WHERE IS JESUS?
Keith Fornier, who is Dean of Evangelization at the Catholic University of Steubenville, Ohio provides this report about his visit to EWTN. "Last year I spent a week at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Birmingham, Alabama, home of Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network. Early one morning, a voice over the loudspeaker announced, 'Mother asks everyone to leave the chapel immediately.' Outside, Mother Angelica explained that a possible gas leak had been discovered in the building. As Mother talked, she kept looking toward the chapel, finally inquiring, 'Where is Jesus? Where is Jesus?' Soon two sisters emerged from the chapel smiling, one carrying the Blessed Sacrament. 'We've got him, Mother,' she cried. Don't worry.'" (From Keith Fournier, New Evangelization 2000, Issue 8, page 7. Copied from Mike Gendron's Proclaiming the Truth, November/December 2004.) For a bit of insight into the testimony of Keith Fournier, see the following article.
CHRISTIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE REVIEWS KEITH FOURNIER'S BOOK, EVANGELICAL CATHOLICS.
Remarks by Bill Jackson
If a Christian is confused by reading the title of Keith Fournier's book, Evangelical Catholics, he will be more confused if he carefully reads the Christian Research Journal's review of it (Summer, 1991, pp 35ff).
In the second paragraph, the reviewer speaks of "brotherhood toward Keith Fournier [because of] his profound conversion to Christ, his love for Scripture and the God who inspired it, and his genuine concern for the peace, purity, and unity of the body of Christ." He later cites Keith's qualifications that define him as a Catholic. Keith equates the Roman Catholic Church with the apostolic church of Acts. He accepts the Bible as "the Book of the church" (which is the basis for interpretation of the Bible by the church's Magisterium). Keith believes that "Jesus literally meant what He said about the consecrated bread and wine," which indicates belief in transubstantiation. He admits, "I am a sacramentalist" and feels "the Church must be hierarchical." ALL OF THESE ARE UNBIBLICAL.
Keith speaks of a willingness to work together to bring the saving gospel to a lost world (page 16, Evangelical Catholics). BEFORE WE WORK TOGETHER TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD,WE MUST DECIDE WHAT THE GOSPEL IS. Is it baptismal regeneration plus sacraments plus Eucharist plus extreme unction plus purgatory? Or is it Ephesians 2:8,9 ? This book review is vintage C.R.I. It had enough agreement with biblical theology to pass the litmus test of many Christians, but sufficient uncertainty about the real position of Roman Catholicism to remain consistent with the basic waffling of Hank Hanegraaf, the "Bible Answer Man."