I write this article as a pastor and as a former Mason. I served as head of Welcome Lodge in Amsterdam, New York in 1980, and as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York from 1983. Then a Christian brother's witness caused me to flee and to study the roots of Freemasonry. Pastors need to consider the relationship of their church, their ministry and their flock relative to Freemasonry.
Masons are in the pulpits, in other positions of leadership in the church and in the pews.
In every case they are either grossly deceived as I was for eleven years, or they are not truly Christians. Charles G. Finney, the greatest of the 19th Century evangelists, left Freemasonry when he acknowledged Christ as Savior and Lord of his life. He wrote a book on the subject of Freemasonry. It has been reissued by Crown Publication, Burlington, Ontario, Canada under the title, The Antichrist of the Masonic Society. Hence God did not require the church to bear any testimony on the subject as long as Masonry was secret.