Sunday night I watched Johnny preach on his church's FB page. His sermon title was, "Wash your hands!"
Johnny Pope/Christchurch Baptist Fellowship
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Sounds like Johnny. He's always been an extremist.
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I'm sorry, but an anti vaccination Ruckmanite calling someone extreme is PRICELESS.
If irony was currency it would be priceless.
I left the Hammond area over 40 years ago and have observed Pope from a very distant perch these past forty years. I believe, that while imperfect, he has been faithful to what he believed. Everyone has their opinions, but he always treated me respectfully back in the day. I think he has tried to be a good man and getting out of Hammond was likely the best thing he ever did.
I have been to his Church about three times I believe. Two of them, I heard Tim Lee preach and the third time was some other guest preacher so I have never actually heard Johnny Pope "Preech" but based upon what I have seen, he sure likes to hear himself talk!
Would I be wasting my time if I were to pull him up on YouTube?
Based upon my understanding, he has distanced himself quite a bit from the foolishness of Hyles but not completely disavowed FBCH/HAC. Based upon what I can gather, his education level never progressed beyond his BS degree from HAC and I am guessing his doctorate is an honorary one from HAC?
Would I be wasting my time if I were to pull him up on YouTube?
Based upon my understanding, he has distanced himself quite a bit from the foolishness of Hyles but not completely disavowed FBCH/HAC. Based upon what I can gather, his education level never progressed beyond his BS degree from HAC and I am guessing his doctorate is an honorary one from HAC?
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a baptist preacher named POPE ??....I have been to his Church about three times I believe. Two of them, I heard Tim Lee preach and the third time was some other guest preacher so I have never actually heard Johnny Pope "Preech" but based upon what I have seen, he sure likes to hear himself talk!
Would I be wasting my time if I were to pull him up on YouTube?
Based upon my understanding, he has distanced himself quite a bit from the foolishness of Hyles but not completely disavowed FBCH/HAC. Based upon what I can gather, his education level never progressed beyond his BS degree from HAC and I am guessing his doctorate is an honorary one from HAC?
.. . i thought baptists had a ..<ahem>.. cardinal rule against things like that... .. kind of a heretical mis-appropriation - avoid the appearance of evil thing..... could even stir up a distasteful image....
. ..... say it isn;t so.... 
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Interesting story, Back in the 1980s, John Paul II was pope and we would often refer to him as "Pope Johnny!"a baptist preacher named POPE ??....
i thought baptists had a ..<ahem>.. cardinal rule against things like that... .. kind of a heretical mis-appropriation - avoid the appearance of evil thing..... could even stir up a distasteful image....
Someone mentioned to me this Pastor from Houston I should check out next time I was in town. He told me his name was "Dr. Johnny Pope!"
I thought "you're kidding, right?" Nope, he was serious. Said he was really some sort of "hot shot preecher!"
I checked out a few clips on YouTube and I am not at all impressed.
Now that I have pulled him up on YouTube, I have to say that I am not at all impressed. Little to no substance in his preaching and I see that he was a keynote speaker at the Pastor's school in 2011 and was sucking up to Jack Schaap and all of the other "power players" in the FBCH/HAC universe, so... yeah, he is "one of them" and I want nothing to do with his kind!
I stated before, back in 1980-81 -- a LIFETIME AGO --I liked him. He was gifted and had a charisma about him that was rare for HAC students at the time. I believe he came to HAC as a student from Florida in the first year the school opened in 1972. He developed a following as a young evangelist while there and had a great number of bookings. He married a girl from Hammond and (I could be wrong about this) I think that's what kept them in Hammond until about 1981.
Eventually he was given a job at the college teaching. I know he had homiletics and probably a couple of other classes. I say again, in my rare interactions with him, he treated me respectfully. He and I left about the same time --1981. I have literally had no contact with him in these 43 years, but I think the description of "distancing himself" from FBC is accurate. I do not believe he has "turned his back" on it. Perhaps that's just semantics. I have not heard him preach in 43 years, but he has pastored the same congregation in Houston for 43 years and kept his life and ministry scandal free. I give him high marks for that. I believe for many years he was a "fan favorite" at the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, which is basically a yearly preaching convention controlled by mostly independent Baptists.
Eventually he was given a job at the college teaching. I know he had homiletics and probably a couple of other classes. I say again, in my rare interactions with him, he treated me respectfully. He and I left about the same time --1981. I have literally had no contact with him in these 43 years, but I think the description of "distancing himself" from FBC is accurate. I do not believe he has "turned his back" on it. Perhaps that's just semantics. I have not heard him preach in 43 years, but he has pastored the same congregation in Houston for 43 years and kept his life and ministry scandal free. I give him high marks for that. I believe for many years he was a "fan favorite" at the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, which is basically a yearly preaching convention controlled by mostly independent Baptists.
I'm sure he is a nice and likable guy. From my brief interactions with him, I would concur. He is just not the substantive bible preacher and teacher I would have hoped him to be. He is still a part of the "machine" albeit a "kinder, gentler, and more distant" part but a part nonetheless.
I used to live fairly close to where the Church is now (in the Champion Forest subdivision of Houston) and they were way off my radar.
I knew a Baptist preacher named Fag.a baptist preacher named POPE ??....
Or one named Jack Daniels...
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we knew an old guy many years ago named jose' cuervo.... ... unfortunately... he was a drunk.... and homeless.... ... even more unfortunately - since i know he got teased about his name.. he couldn;t even afford tequilla... ....stayed sauced on cheap smirnoff vodka like most of the other homeless alcoholics...... ..... a person should at least be able to enjoy the thing they get teased about.... well - maybe not all the time... . certianly not the preacher named fag....
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I kid you not: We are in Challis ID right now and there is a pastor here whose name is Sinz
Challis, ID Local Bible Believing Church: Pastor Biography l MVBC
If you are looking for an independent local church in Challis, ID that preaches the Bible, come to Mountain Valley Baptist Church.
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Yeah, they're KJVO.