Edinburgh 2010, Re-Union With Rome, and John Knox

by Dr. Paul M. Elliott, President, Teaching The Word Ministries

As the 450th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland approaches, the church founded by John Knox and other stalwarts has taken a major step toward re-union with Rome.

Conversion Minus Christ, Evangelism Minus the Evangel

The recently-concluded Edinburgh 2010 Conference on World Missions was a gathering of liberal's liberals, conducted with the full cooperation and participation of the Roman Catholic Church, the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches. This conference commemorated the centenary of the Edinburgh 1910 Conference on World Missions, which was one of the early meetings of theological liberals and their enablers that led to the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948.

Part of the work of the Edinburgh 2010 "missionary" endeavor involved continued joint work by liberal denominations and the Roman Catholic church on the development of a "code on conversion" detailing "ethical standards for evangelism." But Edinbugh-style "conversion" is conversion without the true Christ, and "evangelism" without the genuine evangel. Edinburgh 2010 was a conclave of apostate church leaders who simply have no idea what the Gospel is. Conference sessions and documents used Biblical terms such as sin, salvation, the new birth, justification, and sanctification — but with an un-Biblical, Rome-compatible ecumenical lexicon defining them.

A Major Step Toward Re-Union

Fittingly, just prior to the Edinburgh 2010 conference, representatives of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) and the Roman Catholic church announced that they have taken a major step toward re-union, adopting a “joint liturgy for the re-affirmation of baptismal vows.” A Scottish newspaper reported that “as a result, Scotland has the first Protestant church in the world to form such a bond with the Catholic Church. The two churches will also join together to mark the 450th anniversary of the Reformation later this year.”

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