So I was on the campus of a nearby university earlier today and low and behold who do I run into but Jed Smock!

Is anyone else familiar with this guy?

I'm not sure what was worse...his "preaching" or the homosexuals who showed up to protest and perform lewd acts in front of him.

I was embarrassed for both parties.

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Willie Grills
Trinity Presbyterian Church
OPC
Huntington, WV

This guy? No, never heard of him. Is he local in KY?

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

According to his , he's a member of the United Methodist Church. I was not expecting that!

-----Added 10/28/2009 at 09:39:29 EST-----

It was supposed to say, "According to his Wikipedia article..."

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Austin
EE student at Texas State University
Member of Church of the Cross (PCA) in San Marcos, TX
Ps. 8:3-4 "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"

HE belongs to "Open Hearts, Open Minds"?

Sounds kind of like my neighbor:



His church is a block away from my house.

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John Lanier
Elder in Training
Reformed Baptist Church
Topeka, KS

I just don't get it. What does a guy like him see in a denomination like them?

Yep, Norm that is him in the picture.

Hey actually openly supports Pelagius. He even has writings defending him. The sad thing is Jed Smock is actually a bit of a celebrity and was even on a number of talk shows in the 80s like Sally and Phil Donahue.

It was such a shameful display from both sides today. Marijuana smoking and homosexual activity happening by the protesters while Jed admonished them to use their own wills to stop sinning and that would save them. Crazy crazy stuff. My descriptions here cannot do it justice.
I wanted to speak up, but sadly I did not and for that I am ashamed.

He was on my campus when I was in grad school. Somewhere I still have his book "Who Will Rise Up?" He gave it to me when I answered a basic psychology question from his crowd of mockers. I was unsaved at the time, and he was the first person to call the life I was leading at the time completely sinful and inspired by the devil.

I read his book, taking away the message that I needed to do better than I was doing. But that was pretty much it for years, and by the time I came to faith I'd forgotten about how I needed to fix myself according to his book. It wasn't until years later that I looked him up. Yeah.... unashamed Pelagian.

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"I was found by those who did not seek me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for me." Romans 10:20b

Angela Asano
Edwardsville, IL
Member, Center Grove Presbyterian Church - PCA

"History never repeats itself, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain

So if you switched membership, you wouldn't even have to drive to church, you could just walk, right?

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Kevin, husband of a truly angelic woman, and father to ten.
Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

I was thinking IFB!

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I guess so. I heard he was a 5 pointer. Never met him though.

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Rich Koster
1689'er
Browns Mills NJ USA
Often Goofy Reformed Eccentric
Romans 7:14-25

Hyper-calvinist to my knowledge. Thinks "Calvinists" are going to Hell just like everyone else he hasn't deemed good enough or right enough to be a Christian.

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Andrew DeShazo
Husband of Kathryn
Father of Phillip-Giles B. DeShazo
Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"From out of the depth of unbroken Infinfity arose the Question, "Who am I?" And to that Question there is the answer, "I am God!" -Meher Baba, died 1969.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Christ, died 33 AD, ressurected three days later.