OPERATION RESTORE JUSTICE

OPERATION RESTORE JUSTICE 

Tulsa, Oklahoma March 27-30, 2003

Operation Rescue and Operation Save America are coming to Tulsa March 27- 30, 2003 to confront Rhema and admonish her to repent over the direct violation of Jesus' commands. We will encourage her to take a principled stand for Life!

•   Daily street proclamations at ORU, Rhema College, and the abortion mill.
•   Evening rallies (location TBA)
•   Sunday morning, public proclamation at the gates of Rhema Church

Contact number once in Tulsa will be 214-476-7464.

If you are needing hotel information, please call the national office at the number listed below.

For more information call the National Office at 972-240-9370.

VISION STATEMENT

"Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."

1 Corinthians 11:1

In a post modern era, where society has declared war on God's Holy Law, a Standard-Bearer has been raised up to cry out in the wilderness of religious, social, and national chaos. This Standard-Bearer not only sees and teaches, but also preaches and acts against the vile injustices taking place in a land that has departed from Almighty God. It cries aloud in the streets of America's cities the same loving message of John The Baptist-repent! This Standard-Bearer, of course, is the Church of Jesus Christ. She has a Word for us through the lips of the Apostle Paul, "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."

Mark Holick, Pastor of Spirit One Church in Wichita KS, was doing just that as he allowed the theology he had learned at Rhema College to become biography on the streets in Wichita. Pastor Mark had been bringing the Gospel of Christ and leading his church to the very gates of hell - George Tiller's abortion mill in Wichita. Mr. Tiller, an infamous murderer of late term children, claims to be a Christian. After killing the child, Mr. Tiller has a "pastor" who will baptize the child (upon the parents request), and then incinerate him in his "on premises" furnace.

Pastor Mark and his church have led many to Christ on this missionary endeavor and literally hundreds of children have been saved from certain death because Spirit One Church was there, at the gates of hell, giving a voice to the voiceless.

Unfortunately for Pastor Mark, his ordination was revoked this past summer by, the Tulsa, Oklahoma based, Rhema Ministerial Association International (RMAI). Rhema's attorney, Tom Winters said that he advised RMAI to sever the relationship with Pastor Mark because he may be sued for his Gospel activities outside Mr. Tiller's abortion mill. This could result in RMAI being sued.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to." Matt 23:13

Rhema's doctrine of salvation is orthodox, not heretical. The problem is that Rhema itself will not enter into the battle for the lives of unborn children and is barring others from doing so. In a letter to Pastor Mark, RMAI said, "Although Rhema shares your moral and religious convictions against abortion, Rhema does not agree that the Church should participate in or endorse direct abortion protest activities." This is a dangerous precedent and must be opposed. By their actions in forbidding those under them to preach at the abortion mills, they are in direct disobedience to the Great Commission commanded by Jesus Himself.

NOTE: For the November 26 news article that appeared in Charisma News on the injustice at Rhema in Tulsa, see "Rhema Pastor Expelled for Pro-Life Activism" here on OR/OSA. "They [RMAI leaders] informed me that my wife, any of our church leaders, and myself could not for any reason go to any abortion clinic ever, not even to pray," Holick, 41, said in a letter to Barry Ross, pastor of 100-member Word of Life Christian Church in Cologne, N.J., who has taken up his plight. "They never told me specifically why...it was wrong for me if I chose to do so," continued Holick, who was dismissed by Rhema without a hearing. "I expressed to them that I have done nothing immoral, nothing unrighteous, nothing unbiblical, nothing unscriptural, nothing illegal, nothing sinful, but that if they felt that I had and pointed it out that I would gladly repent...I have made numerous requests to them for a meeting, to which they would not grant."