Reconcile This, Rick?

Rick Warren's call for "reconciliation between evangelical and mainstream churches in order to stop the mainline churches from dying adds to the rising tide of ecumenism and deception in Western Evangelicalism.

Here's a quick snapshot of what Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren wants all to embrace and help save these apostate churches:

The Episcopal Church

• Episcopal Church refuses affirmation of Christ : COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/20/06)-The House of Deputies of the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church today overwhelmingly refused to even consider a resolution that affirmed Jesus Christ as the "only name by which any person may be saved."
• Chicago's new Episcopal bishop, national leader speak up for gay clergy. Church's national leader, city's Bishop Jeffrey Lee show their support for the role of gay clergy
• A mirror of Warren's PEACE plan is found in the Episcopal Church's support for the United Nation's Global Millenium Goals.

The United Methodist Church

• The UMC has an extensive history of ecumenism and liberalism, including the ordination of women.
• The UMC is the largest financial supporter of the World Council of Churches. The Pope recently met with the WCC for the first time to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity .
• Almost 400 United Methodists participated in the 1993 World Council of Churches sponsored Re-imaging conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Some 2,000 women "seeking to change Christianity". Speakers included Chung Hyung Kyung, Korean "theologian" who equates the Holy Spirit with ancient Asian deities; Virginia Mollenkott, an avowed pro-abortion lesbian; Elizabeth Bettenhausen, professor at Harvard Divinity School; Lois Wilson, a United Church of Canada "minister"; Jose Hobday, a Roman Catholic nun.

The Roman Catholic Church

This post will not attempt to identify all the implications of apostate Roman Catholicism. However, the following current events highlight some significant issues:

• Plenary indulgence is available to Catholics who travel to Lourdes during the coming year, for the 150th anniversary of the Marian apparitions there. Pilgrims to the shrine in south-west France will receive "plenary indulgences" from the Pontiff, which the Church says reduce the time spent being "washed" of sin after death.
• The Pope invited representatives of Islam to the Vatican to dialogue "common essentials between Islam and Christianity" for a "common commitment to promoting peace in the world"
• The Pope confirms again that "the one and only Church of Christ has subsistence, permanence and stability in the Catholic Church and, consequently, that the unity, indivisibility and indestructibility of the Church of Christ is not invalidated by separations and divisions among Christians." This primacy statement was originally made by the Pope in 2007.

So, America's pastor wants an ecumenical festival of faiths. The Bible has another term for what Rick Warren and others promote. It's called spiritual HARLOTRY. The term also applies to the 40 Days of Purpose and to the thousands of pastors who have led their churches through it.

See more examples of apostasy in other mainline churches here.