| TRANSCRIPTION
OF A 90 MIN. AUDIO TAPE RECORDED BY
RANDY SHAFER - From Colorado Springs
USA…2/2/1997.
The Bible teaches that "As
many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God".
This tape is intended to "Focus
in on Focus On The Family".
Most of the material that you are
going to hear in this 90 minute tape is
documented material. If it is an
opinion, I will so state, because I have
literally hundreds of pages of
documentation on what you are about to
hear. You are going to hear `clicking'
from time to time. This is because I
could not possibly arrange the papers so
that this would flow, therefore I have
to be constantly shutting the recorder
off and on as I move from subject to
subject.
Allow me to begin by saying simply
that I am a 66 year old man, I have
spent 4 years and 10 months at Focus On
The Family, I began with them in 1991
and my employment with them was
terminated on October 3rd, 1996. I
believe that James Dobson is the
greatest threat to the true church of
Jesus Christ in the world today. Through
radio it is quite possible that he has
done more to undermine the foundations
of true Christian faith than any person
since the church was founded two
thousand years ago. Big statement? Yes!
Think I'm exaggerating? But give me the
opportunity to offer to you documented
material and then you make up your mind
as to where you stand on Focus On The
Family.
James Dobson is a dangerous man - he
is an ecumenist, he has psychologised
Scripture that takes away the authority
of Scripture and he is also a very, very
adamant political activist and I am
going to give you documented proof of
all of those allegations.
In the process of time of working
with Focus On The Family, after about
one year and a half, or a year or a
little over into my employment, I began
to see many things that disturbed me. I,
like many of you came to Focus On The
Family believing that I had arrived on
the front porch of heaven itself but I
began to realize that Biblical
`counseling' was not normal at Focus On
The Family. Then there were many other
things that I had heard and I soon began
to change my mind about what Focus On
The Family really stood for and where
James Dobson was really coming from.
At that point I coined a word, I
called this word "Dobsonology"
- basically it describes my observations
of James Dobson and Focus On The Family
and what they really are. It defines
James Dobson and Focus On The Family.
Here is "Dobsonology"
defined:
Dobsonology is a mixture of
psychology, humanism, New Age, political
activism and ecumenism packed in a
silver box of morality, it is tied with
a golden ribbon of assorted Scriptures -
not necessarily in context. It is being
sold to the Christian Community in lieu
of biblical authority through sound
doctrine by James Dobson and his Focus
On The Family Organization.
Let us first draw attention to the
devisive, deceiving Statement of Faith -
a Statement that was made by
correspondents of James Dobson. His
Statement of Faith reads simply:
We believe the Bible to be the only
infallible, authortative Word of God. We
believe that there is only one God,
eternally existent in three persons -
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe
in the diety of our Lord Jesus Christ,in
His virgin birth,in His sinless life,in
His miracles, in His vicarius and
atoning death through His shed blood and
His bodily resurrection in His ascention
to the right hand of the Father and in
His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that for salvation of lost,
sinful man that regeneration by the Holy
Spirit is absolutely essential. We
believe in the present ministry of the
Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the
Christian is able to live a godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both
the saved and the lost, they that are
saved unto the resurrection unto life
and they that are lost unto the
resurrection of damnation. We believe in
the spiritual unity of believers in our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, let us do a `flip-flop' here -
that sounds good, and I really can't
fault it - that Statement of Faith. But
awhile back, a man named Martin
Bobgan was writing a book "Prophets
of Psycho-heresy Two" had
written Focus On The Family about some
of his concerns, as usual, Dobson did
not respond to his mail, but rather
hands the material over to the so-called
master writers who search the computers
for Dobson's mind on a given matter.
Let me quote some things James Dobson
said in response to the letter from
Martin Bobgan.
Quote -
Now when you read the Statement of
Faith of Focus On The Family and you
hear James Dobson's statement concerning
the question about their direction,
which is it? Will the real Jim Dobson
please stand up!
Let us take a look at Focus On The
Family training. In the fall of 1995
they published a book, about 80 pages,
called simply "The Education
Calendar". They had also hired a
lady named Jan Orler (sic) to head up
the new training programmes of Focus On
The Family. She has since resigned from
the Focus staff but of course - is an
advisor - I assume it is more lucreative
to advise than to be on the staff - but
that I don't know.
There is nothing wrong with training
people - every company does it - but
ministry should approach it from a
Biblical standpoint using Biblical
methodology. Training methods can be
important, but allow me to introduce
this by telling you that in November of
1992 because of many concerns I had Mr.
Stan John, then director of Focus On The
Family Distribution invited me to his
office where we ended up in a two hour
session.
He allowed me about fifteen minutes
to share my concerns with him and then
proceeded for another hour and 45
minutes to tell me about his great
expertise and experience in training. At
this point he also told me that he
wanted to introduce into Focus On The
Family `Megatrends Training'.
Megatrends is a very thick book which
you can probably obtain from your
library should you care to check in on
the training methods and where it leads.
Basically they seem to focus in on
something called `Management by
Objective' in their training. Now this
means simply that the company sets the
objectives and than of course that those
who work for that company are expected
to meet them.
There is really not all that wrong
with that, depending on what the
objectives are. In ministry, certainly
Bible objectives would be expected.
However, that is not necessarily so. On
page 80 of the booklet that I mentioned
to you earlier - their Education
Calendar - they have suggested two
sources for their facilitators - that
is, their teachers, where they might
obtain material that would be useful in
the training of Focus employees.One is
called simply "Game Trainers -
Play" by Edward Schonnel (sic).
However the second book is of great
concern. It is called the "Encyclopaedia
of Group Activities" and Focus,
I am told has a copy of that in their
library.
I do know that it took a researcher a
great deal of time to obtain at least
part of this material - had to go all
the way to Denver to a library to get a
copy and I am going to pursue to read
just a few of the training methods
offered in this book that Focus On The
Family has suggested would be good
material - would be good resource
material, I guess was the way I should
read it - for training methodology.
Allow me to read excerpts of three or
four of these activities that are
supposed to be good material for the use
by facilitators in the training of
employees. We are going to find such
words as `values clarification', `synogy',
`consensus', you will have alluding to
`out of body experiences', the use of
candles and other occultic methodology
such as deep breathing are all a part of
it. I obviously cannot read a very large
portion of over 150 practical designs
for successful facilitators. But I can
give you a cross-section of three or
four.
Consensus alwaysis the beginning of
something like this. Consensus,
basically, is bringing people to a point
of agreement, at least by majority. The
Bible seems to teach that the majority
are not always right - if I remember
correctly. Here is one called
"Obituaries" - number three in
the goals areas is to encourage
self-disclosure. The facilitator gives
out paper and pencils and asks each
person to a write a series of one
paragraph obituaries. One for herself,
one for every other group member and one
for the group itself. Interesting!
What about survival of the fittest?
The facilitator asks the participants to
fantasise that they are stranded on a
desert island and that in order to
survive, four members of the group must
be eliminated. The participants are told
that the majority vote is allowed and
that failure to eliminate four members
will mean everyone's destruction due to
a serious shortage of food and water.
The group is to spend 30 minutes
selecting four members to be eliminated
- you cannot volunteer to be eliminated.
I think you will find this is nothing
more than adaptation of the old New Age
Life Boat Game.
Here is another - called `The Animal
Journey'. Close your eyes and imagine an
animal that you relate to in some way.
Imagine the animal's surroundings - try
to get in touch with the animal`s needs
and desires - now become that animal.
Try to associate yourself with its
movements, posture and temperament.If
you feel comfortable in doing so,
physically assume your animal's posture.
After pausing for a few moments, the
facilitator will give further
instructions. Slowly come out of your
fantasy, leave your imagined animal and
become yourself. This is `out of body'
experience, people!
Here is the breath of life. For
heightening effect, it is suggested a
room lit only by candlelight. I believe
that is the way the Devil-worshippers
worship their god, isn't it? The
facilitator gives the following
introduction:
Although breathing is essential to
life - we often take it for granted -
awareness of our breathing can often
give us greater insight into our
feelings and thoughts. Now we are going
to engage in an activity designed to
help develop that awareness. I would
like you to spread out within the room,
remain standing with your eyes closed.
Begin to breathe slowly and deeply, let
your entire body flow with the motion of
your breathing, in and out, in and out.
Let your arms hang loosely, let your
head rock slowly, now begin to feel
anxious, again become aware of your
breathing. When it appears that the
participants have truly reached a point
of experiencing anxiety, the facilitator
says "become angry", let
yourself experience the stored up anger
and hostility that you have been
carrying around with you, begin to pant,
let your body become tense. Get in touch
with your anger, feel the anger,
experience the anger, feel and be aware
of your breathing and your body. Then
after several minutes, the facilitator
continues - slowly let your anger
subside.
Pandora's Box has to do with values
clarification. Process: I would like you
to spread out on the floor, close your
eyes and relax, breathe evenly and
deeply. After a few minutes the
facilitator gives these additional
instructions:
Take a couple of minutes to reflect
on your vices and your virtues, your
strengths and your weaknesses - as your
vices and virtues fly out and flood the
room I will identify them, when you hear
me call the vice that you can most
identify with, reach out and grab it.
Lying around on the floor? I do sure
hope that the ladies do not wear
dresses.
One more - this is called
"Fantasy Exploration". The
facilitator describes how fantasy can be
an indicator of values and then invites
the participants on a fantasy trip. The
facilitator tells the participants to
lie down in a comfortable position on
the carpet, to close their eyes, to
become aware of their breathing and to
breathe deeply - in and out. Then the
facilitator begins the fantasy - as you
breathe in and out let yourself become
relaxed, become aware of your body,
explore your body, if you feel tension
in any muscle, tighten the muscle, hold
it, tense it, hold it, now relax it and
as you relax, let the relaxation flow
throughout your body. Continue to
breathe deeply, in and out, make sure
you are in a comfortable position,
breathe in and out, and finally the
facilitator distributes copies of the
fantasy worksheet along with pencils and
he briefly explains the code, avoiding
controversy over specific items.
The participants are given 10 to 15
minutes to record what they imagined on
their fantasy trip again we are lying
around on the floor.
You will remember in the beginning
that I told you that one of the great
objectives of all of this is to bring
people to consensus, that is, the
majority rules. The majority are right,
but not necessarily so.
This all began with a mission
statement - almost three years ago now.
Many quit over this mission statement
and one man that I know of was fired.
They spent thousands of dollars trying
to get people to agree to the mission
statement that I am going to read to you
next.They were unable to do it and so as
is usually the case they mandate the
mission statement if they cannot bring
the group to consensus. Therefore since
they could not, at least in our group,
some did, some did not. Management took
this to be their mission statement.
Mission statement for distribution
centre - As devoted change- agents for
Christ and solely through His power in
us, we will unite as a team to achieve
recognition as a world-class
distribution centre. We will strive to
be unsurpassed in our development of
people and process and our stewardship
of technology and resources in so doing
we will accomplish unimaginable impact
for the cause of Jesus Christ.
Now they spent thousands of dollars
to get people to agree to this and they
simply wouldn't.
Why? Well, for one thing, `change
agents Christ'?
The only change agents for Jesus
Christ is the Holy Spirit using the Word
of God in the powerful conviction that
only He can bring. And then they want to
achieve recognition as a world-class or
global distribution centre? These are
New Age terminologies and New Age goals
- globalism and it all came as a starter
for the new age training that Focus
expected people to participate in.
Before we go to another subject, I
want to explain to you just very briefly
what management by objective is.
Basically the Company sets objectives
and you are expected to meet them. It
really isn't bad on the surface but when
it enters in to so called `ministry' and
you are expected to go along with the
things that are not Biblical, that is
another matter.
What happens if you don't meet those
objectives? Well, you are considered to
be a dissenter. This means simply, that
you can be frozen in pay, or that you
will never have another opportunity to
advance to another position. If that
doesn't bring you around and you are
still a dissenter, probably you are
going to find a pay- cut, whatever
reasons they give will have to suffice
and if that doesn't do it, it can end in
simply being terminated. All of those
things did happen to me by process. It
is only fair to tell you that the main
reason I was dismissed, and there were a
number, was because they discovered that
I was gathering information to share
with those outside about Focus
direction. There were many other
reasons, long before they discovered
this, they had been doing the N.B.O. job
upon me.
You need to know that in
1995,according to Management's figures,
approximately 30 percent of Focus
employees were either fired or quit I do
not know the figures for 1996. I do know
that they lost a number of key
management personnel including
vice-presidents and their C.O.O.
It is my guess that there were quite
a number of people over and above 1995
who either were fired or quit. That
information is forthcoming - I still
lack a document and I don't think it is
pertinent to the subject now. But when
one out of three approximately, one out
of three of staff either leaves or were
dismissed in a year, I think it suggests
a real problem.
Next, let us take a look at James
Dobson the ecumenist. I was present at
this board meeting and document this
statement, the source was Steve
Alesaquez (sic), manager of the shipping
department for the distribution centre
of Focus On The Family the date was
Thursday, November 2nd, 1995.
Quote:
"At a recent - that is,
last week, Focus board of directors'
meeting, the 10 member board voted 5
to 5 on Dobson's meeting with the
Pope. It was decided will not take
place at this time since it was a
divided vote. James Dobson wishing to
meet the Pope? I also have a copy
here, a xerox copy of simply the
outside of a letter which was sent to
the president of the Pontifical
Council for the Family, Vatican City
State in August of 1995. There is
correspondence and there has been
other correspondence going on between
Focus and the Vatican and various
Catholic organizations around the
country.
Item No. 2 on James Dobson - Focus On
The Family and ecumenism. On May 2nd,
1995, this little brochure called "The
Interfaith Alliance" was
sent to all of the Family research
institutes - Family Institutes, Family
Councils of the various States around
the United States. These are supposedly
people who are working on behalf of the
families, more or less - an activist
group. There were a number of people
mentioned on the board of directors of
the Interfaith Alliance in this brochure
who are National Council of Churches
members, or they are Rabbis or they are
involved in the Roman Catholic Church.
One in particular, a Dr. Albert M.
Penneybacker (sic), President of the
Ecumenical and Development Initiative
which served both the National and World
Council of Churches - and he is a
professor of Ecumenical Studies at
Lexington Theological Seminary in
Lexington, Kentucky. Focus inserted
these in their mailings to those that I
mentioned earlier.
Locally, we have a Rabbi named Howard
J. Hirsch (sic). Let me give you a
quote.
"The 20th Century has
witnessed the tragic descent of
Jewish-Christian relations to their
lowest level in 2,000 years. I believe
that the closing years of the 20th
century and the initial years of the
21st century are a special time of
grace, a time of grace when Jews and
Christians can take a fresh look at
our common heritage and our mutual
need to work - to work together - that
is, to enrich our lives with love,
gentleness and understanding.
If I remember Romans 1:16 rightly -
the gospel is to the Jew first and also
to the Greek and we are to love the
Jewish people, we certainly do not have
that much in common. They have still
rejected Jesus Christ, their Messiah.
And guess who signed on as one of the
board of directors of what they are
calling "The Centre for
Christian/Jewish dialogue in Colorado
Springs? None other than Dr.
James Clayton Dobson, President of Focus
On The Family!
The next one - although I do not have
the exact date, I believe it might have
been 1994 - a group of local religious
leaders took out a 4 page advertisement
in the Gazette Telegraph, the local
newspaper. It says simply -
"A message to the people
of Colorado Springs - it
continues:
We the undersigned have
entered into a covenant with each
other, and it is called "The
Covenant of Mutual Respect",
Catholics, Protestants and Jewish
Leaders signed this agreement.
I am not going to read it all, it is
a little bit lengthly, a couple of
lengthly paragraphs and we have an hour
and a half tape. But the second signer
was James Dobson, President of Focus On
The Family - still another ecumenical
move on Dobson's part.
In May of 1996, the Board of
Directors had a meeting - the Board of
Directors of Focus On The Family. It was
decided by the B. of D. that likely
James Dobson and Chuck Colson were the
two men chosen of God to call the nation
back to righteousness. A memo was issued
to the staff, that is, all of the staff,
not just the management staff, that a
memo would be forthcoming explaining in
detail how they would go about calling
the nation back to righteousness.
I found it interesting that on my
last day at Focus, I sat in a meeting at
the distribution centre along with about
75 other people to hear a Mr. Dwight
Grant, director of the Distribution
Centre make this statement:
"There has been a little
problem with the memo that they had
promised they were going to explain
the plan to call the nation back to
righteousness." He then dropped
his head, smiled, shuffled his feet
and said - "They are having a
problem defining
`righteousness'."
I have in my tape files a copy of
James Dobson addressing his key
management persons. He critique the
board of directors meeting at which time
it had been decided likely that he and
Chuck Colson would as early as 1997,
perhaps even hold meetings calling the
nation back to righteousness. Actually,
it is an ecumenist move.
He detailed that Focus On The Family,
while the staff did not necessarily
understand the larger picture, needed to
know, had a plan. Then he paused, and
then he said - "A global
plan". He went on to
explain that this would begin with a
meeting of America's larger church
pastors and then at a later time, they
would meet with smaller church pastors,
this perhaps in groups. He didn't go
into much detail of that.
One of the groups that they had hoped
to meet with was the liberal Catholic
Church. Now he did not state this, when
he was talking to his key personnel,
this came out a little later in the
letters that were sent. These letters
were letters of invitation to pastors in
the United States. At least two letters
were sent, they were sent, as I earlier
mentioned to America's largest church
pastors and specifically to
representatives of the Liberal Catholic
Church.
These letters were sent out by H.A.
London, vice president of New Ministry
Outreach and Pastoral Ministries for
Focus On The Family. London is the
cousin of James Dobson. All who attended
this one- day meeting, they would come
in, they would be put up overnight at
Focus' expense in a hotel or motel and
their meals would be furnished. The
meetings were to have taken place on
Monday August 26th through Tuesday
August 27th. It never happened, possibly
because the `word' got out.
Focus On The Family went so far as to
plead with the representatives of the
Liberal Catholic Church to join them for
what would be a `memorable event', and
if they couldn't, please send
representatives in their place - two
designated representatives - this is the
exact quote.
Now I want you to take a look at what
the Liberal Catholic Church is, and then
I have a question - why was James Dobson
trying to involve with leading American
pastors, people from the Liberal
Catholic Church. Ecumenism, I would say
to the `nth' degree.
Let us take a look at the Liberal
Catholic Church and what they really are
and what they stand for:
Here are some of the publications I
think, to begin with.
The Goddess Religions,
Gnostic Christianity,
Eastern Mysticism,
Mystical States of Consciousness,
Reincarnation in Christianity?,
The Feminine Aspect of Divinity.
They also have a booklet of course,
on meditation.
They say its mystical approach to
Christianity represents the position of
the Liberal Catholic Church.
They also emphasise the commonality of
all religions.
Those who wrote received this letter
-
"Thank you for your
interest in the Liberal Catholic
Institute for Studies.
As an institute, we are
dedicated to the teaching of esoteric,
mystical traditions of
Christianity."
I have a number of documents on this
organization, among other things, of
course, they teach reincarnation and
recognize the validity and unity of all
religions - there is your ecumenical
approach again - they teach Christianity
of the Cosmic Christ and they administer
the 7 sacrements in an atmosphere of
intellectual freedom - of course.
As nearly as I can ascertain from
literature, there are approximately 1500
members world-wide in about 130
congregations.
Here are some more:
The winds of change are reaching an
ever-increasing velocity and those
unwilling to recognize these changes
will surely be swept away. If we are
going to have faith and be guided by the
Holy Spirit in this New Age, we have to
be prepared for radical changes alarming
relevations. I wonder if they mean
`extra-Biblical'? And even
demands to reinterpret our own faith,
the prime task of those in Christian
ministry today is to help people evolve.
The cultural Christians have to evolve
along with the universe or perish.
If the Cosmic Christ is saying
anything to us today, it is "evolve
or perish".
They go on to say that every man is a
potential `christ'.
One more thing I want to mention.
This is their statement `it is
neither the Roman Catholic or
Protestant, but Catholic' And
when they use the phrase `but
Catholic' - it is spelt with a
capital `C'. Basically, they are
saying they are not Protestant, they are
not Roman Catholic, but C-a-t-h-o-l-i-c.
They are THE representatives of God on
earth. This is clearly an occultic, new
age group and James Dobson went out of
his way, or at least his organisation
did, and I am sure with his
knowledge,because he was going to be one
of the speakers, went out of his way to
invite representatives from this group
to meet with leading ministers of the
United States at Focus On The Family
campus.
Just one more item concerning
ecumenism. As you know, a few years ago
the Family Research Council was formed
and actually, it is indirectly - kind of
- associated and an arm of Focus On The
Family. Gary Bauer (sic) heads this up
and he and James Dobson of course
converse on the phone frequently. The
Family Research Council of course, came
into being in order to protect,
basically, the tax exempt status of
Focus On The Family.
Now I think we have all heard of the "Moonies"
haven't we? Well, guess who a recent
speaker at a Moonie convention in
Washington D.C. was? None other than
Gary Bauer (sic)!
Still another thing that I think all
discerning Christians and all pastors
need to be aware of - is that H.B.
London, the man who personally invited
Liberal Catholics to the Focus campus,
also is the man who is behind all of the
Focus Pastors' conferences being held
around the United States.I don't know
the exact number but there are probably
between 6 and 8 of these conferences or
more a year and now they are spreading
it and expanding it to Pastors' wives.
This, too, is breaking down the
doctrinal walls of separation between
denominations.
Promise Keepers is still another
thorn in the flesh to discerning
Christians. I think probably the most
dangerous thing about Promise Keepers is
that they are breaking down the walls of
separation between denominationsas a
matter of fact, between Catholics,
Protestants and anybody else that wants
to get involved. And I think their most
dangerous position has been laid out by
a man named Schaeffer (sic). Dale
Schaeffer (sic) is vice president of
Pastoral Ministries of Promise Keepers
and this is a quote:
"Patchwork Quilt of
Theology, Schaeffer (sic) says, t
his new paradigm is built on
relationship, not doctrine."
I was employed at Focus On The Family
when Bill McCartney's Promise Keepers
held its first meeting. There was very
aggressive recruiting in Focus On The
Family to get people who worked there -
the males, to go to that first
convention. Without the nod of Dr. James
Dobson, and Focus On The Family
endorsement, it is not likely that
Promise Keepers would be where they are
today. Everybody believed without
question, anything that Dobson says and
goes along with anything he endorses.
Dobson has personally interviewed
McCartney at least twice on his Focus On
The Family Programme, a major
endorsement, exposing him to thousands
of airings a week and in a special
message to our friends, by James Dobson,
November, 1995:
Item 1. James Dobson says this -
"We provide exposure and
assistance to other worthy endeavours
throughout the year -
think about it. Where did many
of you first hear about Promise
Keepers?
Then he goes on to list quite a
number of other organisations, but he
lists Promise Keepers first - more
eucmenism. And who is ultimately behind
it? James Clayton Dobson and Focus On
The Family!
If you think there is not a concerted
effort and an agenda, a planned agenda,
to unite all religions into one great
political bloc, basically, you are
wrong!
Next, I would like to turn my
attention to some of the Focus On The
Family publications for children.
For instance -
Breakaway magazine for teenage
boys,
Brio (sic) for teenage girls and of
course,
most of you are familiar with Club
House and
Club House Junior.
In 1993 the Breakaway Boys - the
staff of Breakaway magazine held a
contest and many young people - young
males around the country sent in
"Rap tapes" - it was a
"Rap" contest. I am told that
about 120 young people, sometimes a team
of one or a team of two entered this
contest and 40 winners were selected. I
think you need to take a real look at
the content in Focus Publications for
kids.
You are going to be hard pressed to
find anything that will encourage them
in the Christian walk, it is a
combination of worldliness and Bible. I
believe my Bible says something about
`Love not the world neither the things
that are in the world - if any man love
the world, the love of the Father is not
in him'.
I am going to play you a bit of a
tape, these are staff members of
Breakaway magazine, they wrote their own
Breakaway song and they introduced the
40 winners by singing their own
Breakaway song. You are going to be
shocked - Jesus Christ is referred to as
"The Big J.C." You
will heard word and then grunts and
groans. You will hear `word', `nurd',
`word' and other references that
are absolutely blasphemous. This tape
was offered for sale in 1993 to all who
wished to obtain a copy and many, many
thousands were sold. As far as I know it
was removed from the active sales list
in about 1994, December.
Well, here it is.Hear it for
yourself. This is just more Focus error.
Rick (?) Johnson, editor of
Breakaway Magazine along with Jerry
Price our designer, Michael Ross -
Mikie, Mikie - ah, how we love it.
O.K.! We are going to be Dee Jaying
this tape. To give you a little
flavour of how bad Rap can be, we are
talkin' bad man! We will do a little
Rap and we are going to `Q' it up
right now!
(Music starts playing) Voice
says - Hey Dudes - how do you like the
music I picked up for our Rap tape?
Wow, O.K. not bad! - Mikie, Mikie,
--------, the `J' man is in! O.K.
ready. You guys are ready? Get with it
- many voices in background. Get them
out of here! Yo! get it! Drop it! Take
it! Kick it, make it, break it!
"We are the Breakaway
boys and we are here to say, we can
Rap with the best - now's our day. A
look to the left, and to the right,
the one I follow is Jesus Christ - the
big J.C. He is our shield, our rock,
our sword, Yo! - give me a different
yo! on that one - Yo! Yo! - well done
buddy. He's talking about the -------
he's not bragging on our Lord - I see
it in the store -------- on your new
shoes, from Reebocks, there's many to
choose! (rest of song too fast to
understand to correctly type - some
disgusting lyrics re coughing up a
fur-ball and nurd, word, I'm talking
about the Big Daddy G here!
(meaning God ?? Despatch).
If you think that was bad there were
plenty more of these "rap"
songs on the same tape, only the rest of
them were performed by teenage boys. By
the way the tape number is CC801
Resource code 10802. James Dobson was
made aware of this tape and its contents
in November of 1992. I know because I
sent him a letter to his home to be sure
he got it! The response to a number of
things, which were included in that
letter came from his secretary who said
simply:
"Dr. Dobson asked me to
call you and tell you he had received
your letter.
He is concerned about the
content and he will be acting on
it."
He did nothing about the Rap tape.
End of first half of tape.
First sentence of beginning of 2nd
half of tape inaudible -
The powers that be are ordained of
God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the
power resisteth the ordinance of God and
they that resist shall received unto
themselves damnation or condemnation.
For rumours are not a terror to good
works, but to the evil.Wilt thou then
not be afraid of the power. Do that
which is good and thou shalt have praise
of the same for He, the ruler is the
minister of God to thee for good. But if
thou do that which is evil, be afraid
for he beareth not the sword in vain.
For he is the minister of God, a
revenger to execute wrath upon him that
doeth evil. Wherefore, ye must needs be
subject not only for wrath, but also for
conscience sake. For, for this cause,
pay ye tribute also for they are God's
ministers attending to this very thing.
Render therefore to all their dues,
tribute to whom tribute is due, custom
to whom custom, fear to whom fear,
honour to whom honour. (Romans 13:1-7).
This instruction is for all in
relationship to their government. God
used the apostle Paul to record this in
the book to the Romans and we surely
know that the Romans were cruel rulers.
American leadership today is not to
be compared to Romanism of 2,000 years
ago. The Bible is clear we are to obey,
not fight government unless government
forbids the Christian to obey Scriptural
instruction. The key there is `forbids'.
Even then it is an individual obedience
of God's Word to obey God rather than
men - NOT a corporate effort on man's
part to force everyone to obey God's
Word. As James Dobson and others are
leading American Christians to do today,
this is sin.
Allow me to read a statement by Dave
Hunt on political activism and the
Christian:
Quote
"As the first letter
quoted above said - more than 30 years
of civil protest and Christian
activism
(Focus On The Family, The
Christian Coalition and so forth),
have not stopped abortion. Instead of
the hoped-for moral awakening, morals
have declined. Crime, drug addiction,
pornography, divorce and so forth
increased, scarcely 10% of Americans
believe in all of the 10 commandments,
1/3 of all married Americans have had
an affair, and 1/5 of the children
have lost their virginity by age 13.
Would all of that effort that
has gone into political and social
action have done more good if instead,
it had been expanded upon reaching the
lost with the gospel, as Christ
commanded us. The question remains,
what are we to do? We must follow
Scripture, neither Jesus nor His
apostles, nor the Biblical early
church ever engaged in social or
political activism or even advocated
it. The great commission is not `go
into all the world to reform its
morals by forcing sinners to behave
like saints', but to preach the gospel
and convert sinners. And in the end,
the conversion of sinners will have a
far greater impact on society than all
of the lobbying, protest marches and
passionate appeals to morality that
consume the time and energy of
`concerned Christians'." End
of quote.
To those of you who are walking with
the Lord in the power of His Spirit, who
are into the Word and to whom God has
given discernment, I offer this
challenge. What you are about to hear is
going to be documented and James Dobson
has been a part of something called "The
Council for National Policy",
(which hereafter will be referred to as "The
C.N.P.") since at least the
mid-1980s. It was organised in 1981 by
Tim LaHaye. What they are trying to do
ultimately, is build a bloc of
interfaith - so called christians to
lobby for reformation and reformation is
not regeneration.
Millions of Christian dollars have
gone into it and more millions will go
into it unless the church wakes up. It
is entirely possible that it could lead
to serious persecution of true believers
today.
I am prepared to show you through
documentation that the ultimate purpose,
at least underneath the surface of Focus
On The Family today is political
activism. Reformation - not
regeneration!
Information on the C.N.P. is very
hard to come by, they are a very secret
organization, membership is not allowed
to discuss meetings, meeting content,
meeting speakers, or even admit that
there are meetings. I think the best way
to introduce you to the C.N.P. - and I
think you will see the great danger of
this organization and where it is taking
American Christians - many of them.
Here is an article that was found in
a magazine called "Covert
Action". These people contacted
the C.N.P. offices and I am going to be
doing a little bit reading here and I
think it will explain itself and as we
read along the way, perhaps you will
understand my concern about James
Dobson's leading Christians and using
his Focus On The Family Organization
into political activism.
Telephone C.N.P. offices and the
discreetly vague person who answers will
tell you that although the group is
indeed a tax exempt, non-profit, the
C.N.P. is a private organization. It has
long been our policy not to discuss our
speakers, the members who belong, or our
visitors. In this way we are able to
meet and discuss issues freely without
having reporters present.So I could not
give you any more information.
In fact the C.N.P. will not discuss
where and when it holds its meetings, or
even confirm or deny if it holds
meetings at all. One reason for the
secrecy according to the investigative
reporter Russ. Bellet (sic) is that
C.N.P. is devoted to networking the
foremost right wing activists and
funders in the United States.
The C.N.P. is an important and
influential institution within the
United States' ultra-conservative right.
It trains key political activists,
promotes discussions of right wing
strategies among leading operatives and
funders, shapes how issues are chosen
and framed and mentors young activists
on the way up the reactionary ladder.
In itself, it has little power, its
members are key players who are
networked by the C.N.P. I am going to
end quote there for a moment just to
make a comment.
Notice this last sentence - `in
itself it has little power and its
members are key players who are
networked by the C.N.P.' This means that
the C.N.P.is working through the
organizations that its membership
represent. James Dobson represents Focus
On The Family, and he is committed to
the agenda of the C.N.P. He is working
through Focus On The Family and its many
departments to further the C.N.P.
agenda.
Now before I go on, this list is from
1995 and 1996. This involves only
intimates of Focus On The Family or
people who are presently employed by
Focus On The Family who are Council for
National Policy members. For the most
part Focus On The Family has the largest
bloc in the C.N.P. membership.
Here they are:
Dr. James Dobson
Mr. Lee Egan (sic) - Member of
the Focus Board of Directors
Mr. Don Hodel (sic)- Member of
the Focus Board of Directors
Mr. E. Peb. Jackson (sic) -
Former Focus vice president who now
works in a different ministry.
K. Cole James (sic) - Member of
the Focus Board of Directors
Mr. Richard Mason until January
of 1996, the Focus C.O.O.
Mr. Tom Minnery (sic) - Focus
vice president of Public Policy.
Mrs. F. Prince - she is now a
member of governors of the Council for
National Policy
and she is a member of the Focus Board
of Directors.
Mr. Richard J. Simmons, vice
president of Focus On The Family,
Mr. Simmons resigned and left
Focus in January of 1997.
Ryan Dobson, son of James Dobson
is a member of the C.N.P. Youth Council.
He is also an employee of the Family
Research Council.
Mr. Gary Bauer (sic) - heads the
Family Research Council and he and Dr.
Dobson are often on the `phone together.
He is a member of the C.N.P.
Mr. Anthony Warlich (sic) - he a
member of the Focus board of directors
and until 1995 was a member of the C.N.P.
* It is interesting to note that on
the executive committee of the Council
for National Policy is Mr. Gary Bauer
(sic) and Don Hodel (sic) as mentioned
earlier. These individuals are active
parts of the C.N.P. and they are all
connected or associated with Focus On
The Family.
Now let us go back to the quotes from
`Covert Action' telling us a little
about what the C.N.P. is and what it
stands for.
Along with wealth and power the ideal
C.N.P. candidate appears to be an
ultra-conservative Christian evangelical
who is comfortable with racism, sexism,
homophobia, paranoid anti-communism and
who has a distaste for liberalism and
mass democracy.
The C.N.P. was founded in 1981 when
Tim LaHaye, a leader of Moral Majority
proposed the idea to wealthy Texan T.
Colin Davis (sic). Davis contacted
billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt and from
that point on it began recruiting
members.
In a mere 3 years they had 400
members. They concieve themselves as a
rightist alternative to the
establishment called "Council On
Foreign Relations" in New York
City. Bellet (sic) told Covert Action
that his continuing research reinforces
his view that C.N.P. was, and is,
heavily influenced by the John Birch
Society.At the Saturday evening
reception recently, the C.N.P. gave its
Winston Churchill Award. This award is
given to certain individuals whom the
C.N.P. considers their `kind of guy or
gal.'
The main reason for this award I
think, is wrapped up in a quote which
Winston Churchill made and which they
use in the presentation of the award.
Listen to the quote:
We move on in our report. Since the
S.N.P. maintains a very low visibility
it is likely that members lobbying at
the behest of C.N.P. or C.N.P.
Incorporated would use the names of
other groups with which they are
affiliated. Well, with whom are they
affiliated?
For one group, I can speak - Focus On
The Family. The origins of the C.N.P.
are not found in mainstream conservatism
or the traditional Republican Party, but
the nationalistic and reactionary
circles of the radical rout, including
the John Birch Society. The C.N.P.
frequently requests a slick up-date
repackaging of John Birch philosophy.
Five more board members of Western
Goes (sic) - essentially a John Birch
Society intelligence-gathering operation
and later used to funnel aid to the
Nicuaragan Contras. They have joined the
C.N.P. as well. By the way, Ollie North
who participated in that, is a C.N.P.
member.
The C.N.P.'s first Executive Director
Louisianna State Representative Woody
Jenkins told members -
"I predict that one day
before the end of this century the
Council will be so influential that,
is to say, powerful, that no President
regardless of party or philosophy will
be able to ignore us or our concerns
or shut us out of the highest levels
of government.
Council members who are willing to
discuss the C.N.P. at all, describe its
main function as a forum for bringing
activists and wealthy funders together
to plan projects of mutual interest.
Letus take a look at some of the
members:
Tom Ellis succeeded LaHaye
in 1982 as President of the C.N.P.
Ellis is a top political operative of Jesse
Helms and this is a statement that
Ellis made:
Now Ellis later reputed that
statement.
Another man - Richard De Vos,
president of Amway Corporation
also is a member of the C.N.P. Executive
Committee and Board of Governors at one
time or another, De Vos was C.N.P.'s
President from 1986-1988. He was an
early backer of behind the scenes
efforts in the mid 1970s to stimulate
the religious right to make the U.S. a
Christian Republic - a theocracy.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you hear me
- there will never be a theocracy other
than the Devil's theocracy during
Tribulation until Jesus Christ returns
and establishes His reign upon the earth
- never.
Another member - Richard Scholt
(sic) - owner of Lincoln Log Homes in
North Carolina - a former Ku Klux
Klan leader in Indiana. Scholt (sic)
is a financial supporter of High
Frontier - a Star Wars Group allied with
the tiny occult group headed by
Elizabeth Clare Prophet called "The
Church Universal and Triumphant".
Interesting? Huh?
By the way, the Council for National
Policy also gave an award to "The
Washington Times" - Reverend
Moon's Unification Network owns The
Washington Times. We go on.
I think this is the man that
frightens me the most, he is dangerous. R.J.
Rushdoony - ideological leader of
the Christian Reconstruction Movement,
advocates that Christian Fundamentalists
take dominion over the United States -
abolish democracy and institute the
death penalty for children who disobey
their parents. According to Christianity
today, Rushdoony also believes true to
the letter of Old Testament Law,
homosexuals, adulterers, blasphemers (I
assume blasphemers are those who
disagree with him), astrologists and
others will be executed.
He believes there is no need for the
U.S. Constitution and calls Democracy a
`heresy'. Rushdoony was a featured
speaker at the 1983 Free Congress
Foundation conference on Criminal
Justice Reform. F.C.F. conference
described Rushdoony as a prominent
Christian writer.
Another man, Ron Goodwin. Ron
was formerly second in command at Moral
Majority. He left Moral Majority and is
now an Executive for the Reverend Sun
Muyung Moons' Washington Times
Newspaper.
Still one more. A figure of special
note among unsavoury characters in the
C.N.P. is Robert K. Brown. Brown
is publisher of Soldier of Fortune
Mercinary Magazine. Soldier of Fortune
has regularly praised pro-Nazi
individuals and groups.
That concludes the information from
"Covert Action" on the C.N.P.
Next we will take a look at an
up-date from the Internet. This concerns
a meeting that was held in Virginia by
the C.N.P. recently. Among other things,
those who go will see very much in
evidence it says, "plain clothes
security guards" carefully watch
who comes and goes at the hotels where
the meetings are held.
At that particular time, about a year
and a half ago - about two years ago
now, two of the people on 6 of the C.N.P.
Committees were Dr. James Dobson of
Focus On The Family, and also Mr.
Don Hodel of the Board of Directors of
Focus On The Family. Each man held
key positions on two of the 6 of
C.N.P.'s standing committees.
I want to throw in one more thing.
James Dobson does sell himself well -
grandfatherly, a ready smile, the way he
uses his voice, he is good. But there is
another side to James Dobson. I would
like to read this quote from the
Internet report:
"Dr. James Dobson led a workshop
called "Abortion and the Republican
Party". He spoke about the attitude
of Haley Barber (sic). This past spring,
Dobson sent a letter to Barber, the head
of the Republican National Committee at
that time and he said:
"If the R.N.C. abandons
its clear, pro-life position then you
leave us and millions like us
no resource but to consider a
3rd party candidate for President in
1996".
This is James Dobson blackmailing the
president or the leader - chairman of
the Republican National Convention.
According to an informed source, during
a question and answer session with
Senator Bob Smith who appeared on behalf
of Senator Bill Graham, Dobson proceeded
to lecture the group about Graham's
waffling on family values. Moderator Ed.
Meese (sic) cautioned Dobson that this
was a question-and-answer segment not a
debate.
According to their source, Meese
finally said
"Jim, I have told you
before that this is not a debate, it
is a question-and-answer period,
so please sit down so that we
can have the next question."
I believe with all my heart that
James Dobson is a radical activist,
leading all of Christendom into activism
and in the next few minutes, I am going
to expose some of the leadership. This
is my opinion:
For at least a year, Focus On The
Family was sending $1,000 a month to an
organization called "The Centre
for Military Readiness". It
describes itself as an alliance of
civilians and military to defend sound
personal policies in the U.S. armed
forces. Interesting that the leadership
includes many C.N.P. members.
The director for the Centre for
Military Readiness is
C.N.P. member Elaine Donnelly,
some of the board of advisors are also
C.N.P. members, for instance,
Allan Carlson, president of the
Rockford Institute.
Lieutenant General Daniel O'Graham,
retired, director of High Frontiers.
Beverley LaHaye, president of
Concerned Women for America and
Phyllis Shafaley (sic) president
of the Evil Forum.
All these people are C.N.P. members
and are on the Board of Advisors of the
Centre for Military Readiness which
Focus On The Family has been sending
$1,000 per month to fund.
Still another C.N.P. connection.
James Dobson,
Bill Bright of Campus Crusades,
and
Don Wildman of the American
Family Association met and formed an
organization which was to become known
as
"The Alliance Defence
Fund". In turn they
appointed Allen E. Sears (sic) to head
up the Alliance Defence Fund
Organization and all of the above are
C.N.P. members.
You might want to confront Focus On
The Family as to how much funding they
have given to The Alliance Defence Fund.
Sources that I have have suggested,
actually have seen the cheque numbers
that $100,000 was given to the Alliance
Defence Fund in the form of two cheques
in January of 1996.
Let us get a little closer to home.
The actual ministry of Focus On The
Family and how they are using it to
further a political activist agenda.
Indirectly forming what I call shadow
lobby groups. Recently in September of
1996 they offered to American physicians
something called the Physicians Rapid
Response Network.
Let me read briefly from this
brochure. The Physicians Rapid Response
Network is a free fax service designed
to provide medical professional an
opportunity to impact the debate on
critical bio- ethical and public policy
issues. More and more the social issues
we face today have a strong medical
component. Here is what they offer, I am
going to read just one of them - and all
of the parts of it.
We will automatically alert you by a
fax to important medically- related
state and federal legislation. The
alerts will include background and facts
of the legislation and a specific call
to action.
I don't believe that people who are
educated and professional, especially
people who are truly led by the Spirit
of God need someone, somewhere telling
them what action they should take on any
issue. I am not in favour of corporate,
political activism. Certainly I am in
favour of any individual Christian
confronting issues the Lord leads them
to.
I think you also need to know that
there is an organization called
"The Patriots" and
they have a Magazine called simply "The
U.S.A. Patriot Magazine" and
while I can certainly sympathize with
many of their concerns, I cannot agree
with the way they go about trying to
accomplish their ends. They list in the
November 1994 issue of the Patriot
Magazine telephone and address book,
sources that can be contacted in their
behalf.
On this list there are no less than 4
C.N.P. members, but one of them is Dobson,
Dr. James, Focus On The Family,
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Just a little more on political
activism and Focus On The Family. On the
17th day of this month, February, 1997,
the speaker on Dobson's Focus On The
Family programme will be Charles Colson.
His subject - it says "Faith
in Action" and the subject
matter is "Do Religion and
Politics Mix?" Still more
activism and still more of the intent to
involve Christians in it using names
like Chuck Colson.
In May of this year, on the 1st
through to the 4th there will be an
Attorneys' Conference held at the Campus
in Colorado Springs of Focus On The
Family and guess who the main speaker
will be? I mean other than James Dobson?
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