Pastor Jack Hayford Has Passed Away
Pastor Jack Hayford, the founder of The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and prominent author and hymn-writer passed away yesterday at the age of 88.
Along with being the chancellor of the school he founded, The King’s University in Southlake, Texas, he also served a term as the president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. He wrote more than 600 hymns, including “Majesty” in 1978. When he took over the pastorate of Church on the Way, it had less than 20 people, and he eventually grew it to over 10,000 at its height.
Keep his family in your prayers.
Editor’s Note. Despite his ministry success, he was plagued by aberrant theology and associations. Given to charismatic dreams and visions, he was an ardent supporter of Rick Warren and Purpose Drivinism and repeatedly promoted and partnered with money-grubbing false teacher Robert Morris (who teaches if you don’t give 10% of your gross income, God will curse your money)
Throughout his life his discernment and theological prowess was crushingly wrong; he claimed direct revelation from God told him to partner with Roman Catholics for ecumenical purposes, spoken several times at heretic Robert Schuller’s men’s conferences at the Crystal Cathedral, and would repeatedly laud mystical encounters and charismatic vices, such as speaking in tongues and “holy dancing.”
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Can we stop using the in-vogue word of “he passed.” He died. Period.
I don’t recall who but someone decades ago referred to him as the ‘Gold Standard’ of biblical Christianity.
That was before he said God told him in a car while Jack was driving to stop preaching against Catholics—they’re out brother and sister in Christ.
Well, Jack knows now that wasn’t God💡