterton, Larry Crabb, Robert Webber, Brian
McLaren, Donald Miller, Erwin McManus, Chris Seay, Donald McCulough,
Philip Yancey, Rob Bell, John Michael Talbot, Tony Campolo, and an
assortment of Roman Catholic mystics). Forty-three years ago, the man
who led me to Christ took me into a Christian bookstore to buy me a King
James Bible and a Strong’s Concordance, and as we were walking through
the store he commented, “There is a lot of spiritual danger in this
store. Beware of false teachers.” He taught me to be wary of false
teaching and to test everything by God’s Word. The word “beware” is
found 16 times in the New Testament. “Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8). (For
more on this see “Dangers in Christian Bookstores” at
www.wayoflife.org, using the search engine.)
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BANKRUPTCY, HERETICAL MATERIALS,
& 3,000+ EMPLOYEES LOSE JOBS IN 240 STORES
INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT ZONDERVAN IN MICHIGAN
WHERE THE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN 1931
HOUSE OF HERESIES CLOSES
Published on Feb 24, 2017
In
this video I discuss and name the heretics that they were peddling and
how God is gracious that he closed these House of Heresies
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