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urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:39pm
Pastor Glass went on to minister at Zion Baptist Church, the church he founded in 1965. The church is Calvinistic, Baptist and Separatist. The church met first at Edrom St, Shettleston followed by a spell at the Woodside Halls and then onto the present premises in Polmadie, Glasgow. He was the editor of the magazine, the Scottish Protestant View, an Evangelical Protestant newspaper started by the Pastor in 1969. * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:39pm
Over the next number of years he was to become well known for his protests against Ecumenism. These protests took him all over the world to Rome, Sweden, Switzerland, Kenya, Vancouver, among other countries, and also at a local level throughout the UK. This culminated in a series of protests against the Papal visit to Britain in 1982, the first time a reigning Pope had set foot on this Protestant Island. Alongside this, the Pastor was debating at many Scottish and English universities, including * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:39pm
Durham and Cambridge on a number of issues against many distinguished opponents. * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:42pm
The church is Calvinistic, Baptist and Separatist.... I don't even know what that means, but I grew up in the days of Pastor Jack. he knew how to protest, no threat of violence, just a loud reminder that his God was watching. I admired his will, his committment to travel near and far to shout at folk. * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:50pm
He has campaigned against blasphemy on many occasions. Where ever his Lord was vilified, he protested. This included films (The Last Temptation of Christ), plays ( Corpus Christi ), musicians (Marilyn Manson) and comedians (notably Billy Connollys crucifixion skit). His last protest was exposing Connollys blasphemy. * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:54pm
In January 2003, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He publicly proclaimed that this was a personal attack by the devil himself. Throughout his intense treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he continued to preach twice weekly, protesting and taking part in hours of filming with the BBC (they had requested to document his life). The documentary The Devil and Jack Glass was screened in January 2004. His last public statement was to say that through * +

urvoice1 14.09.12 - 09:54pm
the power of prayer he had beaten the cancer the devil had given him. He died on 24 February that year. He is buried in Killearn. * +

mandain 14.09.12 - 10:00pm
Ah the last temptation of Christ, I still haven't seen it but I remember the controversy on the news at the time * +

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