The question that comes to me when I think about ecumenism is: how can we have fellowship and partnership in the Gospel with those who do not preach the authentic Gospel and have not received the wisdom taught by the Holy Spirit? There is a danger in ecumenism of finding the lowest common denominator of belief, and then working with people devoid of the Holy Spirit who have no personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must resist those who wish to bring the spirit of the age into the church, rather than the Holy Spirit that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. (Please see 1 Corinthians 2: 12-13.)
There are those who wish to cast aside years of Christian understanding of sexuality and marriage to bring us into line with contemporary thinking and practice.
Please consider this warning. Those who embrace the current zeitgeist and are wedded to the trendy ways of the world, find themselves bereaved, divorced and discredited in the next age, or even generation.
We must resist those who wish to bring the spirit of the age into the church, rather than the Holy Spirit that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. (Please see 1 Corinthians 2: 12-13.)
There are those who wish to cast aside years of Christian understanding of sexuality and marriage to bring us into line with contemporary thinking and practice.
Please consider this warning. Those who embrace the current zeitgeist and are wedded to the trendy ways of the world, find themselves bereaved, divorced and discredited in the next age, or even generation.
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