EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA UNITES WITH MODERNISTS AND CATHOLICS FOR MILLENNIUM PROJECT

EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA UNITES WITH MODERNISTS AND CATHOLICS FOR MILLENNIUM PROJECT

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October 7, 1998 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is uniting with the Canadian Council of Churches to sponsor third millennium ecumenical activities under the name of Together 2000. The proposed projects include ringing church bells on January 1, joint prayers, and banding together for "new projects and acts of compassion." The idea originated with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and was inspired by Don Posterski of World Vision Canada, "who longs to see all Christians in Canada doing something together to usher in the third millennium of Christianity" (Ecumenical News International, Oct. 4, 1999). Posterski wants to see an alliance that is "ecumenical in spirit, evangelical in passion, pentecostal in enthusiasm, catholic and inclusive in scope, and respectful and neighbourly towards everyone."

This is the first time the EFC and the CCC have co-sponsored a project. Participants in Together 2000 include the extremely modernistic United Church of Canada (the former head of the UCC claims Jesus Christ is not God and that He did not rise from the dead), the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, Greek Orthodox and Ukrainian Orthodox.

The Together 2000 project leader is Carolyn Whitney-Brown, a co-worker of the late Henri Nouwen, "a Roman Catholic priest and theologian who was involved in American peace and social justice movements."

Gary Walsh, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada said that this ecumenical endeavor of "participating ecumenically with those whose view of salvation is different" does not "require or cause compromise." The Bible says Walsh is wrong. In John’s second epistle, Christians are warned not to yoke together with those who teach false doctrine about Christ. Even to bid a false teacher "God speed" is to become "partaker of his evil deeds."

"Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds" (2 John 9-11).