Christian and Missionary Alliance Sues Local Church for Property and Bank Account

NEWS RELEASE
DATE: MAY 2, 2011
LOCATION: PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A.
CONTACT: PASTOR JOE SMAHA email: [email protected]
SUBJECT: CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE SUES
LOCAL CHURCH TO SEIZE ITS $1.2 MILLION PROPERTY AND BANK
ACCOUNT BY FORCE

In still one more act of piracy by the Christian & Missionary Alliance, Bruce Terpstra, District Superintendent of the Metropolitan District of the C&MA, has filed a major lawsuit against Community Church of Paramus (CCP) on November 19, 2010 in the Superior Court of Bergen County, New Jersey, Case # C-390-10. This Draconian act follows the same pattern and template of what the C&MA did to the Chinese Alliance church in Colorado Springs, the Vietnamese Boat People Church in Long Beach, California, and Reedsville Church in Pennsylvania, rendering members as trespassers on their own property. And just like they did to the Gospel Community Church in Glen Cove, NY 1995 [C&MA sued and lost this case in a jury trial in which attorney Daniel Buttafuoco defended the local church], Chinese Alliance Church, C&MA leaders declared the Community Church of Paramus meetings invalid. As in the case of the Chinese Alliance Church, the CCP mortgage was paid for by the members of this local church. The C&MA leaders trashed and held in complete contempt the local church’s constitution and bylaws, abused their spiritual authority, assassinated the character of its members, and threatened its pastor, Joseph Smaha, by yanking his credentials and declaring him guilty even BEFORE a fair ecclesiastical trial has taken place. Twelve years ago, Bruce Terpstra had falsely accused members of New Life C&MA affiliated church of intending to sue this church. He refused to repent when confronted for bearing false witness to these members or the congregation. A letter was written to Pastor Robert Tilli at Cornerstone C&MA Church, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, when Bruce Terpstra was Senior Pastor there, informing him that the members had no intention of suing the church. But Terpstra still refused to repent. So it is ironic that now it is Terpstra who has really sued a church that had been in the C&MA. It is further ironic that Pastor Bob Tilli (now Senior Pastor at Cornerstone C&MA Church in New Jersey) gave a sermon (“Loose Lips Sink Ships”) which applies directly to Bruce Terpstra’s destabilizing a church in his own district with loose lips.
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RESPONSE TO ASSEMBLIES OF GOD LEADERS

RICK KNOTH & ROGER COTTON’S CHARGES AGAINST KAREN PANSLER

March 5, 2011

James Sundquist

Dear Rick Knoth and Roger Cotton,

I am in receipt of your letters to Karen Pansler regarding her published article entitled: http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Bewitched%21.htm

Here is my response:

JUDGING INTENT
You have both accused Karen Pansler, but have failed to supply proof that she has borne false witness against either Alton Garrison or Rick Warren. I remind you that Scripture clearly states that bearing false witness against a brother (sister) is an abomination to the Lord. As to your charges that Karen Pansler is judging the “intent” of Alton Garrison’s heart, even if his intent were noble, false teaching must still be exposed. Garrison’s intent is revealed in his own writing. Why don’t you lay those charges at the Apostle Paul’s feet when he cursed the Judaizers in Galatians? Karen Pansler was tame in her article description of Garrison and Warren’s teachings compared to Jesus Christ’s description of Pharisees calling them a brood of vipers. Tame in comparison to Paul’s description of the teachings of Hymenaus in calling it gangrene. Tame in comparison to Peter and Jude’s description false teachers and false brethren: “accursed brood”, “twice dead”, “wild waves foaming up their shame”, “wandering stars”…or whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.”
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