Apprising Ministries operates along the Internet Front of this spiritual Vietnam of a Truth War, where in addition to online apologetics and discernment work we are also a Christian news outlet with a sharp theological edge.

Unfortunately, spiritual darkness and apostasy will only continue to spread as God give over the mainstream of His visible church to the same fate as the mortally wounded mainline denominations.

So ministries like this become even more important in keeping you apprised of what’s really going on within the heart of the Christian community so in lust for approval of the pagan world. 

Now we come to Evangelicals Left Off National Cathedral 9/11 Program. In this Fox News report from Todd Starnes we learn:

A weekend of religious-themed observances at Washington National Cathedral marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks will include a Buddhist nun and an Imam, but not an evangelical Christian, leading the head of the Southern Baptist Convention to ask President Obama to reconsider attending the event. (Online source)

I told you before about the spiritual black hole known as the Washington National Cathedral (WNC) when I introduced you to Phyllis Tickle, the Empress of the neo-liberal cult within the Emerging Church.

WNC is by no stretch of the Christian imagination a church of Jesus Christ, but rather, it’s an interfaith pit of vipers filled with unbiblical pastrixes. ^[1] 

Frankly, an actual evangelical ^[2] —in the word’s historic sense—should be glad to have nothing to do with religious observances with unbelieving pagans.

However, having been an SBC pastor since the mid ’90s—and from having dealt with Dr. Frank Page personally when he was SBC President—I’m not surprised at his lack of discernment. ^[3] 

By the way, Page isn’t “the head” of the SBC anymore; although one wonders in an organization with an Idol of Autonomy how could there even be one?

Instead he whines about not being a part of an unbiblical interspiritual event (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:20-21; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18) and asks the unbelieving Barak Obama not to go.

However, the proper course of action is to put on your own Christian observance and then invite Obama to it so he will then hear the genuine Gospel of Jesus Christ preached.

Even if the SBC was there, do we really think this is going to happen at WNC? Starnes explains:

“A Call to Compassion” will include an interfaith prayer vigil on Sept. 11. It will feature the dean of the Cathedral, the Bishop of Washington, a rabbi, Buddhist nun and incarnate lama, a Hindu priest, the president of the Islamic Society of North America and a Muslim musician. (Online source)

The Christian cannot be part of this kind of interspiritual prayer vigil because which god is going to be invoked; if somehow this nation under God’s judgment was to turn around, what god would then get credit?

No, the Christian must be fiercely devoted to Jesus Christ and adamant that He alone receives the glory.

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End Notes:

Back to note 1 — http://tiny.cc/dn0jj, accessed 9/7/11.

Back to note 2 — Dr. Michael Horton gives us the actual definition of evangelicalism in Reformation Essentials – Five Pillars of the Reformation .

Back to note 3 — SBC President Dr. Frank Page Responds To Dr. Ed Young And T.D. Jakes Sharing The Pulpit.

HT: Discern The Time

See also:

THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE WILD GOOSE CHASE INTO POSTMODERN PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY

EVANGELICAL CHURCHES PROMOTING ISLAM?

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