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Transcript of Phone Conversation between C.J., [Mahaney] Doris and Larry Tomczak on October 3, 1997 [pp. 10-11]
C.J.:
Doctrine is an unacceptable reason for leaving P.D.I. [now SGM].
Larry:
C.J., I‘m not in sync with any of the T.U.L.I.P., so whether you agree or not, doctrine is one of the major reasons I believe it is God‘s will to leave P.D.I. and it does need to be included in any statement put forth.
C.J.:
If you do that, then it will be necessary for us to give a more detailed explanation of your sins.
Larry:
Justin‘s name has been floated out there when there‘s statements like “revealing more details about my sin.” What are you getting at?
C.J.:
Justin‘s name isn‘t just “floated out there” – I‘m stating it!
Larry:
C.J. how can you do that after you encouraged Justin to confess everything; get it all out. Then when he did, you reassured him, “You have my word, it will never leave this room. Even our wives won‘t be told.” I repeatedly reassured him: “C.J. is a man of his word. You needn‘t worry.” Now you‘re talking of publically sharing the sins of his youth?!
C.J.:
My statement was made in the context of that evening. If I knew then what you were going to do, I would have re-evaluated what I communicated.
Doris:
C.J., are you aware that you are blackmailing Larry? You‘ll make no mention of Justin‘s sins, which he confessed and was forgiven of months ago, if Larry agrees with your statement, but you feel you have to warn the folks and go national with Justin‘s sins if Larry pushes the doctrinal button? C.J., you are blackmailing Larry to say what you want!
Shame on you, C.J.! As a man of God and a father, shame on you!
This will send shock waves throughout the teens in P.D.I. and make many pastor’s teens vow, “I‘ll never confess my secret sins to C.J. or any of the team, seeing that they‘ll go public with my sins if my dad doesn‘t toe the line.”
C.J., you will reap whatever judgment you make on Justin. You have a young son coming up. Another reason for my personally wanting to leave P.D.I. and never come back is this ungodly tactic of resorting to blackmail and intimidation of people!
C.J.:
I can‘t speak for the team, but I want them to witness this. We‘ll arrange a conference call next week with the team.
Doris:
I want Justin to be part of that call. It‘s his life that‘s at stake.‖
C.J.:
Fine.
C.J. never spoke with us [Larry and Doris] again. He was not a participant in the critical phone meetings that followed.
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
Paul I am confused about the sparkly stuff that is falling down on these enlightened ones. Is this fairy dust?
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T4H,
That would be my guess. I can’t think of anything else that would fall on enlightened ones.
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Outrageous behavior from those that claim they are Gods men!
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Paul this off the subject a little, but again the apple does not fall far from the tree. Could you give me a little more info. on Jon Zens? Is he still in the Calvinist movement or is he more in an emergent/Calvinist mind set? There seems to me that there are many little movements going on in a bigger movement- all reaching the same purpose? Jon Zens also seems to be making his rounds in the home church movement.
Need some info. Thanks
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T4H,
Ok, got you covered: go to batmail: pmd@inbox.com
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That was very disturbing to watch.
What’s with the beams of light streaming down behind them and all the little snowflakes? It looks like they are trying to make them look like they are speaking to us from heaven or something…all ethereal and everything. 🙂
Nice ending there by CJ. See—CJ’s not so bad (sarc) he’s special–he even got the last word on the promo video. Like a good friend once told me…like attracts like. I did not want to believe it…but I do now.
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Diane,
Good observation on CJ. Ya, I deal with this so much that stuff like the Smurf dust falling down upon them from heaven doesn’t even register. Geez. Where did the real John MacArthur go? I used to be a rabid consumer of his stuff years ago and can’t imagine that he would have been caught dead in that motif back then.
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I was just thinking of something else Paul. It is definitely a backdrop that is supposed to induce a certain response; to draw you in. It almost lulled me to relaxation…I mean, I could feel it if I wasn’t aware of this hype. The music, the floating thingys, lol, and the heavenly beams of light. It lets your guard down. Now, the question I have is- why would someone pick that kind of a backdrop (and, I might add, not a very “manly” one at that 🙂 ?
So new agey and “mystical”. Must be the new fad…guess rapping is out?
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Diane,
True blue Calvinism was very mystical. Author John Immel calls the Reformers “Mystic Despots” for good reason. Calvinism Light is merely returning to its mystic roots. I have written several articles that show a correlation between Gnosticism and New Calvinism. I used to diagram how New Calvinism supposedly worked from a general consensus of primary tenets, which by the way involved hundreds of hours of reading their nuanced crap. Over and over again when lunching with pastors/authors/friends/, and knowing very little of anything about Gnosticism myself, they would say the following after perusing my charts and asking a few questions:”Paul, that’s a lot like Gnosticism.” After about the tenth time I heard that, the light went on and I researched further. Just think, “Daily Double.”
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Diane
I was thinking of the same things you were about the fairy dust- strange indeed. Another thing to notice was the movie like ending of the promo- felt like I was about to watch the avengers or transformers. I guess that epic ending was to envoke a response of awe and wonder at the sheer excitement of seeing the “Christian” heros of modern evangelical movement. Next we will see them donned with
capes and claim abilities of being to able to see right through your depraved soul.
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I see that I need to get up to speed on all of this.
At any rate, imo CJ’s way of dealing with all that has transpired since it was made public last July and continuing on throughout this whole ordeal is just not cutting it as someone to promote and feature…for men to follow. (Thinking of JM’s blog article of last Monday -Who Do You Want To Follow?) I don’t think I need to follow anyone.
For goodness sakes, I hope men do NOT follow CJ’s examples.
In my book, a professing Christian pastor has to at least, well…act like a Christian.
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