'Steve must turn to God'
2008-02-06 10:03
Johannesburg - Unless Steve Hofmeyr turns to God and "lays down his unbelief, blasphemy, murder, adultery and womanising", he is lost.
This was the message sent out by Ds Slabbert de Cornu, a dominee at the Reformed Church in Carletonville in a lengthy e-mail he sent to friends and various e-mail lists.
In his introduction he said that he didn't want to condemn Hofmeyr. He had been on the same road as Hofmeyr.
Only through the mercy of Jesus Christ he had been "saved like a piece of firewood from the fire of hell," he wrote.
Upon enquiry he said he wanted to administer God's mercy and grace to Hofmeyr and hoped Hofmeyr would turn himself to God and be saved.
Under the heading "Steve and the Bulls?" Le Cornu wrote that the Bible was the only measure with which to judge Hofmeyr's life and actions.
Abortion
He made five statements: "Hofmeyr is a blasphemer"; "Hofmeyr is a womaniser"; "Hofmeyr is an adulterer"; "he is an accomplice to murder"; and "he abuses God's holy name by alleging that it might be 'God's will' that he divorce his wife and live in sin with another woman and that our sins were God's will".
Le Cornu regarded Hofmeyr's following statement as blasphemous: "And is Mugabe, famine, child rapists, and the Mid-East the best the Almighty can do?"
He said Hofmeyr was an accomplice to murder because of the abortion Hofmeyr's mistress said she had undergone.
Le Cornu said Hofmeyr and everybody else reading the e-mail and "everybody who believed in the god 'Steve Hofmeyr!'" must know that if he lived in sin and continued to do so, he would be lost.
Le Cornu was also concerned about the influence Hofmeyr had on young supporters of the Blue Bulls and asked whether the rugby union shouldn't distance itself from his Blue Bull song.
Hofmeyr said: "I turned myself to God in Std 8 and won't allow a fool of God to tell me that I had not been converted.
"The fact that it should have left me sinless is theologically so indefensible, that I would have walked out of his church on Sunday."