Search our site Message Board Join our list

As you probably know, we do not link with other Christian websites; most of these sites very obviously are not in favor of the eschatological viewpoint that Antipas is purveying to the world, and are - in fact - very much opposed to it. These are websites that purvey an "escapist" mentality insofar as the "end of the age" is concerned, and/or seek to link the church to right-wing Christian circles in the United States. HENCE, WE NEED YOUR HELP IN GETTING THE MESSAGE OF ANTIPAS OUT TO THE WORLD. We urge you to take an active part in doing so by emailing this article to your friends and loved ones, and by doing so, fulfilling the Word of God in Ezekiel 33:2-6. BECOME A WATCHMAN ON THE WALL; it may cost you everything, but that's a small thing in the light of eternity. PRESS HERE.

EVANGELICALS AND THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Written By
S. R. Shearer

Large numbers of evangelicals including Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and president of the Christian Broadcasting Network; Charles Colson, head of the International Prison Fellowship Ministry; Steve Sheldon, director of the Traditional Values Coalition; Dr. Richard Land and Dr. Larry Lewis, officers of the Southern Baptist Convention; and a great deal of other prominent evangelicals joined with Roman Catholic leaders to endorse a declaration put together by the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic theologian who heads the Institute on Religion and Public Life in Manhattan.

The document is entitled "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium;" the declaration's aim is to promote the growing ties among the nation's largest and most politically active religious groups; its purpose is to encourage continued Christian political activism aimed at "taking the country back for Christ and the church."

Pat Robertson, in approving the document, believes that the moral crisis facing the nation today mandates this kind of closer cooperation. The document reads in part, "As evangelicals and Catholics, we dare not, by needless and loveless conflict between ourselves, give aid and comfort to the enemies (read, the secular-humanists, the ACLU, B'nai Brith, etc. - editor) of the cause of Christ."

The Rev. David Scoates, a Methodist, concurs; he said, "I think it is about time we (all begin to) work together, particularly against evil influences in our society."[2] Steve Sheldon, the political director for the Traditional Values Coalition, added, "We are very excited about the programs that we can accomplish together;" he continued, "We hope to work together (with Catholics) to further our common goals."

Mark Noll, a historian at Wheaton College, agrees; he further notes the implications of all this: that as evangelicals begin to work more closely with Catholics to effect political change in the country, they must stop proselytizing Catholics and thinking of them as "unsaved;" that evangelicals must no longer "... consider Catholics as ogres or anti-Christs." He continues, "In the best American fashion, activism has led to reflection ..." [Maybe, the better word is "compromise" - editor]

Neuhaus, however, exalts in this kind of thinking; he believes that the Catholic Church must now "seize the moment" and take advantage of evangelicalism's new attitude towards cooperation; he writes, "This is the moment in which the Roman Catholic Church can and should be the lead church ... This can and should also be the moment in which the Roman Catholic Church in the United States assumes its rightful role in the culture-forming task of constructing a religiously informed public philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty."[4 ]Ordered liberty? - maybe someone should ask Neuhaus what he means by that.

The Rev. Gregory Coiro of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said that the statement is the "fruit of the time in which we live."[5] Yes, indeed, it is the fruit of the time in which we live! Political activism has evidently become more important to evangelicals than the Gospel. "The times, they are 'a changing'!" - and along with it, countless numbers of evangelicals too.

Written By S. R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries
  1. Dale Vargas, Sacramento Bee, March 30, 1994, pg. A-16.
  2. Ibid., pg. A-16.
  3. Ibid., pg. A-16.
  4. Reported in Liberty Express, November, 1994, pg. 2.
  5. Ibid., pg. 3
  6. Op. Cit., Vargas, pg. A-16.

 

We need your help to spread the word concerning Antipas Ministries and the eschatological viewpoint it represents; WE NEED YOUR HELP BECAUSE WE DO NOT "LINK" WITH OTHER SO-CALLED "CHRISTIAN" WEBSITES which are, for the most part, "in the tank" insofar as their loyalty to the United States is concerned - a loyalty that has made them partners in the BLOODY trail the American military has left in its TERROR-RIDDEN rampage throughout the world, as well as making them partners in the abject poverty that American corporations have imposed on the peoples and nations the American military machine has ravaged - A BLOODY, TERROR-RIDDEN RAMPAGE THAT HAS TO A LARGE DEGREE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF THE "PRINCE OF PEACE." [Please see our articles, "The Third World as a Model for the New World Order," Inside the American New World Order System" and "The American Empire: The Corporate / Pentagon / CIA / Missionary Archipelago."]

YOU CAN HELP BY EMAILING THIS ARTICLE TO
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

PRESS HERE

If you wish to SUBSCRIBE to our website, please feel free to do so; the subscription is free; all you need to do is give us your email address. There is no need for you to give us any other information. Your email address will NEVER be shared with others.

PRESS HERE

PS Have the courage of your convictions! Contribute to the ministry by making out a check to "Antipas Christian Ministry" and sending it to -

Antipas Ministries
1112 Long Rd., #40
Centralia, WA 98531

Or donate through Paypal by clicking the Paypal image below:

We DESPERATELY need your continued SACRIFICIAL financial help. Time is short - and we need to be about the Lord's business as quickly as possible.

If you have any questions, please email us at staff@antipasministries.com.

TOP

HOME | ARTICLES | ABOUT US | SUPPORT US | CONTACT US
© Antipas Ministries