January 14, 2002

Richard H. Homeres
Family Stations, Inc.
290 Hegenberger Road
Oakland, CA 94621

Dear Mr. Homeres,

This letter is in response to your inquiry of November 7, 2001, where you
stated your desire to air our messages under the new policy of not referring
to men by their Biblical titles nor what churches they represent.

"Recently, we have implemented a policy regarding announcements on the air,
stating that the name of organizations, or churches, or titles of the
speakers, cannot be included."

Because we have enjoyed a friendly and mutually supportive relationship with
Family Radio in the past, we wrote to you on November 12, 2001, for more
information before our session would make its decision. You passed our
letter on to the President of Family Radio, Harold Camping, from whom we
received a response dated November 20, 2001. His two page response was
accompanied by an eight page defense of his latest teaching and the
twenty-three page tract "Has the Era of the Church Age Come to an End?" Part
of the information we asked from you was never clearly answered by Mr.
Camping. Based on the two letters we received, we wrote to you again on Nov.
26, 2001, stating what appeared to us to be your new positions and asking
that either you or Mr. Camping acknowledge whether we were correct or not.
After waiting six weeks for a reply, we can only assume that your lack of
response to our letter means that our understanding is accurate concerning
your new positions.

Besides the above mentioned policy, Mr. Camping informed us that you will
also be editing our sermons to conform to his teaching. He wrote the
following,

"This means we will no longer identify Family Radio's teachings with Pastors
or churches. However, if a Pastor or church wishes to continue to assist with
the wonderful task of evangelization we welcome messages that are faithful to
God's Word. However, we must edit out references to the visible, corporate
church. We will not edit our references to the eternal, invisible church
because it will always continue. We are very thankful for the messages that
in the past we have received from the Free Reformed [sic] preachers. We truly
hope that some of these men can continue with the task of evangelizing the
world, even though they themselves will not be recognized as a Pastor, and
even though their contribution to Family Radio's ministry will not assist in
anyway to build up their congregations."

Although we have in the past enjoyed the godly music, evangelistic emphasis,
and edifying messages on Family Radio, we cannot agree with the current
policy which goes against your stated purpose to "help the local churches."
Daily, Mr. Camping is teaching that pastors, elders and deacons have no
authority from God and that God is commanding His people to leave the local
church to attend an assembly where there is no spiritual authority or
ordinances. In his letter to us he clearly rejoices that "already a few
churches have seen these truths and have changed from a church with elders
and deacons and a Pastor to become a fellowship with no elders, deacons or a
Pastor." The question we ask ourselves is, why does the station even want our
messages, if Family Radio is ashamed to acknowledge that we are Biblically
ordained pastors and represent Scriptural churches? It is clear to us that
this new policy of refusing to refer to our preachers as Pastors, refusing to
mention the church's name in connection with a message, and editing out of
our sermons that which disagrees with Mr. Camping, is an attempt to have us
teach the same thing as Mr. Camping. We can under no circumstances allow our
teaching to be confused with the latest erroneous teachings of Mr. Camping.

Let me briefly address three of the issues that Mr. Camping raises in his
teachings that are clearly not in accordance with Scripture. First, he holds
that the orthodox, Bible-believing church is dead and given over to Satan.
We believe that the orthodox, Bible-believing church is not and never will be
given over to Satan. "Giving over to Satan" is the language used by the
Apostle Paul to refer to excommunication. Because of unrepentant sin (I Cor.
5:1-5) or blasphemous heresy (I Tim. 1:19-20), Paul gave men over to Satan.
In so doing, Paul put these men outside of the church and into Satan's
domain. It is true that churches that have turned to idolatry or apostatized
from the truth have been given over to destruction, but that is a result of
their leaving Christ. God never gives a faithful church over to Satan. By
Mr. Camping teaching believers to leave the church, has not the result of his
doctrine been that he has "excommunicated" or driven believers from their
congregation to the very place where Satan's domain is? It is Mr. Camping
who is giving men over to Satan, not the Lord. It is blasphemous to think
that our good Shepherd would give His sheep over to the wolf, especially when
they are obeying His commands to be in the church (Heb. 10:25). The
Scripture teaches that our Lord will never give us over to the wolf or Satan
(John 10:11-16, 28-29).

Second, Mr. Camping teaches that because the church is dead, there is no
longer any authority in the church nor should we keep the ordinances of
Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Yet, the Scripture clearly commands Christ's
people to honor and submit to the Biblical authority which God has
established in the church (I Cor. 16:16,18; I Thess. 5:12-13; I Pet. 5:1-5; I
Tim. 5:17-21; Heb. 13:7,17), and there is never placed around these commands
a statement that the commands will one day cease. Therefore, by his teaching
that we are to leave the corporate church with its Biblical authority, Mr.
Camping is leading God's people into sin. This in turn will produce more sin
and injustice. For example, how can Matthew 18:15-20 be obeyed when there
are no elders or church? Paul does not allow believers to settle sinful
differences at the hands of unbelievers (I Cor. 6:1-8). If one negates
Matthew 18:15-20, then sin and injustice among God's people will not be
addressed Biblically. Similarly, no man has the authority to nullify
Christ's ordinances concerning Baptism (Matt. 28:18-20) and the Lord's Supper
(I Cor. 11:23-26). To teach that we can break these commandments is to place
oneself above the authority of Christ and the Scripture. Mr. Camping's
teaching is certainly contributing to and has become a part of the antinomian
spirit of our age.

In addition, if believers set up a fellowship with no authority (Pastor,
elders, or deacons) and with no ordinances (Baptism or the Lord's supper) as
Mr. Camping instructs, they are guilty of the sin of Jeroboam who made his
own religion to replace God's (I Kgs. 12:25-33). To replace a Biblical
church with a parachurch organization is clearly apostasy. Where is the
Biblical command to elect a president or vice president in place of a Pastor
or elder? This exhortation comes from Mr. Camping, not God.

Mr. Camping appeals to his figurative interpretation of the Olivet Discourse
as his reason for disobeying the commands listed above. But there is no
Biblical mandate to take the Olivet Discourse figuratively. When our Lord
said on an earlier occasion that the temple would be destroyed and rebuilt in
three days, the Holy Spirit records "but He spake of the temple of His body"
(Jn. 2:21). Yet, we have been given no divine interpretation to tell us that
the Olivet Discourse is to be understood in a figurative way. It is,
therefore, purely a man's interpretation of the passage in which he has
forced upon the passage his own peculiar perspective. This corrupting of the
passage results in a supposed command to leave the church, but it is in
reality the command of Mr. Camping himself.

On the other hand, historical accounts inform us that the Romans completely
destroyed the temple in AD 70. This destruction took place after they had
first desecrated the temple by offering forbidden animals, such as pigs, in
sacrifice. Then they completely dismantled the temple so that there was not
one stone left upon another and thus fulfilled our Lord's prophecy (Matt.
24:1-2). While some of the walls in the city itself were not totally
destroyed, such as the Western wall, this does not affect the fulfillment of
Matthew 24:1-2, because those walls were never a part of the temple
buildings. Finally, the Romans built a shrine to Jupiter on the very spot
where the temple had stood. When the Muslims later moved into Jerusalem, they
built the Dome of the Rock on the sight where the temple and shrine had been.
The temple area has been trodden under foot of the Gentiles ever since AD
70. It is also interesting to note that when the city was being surrounded
by the armies of the Romans, there were Christian believers who "fled to the
mountains" and by hiding in Pella were spared the horrible slaughter of the
Romans. This passage is a wonderful proof for the exact fulfillment of
divine prophecy and ought to give us encouragement that the rest of the
prophecy concerning Christ's return will also be fulfilled. But even if
Camping's spiritualization of the Olivet Discourse were allowed, we would
only be back to the need for believers to leave apostate churches.
Immediately before this prophetic discourse, our Lord stated that the
leadership in Jerusalem had clearly rejected Christ and was being left
desolate for her sin (Matt. 23:34-39). Our Lord, therefore, would only be
teaching that people were to leave apostate churches. There is no command in
the OT or NT to leave the orthodox, Bible-believing church and to forsake its
authority or ordinances.

It is interesting to note that all parachurch organizations, such as Family
Radio, have a man-made structure and authority. We believe that this is
proper and right. But for the sake of argument, it would be easier to show
that the authority over God's people in a parachurch organization is wrong,
than it would be to negate the clear teaching of Scripture concerning the
authority in the true church. Now that Mr. Camping has declared there is no
authority in the church, will he equally declare that there is no authority
in the running of his parachurch organization? We do not think so. Such a
decision would destroy a ministry used of God in the past. But while he will
not make such a pronouncement about his organization, he does not hesitate to
attack the corporate church which is the living body of Christ.

Third, Mr. Camping implies that unless we agree with all of his
interpretations, even on minor issues, we are guilty of making "high places"
or abominations that will bring the wrath of God upon the whole corporate
church of Christ. In contrast to his teaching, we find in the OT that the
high places were where pagan gods were worshipped and represented a complete
apostasy from Jehovah. The term "high place" was never reduced to a mere
doctrinal difference of opinion among God's people. It was never even a
misunderstanding of the Biblical teaching on divorce. The high place was
idolatry and an abhorrence causing the eternal destruction of the soul. II
Kings 23:13 states very clearly the nature of the high places in Jerusalem.

"And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand
of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for
Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination
of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did
the king defile."

Furthermore, the LORD never overlooked the sins of those kings who worshipped
at the high places. He punished them with different types of judgments
throughout the history of both Israel and Judah. But not all the kings in
Judah worshipped at the high places and at least two kings, Hezekiah (II
Kings 18:4) and Josiah (II Kings 23:13,19-20), tore down the high places.
These kings were blessed in their reign and, in Josiah's case, did not
receive the wrath prophesied for the past sins of other kings. Since the
days of the Apostles it has always been true that when a church turns to
other gods (i.e. "high places"), Christ has judged that particular church.
But the true church will not be judged for the apostasy of others, just as
Josiah was not judged for the apostasy of Manasseh (II Kings 22:15-20). In
other words, we believe there has never been, nor will there ever be, a
mysterious judgment from God falling on the true church of Christ.

We firmly believe that Mr. Camping, who was wrong in his teaching that Christ
would return for his church in 1994, is also wrong in his teaching that the
church is dead. Outside of the cults, he is the only one, in almost 2000
years of church history, who has taught that during the tribulation period we
need to leave orthodox, Bible-believing churches. And even he never taught
this until recently. Family Radio now reflects that it is following his
unbiblical views when he, as the President of Family Radio, is allowed to
make his pronouncements and all who disagree with his destructive errors are
silenced by editing their messages.

In short, because Family Radio is now articulating a policy the intent of
which is to destroy the local church, we acquiesce to your refusal to
broadcast our messages and request that you return our messages immediately.
Pastors John Greer and Stephen Hamilton are in agreement with our position
stated in this letter, and they also request that their messages, as well as
the messages by the Rev. James Beggs, not be aired but returned immediately.

We will make known to our members and supporters your new policy and why you
have removed us from Family Radio. We can only hope that the Lord will
hasten the day when many who are connected to Family Radio will no longer
have their hearts grieved by the unscriptural errors mentioned above.

Sincerely,

Mark Allison Pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA	John Greer Pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Ballemena, N. Ireland
Rhett Dodson Associate Pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA	Stephen Hamilton Pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Allentown, PA
William Pehlert Clerk of Session in the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA	Kevin Sargent Elder in the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA
John Mulholland Elder in the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA

cc:	Harold Camping David Morrell Richard Van Dyke Bill Thorton Matt Tuter Mike Zeimann Charlie Manute