Kolokotronis,
You should respond with your opinions after watching his open-air preaching in Peru. Washer goes knowing that the majority of Peruvians are Catholics who are not truly saved—the same way majority of Americans are Protestants who are not truly saved. LABELS DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING:
Ted Kennedy perpetuated abortion in this country, and he was “Catholic.” (He did every sacrament, went to church every Sunday.) Vladimir Putin was in the KGB and has dissenters jailed and killed under his orders. Putin is devout “Russian Orthodox.” Barack Obama says he’s Christian. Hillary Clinton says she’s Methodist. Britney Spears is Baptist!
The church you go to, wearing a cross on your neck, having pretty statues of angels in your house, and what water you were splashed with as a baby or the oil at confirmation say nothing of whether you truly have repented of your sin come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Whether you truly have new life in Jesus Christ, whether you know him and truly understand what He did on the Cross and whether you are living in light of that. Whether you understand what the BIBLE says about sin, about faith. Whether you are truly walking with the Lord.
Video of Paul Washer preaching to Catholics in a Peruvian park. (If you are interested)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYLUpHQaiE
Are you lecturing Kolo on the Faith? Kolo is perhaps the greatest source of information on Christianity that participates on FR. Your positions are ill informed and provincial. You express no understanding of the Faith, the Fathers, the Apostles, or Jesus the Christ. Grandstanding lectures do not communicate the Faith. They only elevate the speaker to the position that the televangelists currently occupy.
One of the hallmarks of heretics in ancient times was their overwhelming arrogance. I am not surprised therefore to hear that some American heretic preacher presumes to know the salvation status of other people. Of course he knows, right?
The Church will be here long after Washer and his heresies have gone the way of all flesh.
He speaks Spanish very well. I wonder how long it took for him to learn the language that well.
Also, I wonder if he speaks Romanian that well.
Uh, where were Paul Washer and the other johnny-come-lately-I-think-I’ll-build-on-somone-else’s-foundation Protestants when Perus was first Christianized more than 400 years ago?
Come to think of it, will Paul Washer be as long remembered or honored for his witness as this Peruvian Christian?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Porres
For some reason I can’t help but think that Paul Washer impact will basically evaporate before he’s even dead.