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Due to an ever increasing syncretism it’s now become more and more difficult to cover the various strains of unbiblical teaching as they swiftly slither their way into the Christian community, and which, are quickly blending together in ways we’d previously not even have imagined.

A glaring example is found in a Christian Post report today called First Global Code of Conduct on Evangelism to Go Online. CP contributor Anugrah Kumar, whom I mentioned the other day in The Wild Goose Of The Emerging Church Is Not The Holy Spirit, tells us that:

The first-ever dos and don’ts for evangelism endorsed by evangelicals, mainline Protestants and Catholics will now be available online after the World Evangelical Alliance and its partners launch the document in Switzerland Tuesday. (Online source)

Um, a set of guidelines for evangelism accepted by evangelicals, progressive/liberal mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics? Here we go mentally off-roading into the swamp of Humpty Dumpty Language:

The Rev. Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of WEA, will be among the world Christian leaders who will announce the public launch of the code of conduct, which for the first time ever has achieved such a broad Christian backing, in Geneva on June 28, WEA said in a statement.

“We are very pleased and grateful to God for all those who have worked so hard on the production of this text. The WEA fully endorses this document and recommends it for study and application to all our member alliances, churches, organizations and individuals,” said Tunnicliffe, whose organization represents over 600 million evangelical Christians worldwide. (Online source)

I don’t doubt we’d have to take the broad road to back this doomed document; and “evangelical Christian” has pretty much lost any real meaning. This becomes clear as Kumar continues:

Titled “Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct,” the document is enormously significant in light of the accusation that the Church and missions seek to “unethically” convert non-Christians, especially in the developing world.

It took five years of cooperation between the WEA, the Catholic Church’s Pontifical Council for Inter Religious Dialogue, and the World Council of Churches to reach an agreement on the ethics of Christian mission and evangelism and “the need for every Christian, every church and every Christian organization to live and preach the gospel in accordance with the life and teachings of Jesus,” WEA said. (Online source)

Seriously, I wish I could tell you this document was satire; first of all, the word church above should be lower case because we are not at all talking about the invisible Church—the Body of Christ—but rather, this nauseating toadiness truly has nothing to do with the actual Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In fact, this is the whole point; “unethically” or ethically converting people to what gospel? Make the time to actually read the primary Roman Catholic sources I cite within Has The Roman Catholic Church Really Changed? You’ll discover the answer to that question is an emphatic, no!

Dr. R.C. Sproul is absolutely right when he says:

 The one thing that the spirit of tolerance of our day cannot tolerate is intolerance, because relationships have become more important than truth… The Roman Catholic Church condemns “sola fide! (L.)” Now if, please understand this, if “sola fide (L.)” is the gospel, then the Roman Catholic Church has condemned the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Now, nobody who went to the Council of Trent, as a delegate, went there with the intention of condemning the gospel. The theologians of Rome really believed that they were defending the gospel and that the Protestants had in fact committed apostasy…

Somebody is preaching a different gospel! And when Rome condemned the Protestant declaration of “Justification by faith alone” I believe, Rome, when placing the anathema on “sola fide (L.),” placed the anathema of God upon themselves. I agree with his [John MacArthur] assessment, that the institution [Roman Catholic Church] is apostate!
(Online source)

Yet Kumar tells us:

It took five years of cooperation between the WEA, the Catholic Church’s Pontifical Council for Inter Religious Dialogue, and the World Council of Churches to reach an agreement on the ethics of Christian mission and evangelism and “the need for every Christian, every church and every Christian organization to live and preach the gospel in accordance with the life and teachings of Jesus,” WEA said. (Online source)

So the question I have for these compromisers in the World Evangelical Alliance with their Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct is which gospel is going to be preached; the Biblical one of repentance and forgiveness of sin in Jesus’ Name?

Will it be the Gospel of God Himself in human flesh dying for our sins because salvation is by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in the finished work of Christ alone on the Cross? If so, then the Church of Rome can’t sign on and neither can mainline liberal denominations.

And after all, which Jesus will be proclaimed; the second Person in the Trinity, God who added humanity to His deity in the Virgin Birth, or the human man of progressive liberalism who best exemplified a life lived according to the principles of God through the Christ consciousness that’s within all of us.

Then finally Kumar quotes the WEA trying to slip this one past us:

“It is a historic text both for its content and because this is the first time since the 16th century that the three main bodies representing nearly all of world Christianity jointly endorse one document and recommend it to their respective constituencies,” added WEA, a network of churches in 128 nations that have each formed an evangelical alliance and over 100 international organizations joining together to give a worldwide identity and voice. (Online source)

No, this is an apostate organization which long ago abandoned the love it had at first (cf. Revelation 2:4) and is instead attempting to forge friendship with the world with their pseudo-Christian religion.

This is what the Lord says to them:

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right. “Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil,” declares the Lord.

“Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall,  for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the Lord. “In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.”

“But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
(Jeremiah 23:10-14)

Sadly, the longer the Lord tarries, the more we’ll see false prophets like the WEA running forth with their man-centered message of a phony unity; the wise Christian will have nothing to do with such as these.

See also:

THE EMERGING CHURCH ON ITS WILD GOOSE CHASE

EVANGELICAL CHURCHES PROMOTING ISLAM?

HEARTLAND CLERGY FOR INCLUSION CAUSING DIVISION