False Unity is man-centered. If you go back through the long history of the Church, you will find that it has often counted most, and has been most used by God, when there have been just a handful of people who were agreed in spirit and in doctrine. God took hold of them and used […]
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Unity or Uniformity
“The promotion of unity at the expense of truth is satanic; it is demonic; it is not true unity. It is not the unity of the Holy Spirit for He is the Spirit of Truth. The Scriptural command which we have in Ephesians to promote the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace […]
Ecumenical Jihad – John MacArthur
According to some prominent evangelical leaders, we’ve been fighting the wrong war. Protestants, Catholics, and other religious people should quit bickering over issues of heaven and hell and unite in the culture war. Wait a minute…what’s wrong with this picture? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8CrQQLXtc Sermon excerpt: A woman once wrote to me, she said she thought Christianity was […]
Vatican: Shared Ecumenical Catechism
Cardinal asks dialogue partners if an ecumenical catechism might work By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches. “We […]
Methodist Church: Return to Church of England
Anglican Covenant Methodist President and Vice-President in addressing the General Synod today affirmed commitment to a covenant relationship with the Church of England. “We are prepared to be changed as a Church if that will serve the needs of the Kingdom.” The President and the Vice-President of the Methodist Conference addressed the Church of England’s […]
Spurgeon on Religious Pluralism
A thousand lying religions may sleep peaceably in one bed, but wherever the Christian religion goes as the truth, it is like fire brand, and it abideth nothing that is not more substantial than the wood, the hay, and the stubble of carnal error. C.H. Spurgeon Read the book of God for yourself. “But some […]
What Is Pragmatism & Why Is It Bad?
In a column published some years ago in a popular Christian magazine, a well-known preacher was venting his own loathing for long sermons. January 1 was coming, so he resolved to do better in the coming year. “That means wasting less time listening to long sermons and spending much more time preparing short ones,” he […]
Pragmatism is Modernism Recycled
Is Pragmatism Really a Serious Threat? I am convinced that pragmatism poses precisely the same subtle threat to the church in our age that modernism represented nearly a century ago. Modernism was a movement that embraced higher criticism and liberal theology while denying nearly all the supernatural aspects of Christianity. But modernism did not first […]
Religious Relativism
By Paul Proctor May 23, 2004 NewsWithViews.com How many of you have heard that a church is built on relationships? According to a Pastors.com article by Rick Warren; after polling a group of church members, a friend of his told him he discovered that 93% of the people joined because of the pastor but that […]
A Clarion Call to the Modern Church
More than a decade ago, John MacArthur called modern churches to return to sound doctrine — we need to hear that call again. Christians historically have understood that their calling is to be in the world but not of the world. As Os Guinness pointed out in a perceptive series of articles on the church-growth […]