Two More Votes for Unity Over Doctrine

From Christian Research Network

Way of Life’s Church News Notes reports on the Pope’s primacy assertion and the ecumenical affirmations of two "Baptists" denominations…

POPE REAFFIRMS THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE ONE TRUE CHURCH "…The San Giovanni Laterno Church is the first church of Rome and an inscription on the front (translated from Latin) says, “MOST HOLY LATERAN CHURCH, MOTHER AND MISTRESS OF ALL CHURCHES OF THE CITY AND THE WORLD.” Rome has never renounced this heresy."

HEAD OF COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP SAYS WE ARE FREE TO EXPERIMENT In his report at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s annual meeting at the end of June, executive coordinator Daniel Vestal said Baptists must celebrate their freedom. He said: “We are free from the institutions of the past even as we birth and build new institutions for the present. We are free to work with people of other faiths for social justice and racial reconciliation. … We are free to experiment. We are free to explore”

BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE STRESSES UNITY OVER DOCTRINE At the July 2-7 meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Accra, Ghana, outgoing general secretary Denton Lotz said, “Some Baptists seem concerned only about doctrine, but Jesus talked about unity as a great doctrine of the faith”

Editor David Cloud writes:
Thus, the fight for doctrinal purity must grow even fiercer in these last days if God’s people are to remain true to the Bible.