What a waste of time. Just read your Bible and you’ll know.
Somehow Mystery Babylon comes to mind!
Marching ever more rapidly toward a one-world religion.
I would have thought that those few basic things would be known to the greenest of disciples yet here these leaders are saying it took years, YEARS!, to work them out.
Anyhow, great work fellas, you’ve produced a document. Get it bound in red leather and put it on the shelf.
Ping
'The first part provides a biblical basis for Christian mission, asserting that Christians should follow the "example and teaching of Jesus Christ and of the early church" in their witness and that "conversion is ultimately the work of the Holy Spirit."'
The second has problems. When Paul spoke to Agrippa I sure respect was given, but the today people seem to equate respect with not being nonconfrontational and sniveling.
The second section outlines 12 principles Christians are called to follow in witnessing of Christ in a manner consistent with the Gospel. These include: acting in God’s love; living with integrity, compassion and humility; rejecting any form of violence; and offering respect to all people.
I did read much of the last point. I saw where they were going and I didn't wan to ruin my day.
The "Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue" is charged with relations between the Church and non-Christian religions. Not for relations between different groups of Christians. That is the responsibility for the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
I have looked through the document on the WCC Website and see that it is dealing with missionary activity. That would fall under the aegis of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples or the Pontifical Mission Societies. And there is nothing mentioned on either of those two websites either.
Likewise, there is nothing discussed in any of the Vatican press offices, either the new portal, the Vatican Information Service, or Radio Vatican.
If there is a document signed, the Vatican would be crowing about it and I see silence. So this does not make sense to me at all.
Anyone who claims to speak for the Evangelical community is a charlatan.
It doesn’t work like that, Sparky.
Leaders from the World Evangelical Alliance, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on Inter-religious Dialogue were in Geneva on Monday to launch the document entitled, "Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct."
Does this reporter really think that the "World Evangelical Alliance" represents, in any meaningful sense, the world's evangelicals?
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I think it’s important not to just use our experience to understand this. In the US, the problem can be that people are too “nice” and wishy-washy. But in places like Africa and other Islam and pagan environments, this civilized approach to conversion reaffirms the distinction between the freedom of Christianity and the coercion inherent in conversion to some other religions, such as by the sword in Islam, or by means of fear and manipulation, as with cults and occult practices. The poor and ignorant around the world need to see clearly that real Christians don’t use hard-sell, manipulative tactics on them, or against each other.
Leftist, Leftist, and ???
I looked up the WEA...never herd of them, nor of the NAE (National Assoc of Evangelicals). Looked thru the latter’s newsletter, and it looks like they need to spend more time reading the Bible and less time worrying about ‘social justice’ - which somehow always seems to end up being politically liberal.
I looked up the WEA...never heard of them, nor of the NAE (National Assoc of Evangelicals). Looked thru the latter’s newsletter, and it looks like they need to spend more time reading the Bible and less time worrying about ‘social justice’ - which somehow always seems to end up being politically liberal.