Open Letter to Pastor Rod Parsley

By Charles Carlson

ccun.org, August 12, 2008

Rod Parsley, Pastor

World Harvest Church

4595 Gender Road

Canal Winchester, OH 43110

Dear Pastor Parsley:

Project Strait Gate will hold a "Vigil for Peace with Justice" at your church on Sunday, August 10, 2008, at 9:00 AM.  It will be a quiet and respectful intervention directed to your attendees. Project Strait Gate challenges apostasy of Judeo-Christian-Zionism, which can be defined as the belief that:

The present day State of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophesy 

  You are a prominent supporter of John Hagee's A Night To Honor Israel.  In some respects you go even beyond John Hagee in your openly stated vitriolic condemnation of Islam. You want to bomb Iran, and you are accurately quoted as saying that America was founded in part to destroy Islam.

  I quote from our invitation and Press Release Dated July 22, 2008:

  Rod Parsley is pastor of the 13,000 member, World Harvest Church that teaches Judeo-Christian-Zionism.  Pastor Parsley is one of the prominent supporters of John Hagee's "A Night To Honor Israel" and is Regional Director of Christians United For Israel.

  In some respects Parsley goes even beyond Hagee in his openly stated hatred for Islam, which he attaches to activist politics, ignoring Jesus' words of peace and love.  He has also defiled the name of our forefathers by publicly stating that America was founded partly for the purpose of destroying Islam.

Parsley has, for years, raised donations to free 29,771 slaves in Sudan by his own claim, supposedly buying them from slave traders and setting them free.  But the evidence and first hand testimony since as early as 2002 have overwhelming refutes that there is any organized slave trade in Sudan, and reveals that supposed "slave reparations" are largely fund raising photo-ops that benefited armed revolution in Sudan.  Parsley has fostered fear and hatred of Islam in the minds and hearts of his followers that include school children, college students, and youth groups under his influence, some of whom are known to have donated money to "free slaves" as late as June, 2008. 

Come; help speak out for peace and justice for all men before this big congregation.  Some of them will agree with you. Signs and hand-out literature are furnished; examples are:

WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

NO MORE WARS FOR ISRAEL

IRAQ? WWJD? (what would Jesus do)

CHOOSE LIFE, NOT WAR.

ROD PARSLEY'S RACISM KILLS PALESTINIANS

APOSTATE CHURCH Christ Followers Must Not Kill

THERE ARE NO SLAVES IN SUDAN, ask me

Pastor Parsley, I have noticed you take a very strong "Pro-Life" position.  Good!  But I prayerfully request that you consider the lives and God-given rights of these precious individuals all over the world who are already born and are on the receiving end of the wars you and others are so willing to support and fan to flame, including Iran and Sudan.  I invite you to show me in the New Testament where Jesus would accept the killing of another man's children around the world from us. 

Pastor Parsley, we are sorry if you too were taken in about Sudan or war in Iran.  If you made a mistake you need too own up to it and repent.  Your promotional movie, I'm From Sudan, is about money to free slaves.  Money is not from God no matter how often you tell your congregation otherwise.  But planting hatred in the minds and hearts of men separates them from Jesus Christ, who said Love your enemies.  Jesus leaves no room for race hatred of any tribe.

You can learn more about the purpose of Project Strait Gate on our website.  If you search you will also find many articles on Sudan going back to 1997.  I hope you will come out and meet me on August 10th.

Toward the Strait Gate, Charles E. Carlson, Director

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