RICHARD TAYLOR - THE FALSE TEACHING SURROUNDING

THE WELSH OUTPOURING AT CWMBRAN

This article is a follow up to my previous article about Richard Taylor and the so called Welsh
Outpouring in Cwmbran. I previously pointed out the ecumenical agenda of Churches Together of
which Victory Church is a part, and what I consider to be certain cultish aspects of Taylor's
leadership.
This particular paper is a critique of Richard Taylor's sermon on the 29th of May from Acts 10/1-28
on day 26 of the Outpouring. Taylor uses the questionable New Living Translation which is a poor
paraphrase rather than an accurate translation of the Bible. Acts 10 concerns the commencement of
the in-grafting of Gentiles into the early church. Cornelius, a Gentile centurion who is described as
devout and God fearing and the Apostle Peter are the main characters of Acts 10. God-fearers is a
term used for Gentiles who were sympathetic towards Judaism.

The whole thrust of Taylor's sermon is predicated on a lie;

it is actually a distortion of Acts 10/28 (also 11/9). The
lost, the hurting, the broken unbelievers in society should
not be viewed as, or spoken of as being unclean because
Jesus gave his life for those people. This erroneous
opinion is pure heresy and presumption. Taylor: Dont you
dare call unclean what God calls clean. The fallacy of
emotive language lies in the abuse of the power of words
to evoke a response, but this is deceptive and has nothing
to do with truth or love. By biblical definition, unbelievers
are unclean before a Holy God because they have not been cleansed from their sins by the blood of
Jesus (1 John 1/7; Hebrews 9/14 etc). To say that sinners are "clean" prior to repentance is not the
Gospel of Jesus Christ:
God has loosed what he bound in the Law of Moses in regard to distinctions between Jew and
Gentile. These distinctions have been removed by God, so that after Gentiles believe the gospel their
hearts are cleansed by faith and they no longer remain unclean (Acts 15/9). Peter's prejudice against
the Gentiles as being excluded from receiving the gospel is shattered, so that now amongst
believers: there is neither Jew or Greek (Gentile) for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3/28)
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.(1 Corinthians 6/9-11)
Taylor is adamant that Christians should not say that certain people in society are immoral or
declare what is moral and what is immoral - we should love people the way that Jesus loves people.
This is another instance which demonstrates the imbalance of Taylor's theology. Jesus Christ is the
Judge and Christians are not to judge people in a condemning way. However, to avoid any kind of
warning about immorality is not biblical. If Christians do not define sin specifically and warn
unbelievers about their lifestyles then there will be no conviction of sin. It is a question of how this is

done rather than simply avoiding the question of sin in people's lives. The kind of love which Taylor
promotes is unbiblical. If unbelievers are not convicted of sin then they will not be truly saved.
Conversely,Taylor condones good works of unbelievers and suggests that God is pleased with works
of the flesh. Taylor: You are a generous person...you are a nice person.....God sees that. Condoning
so called good works, but refusing to condemn sin is both perverse and dangerous. The Bible says
that all are wicked prior to being saved we are the enemies of God whether we think we are nice
people or not, God does not make this distinction.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. the flesh profiteth nothing -KJV (John 6/63)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17/9)
..without faith it is impossible to please him (God) (Hebrews 11/6)
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. (Isaiah 64/6).
There is no difference all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3/23)
Righteousness is through faith in Christ alone (Philippians 3/1-6).
Everything that does not come from faith is sin. (Romans 14/23)
Taylor says that Peter had a religious spirit prior to his vision of the unclean animals. No Peter did
not have an evil spirit, he had the Holy Spirit. Peter's problem was ignorance and blindness about
God's wider purposes for the whole world, he did not realise that the gospel was to go out to the
Gentiles as well as the Jews, this is understandable given his Jewish mindset. Peter needed, received
and accepted a revelation from the Lord about this. Christians do not have Peter's excuse of
ignorance when they are exclusive and unloving towards people they consider to be outside the
sphere of God's grace however.

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