Moments after sending out my last email, entitled – ‘A VERY PUBLIC REBUKE!’ – I received the following Facebook photograph.
Rev Ron Johnstone cannot argue, as he has in the past, that he was not sharing the platform with a ‘disobedient evangelical minister’. One who defies God’s Word and remains within the ecumenical apostasy. On this occasion it was Methodist minister, Rev Maurice Laverty.
I need not ask if he obeyed the requirement of the ordination oath the swore to uphold.
I will, nevertheless, remind him of it with an important emphasis.
Will you maintain with all the strength God shall give you the position on Biblical separation from apostasy as taken by the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in 1951 at the time of its secession from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland?
As God helps you will you expose and resist the continued apostasy from Christ manifested within Irish Presbyterianism, METHODISM, Episcopalianism and other visible church bodies; exhorting God’s people to obey the teaching and commandment of 1 Timothy 6: 3-5?’
Thus the slide accelerates and those engaged in it are emboldened by the failure to uphold the distinctives of the Free Presbyterian Church by its Presbytery.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
23rd June 2026