Leaders Stress Partnership As Christianity Grows In Global South

As delegates to a World Council of Churches (WCC) gathering noted Christianity’s growth in the global South, church leaders from Africa and Asia stressed that partnership in mission and evangelism is needed more than ever.

“We acknowledge that the growth of Christianity in the global South (Africa and Asia) is the result of the success of the North’s mission and evangelism work,” the Rev. Opoku Onyinah of the Pentecost Bible College in Ghana told ENInews on 23 March.

Speaking before a pre-assembly of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), Onyinah said Pentecostal churches’ emphasis on personal religious experiences and encounters with the Holy Spirit has helped many churches in Africa grow.

“But as the North needs missionaries from the South to help them in their evangelism and mission work, we still need each other’s partnership,” he said. The North, for example, can help provide theological training on mission and evangelism, which many Pentecostals lack, he said.

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Myrtle

I understand that the World Counsel of Churches are a very liberal organization, which seems to be one that is not a JESUS CHRIST promoting organization. Before we get involved with it we need to learn the truth about it. Because we know that Satan has his nose stuck into, especially in things that pertain to JESUS CHRIST. He is, as we know the arch enemy of JESUS.

Any true Christian organization is one WHO HAS COMPLETE FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. If we do not believe this, we are not Christians.
msjallen

This has been going on for a long time. There was a book written in the mid-70’s by Homer Duncan: “Secular Humanism” and in the book he tells how he took a poll at the meeting of the National Council of Churches and here are a few of the questions asked the theologians: How many believe…
In the miracles of Jesus: 66% said no
In the Deity of Christ: 36% said no
In life after death: 31% said no
That Satan exists: 77% said no
The existence of God: 33% said no

What percentage could it be now in 2012? These answers tell us the way our churches are going.
- Myrtlelinder
  
  Thanks, msj… I have heard a lot of things against World Counsel of Churches nothing good or Christian, but could not remember anything specific.
- myth buster
  
  Jesus' issue with the Pharisees was one of integrity- He called them out on their hypocrisy, self-righteousness and willful blindness with regard to the Scriptures, but there were righteous Pharisees who believed in Him. In those days, there was no inherent contradiction between being a Pharisee and being a Christian, and in no way was it forbidden for a Christian to continue practicing Judaism personally, precisely because it was the heritage that found its ultimate example and fulfillment in Christ.
  
  Not so for the Sadducees- Jesus' rebuke of them was much more fundamental. He rebuked their doctrine, not just their behavior. Whereas most of the Pharisees were disobedient to the Scriptures, the Sadducees denied them entirely. The Sadducees denied the Resurrection of the Dead, as well as any doctrine not explicitly found in Torah. It is impossible to be a Sadducee and a Christian; his doctrine forbids accepting Jesus as a prophet or a rabbi, let alone as the Savior. Even if he confessed Jesus as the Son of God, a Sadducee couldn't carry out the logical conclusion of that. He would confess Jesus with his lips, but in his heart not even admit Him to be a teacher or a prophet. A paradox ensues: the Sadducee can confess Jesus as the Word of God made Flesh, yet can't listen to Him. Only by forsaking his Sadducean doctrines can he repent and be saved. Whereas the Pharisee needs to reinterpret his doctrines in light of Christ, the Sadducee needs to abandon them completely.
  
  In short, the Sadducee is not even a Jew, and it is impossible for a Sadducee to be a Christian, regardless of what he says (if he became a Christian, he would no longer be a Sadducee). This, of course, was prophesied by the Apostle Paul, "People will have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof." That is what a Sadducee is- someone who has a form of godliness according to the Torah, but denies that there is any power behind it, or anything to hope for.
Winston

I stopped reading when the article said, "World Council of Churches (WCC)" as it is spiritually corrupt and is behind the "more than one way to God" thought. The WCC is akin to "communitarianism" thought, or "communism lite".
Myrtlelinder

I think you are right, the more I hear the more I can remember. Thanks!!