{"id":820,"date":"2017-05-06T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2019-09-18T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:56:49","slug":"new-evangelicalism-history-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/new-evangelicalism-history-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"New Evangelicalism: brief history of compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond L. Teachout draws the historical development of the all inclusive mentality in churches. \u201cFinding its origins in German higher critical thinking, liberalism crept into the Protestant scene of North America toward the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Battles were fought \u2013and lost- over its acceptance within the Protestant denominations. The battles were particularly fierce in the Northern Baptist Convention and the Presbyterian Church\u2026. Beyond any other issue, it was the matter regarding inclusivism that determined the outcome of the denominational controversies.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Raymond L. Teachout, <em>Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 17<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> David Cloud recounts:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The critical; onslaught against the Bible began in the late 18<sup>th<\/sup> century but did not begin to receive wide attention until the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. <strong>Modernism<\/strong>, with its unbelieving approach to Scripture, grew up together with Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution and Marx\u2019s theory of communism\u2026. By the early part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, Modernism, in its endless manifestations, had made deep inroads into the mainline Protestant and Baptist denominations. The <strong>Fundamentalist<\/strong>&#8211; Modernist controversy arose when Bible-believing men stood against modernistic unbelief and separated from the denominations that were committed to the same. New denominations and associations were formed by the militant Fundamentalists. Many of the children of these old-time Fundamentals, though, lacked the conviction of their fathers and rejected biblical separation and what they labeled as the unnecessary \u201cnegativism\u201d of their fathers and formed the <strong>New Evangelical<\/strong> movement in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">This was a spirit of neutrality. New Evangelicals claimed to love the truth, but they did not hate error. They practiced infiltration of the modernistic denominations and organizations rather than separation. New Evangelical men, in their enthusiasm for credentials and recognition, in their zeal to meet the Modernists on their own turf, trained at the feet of Modernists\u2026.It is no surprise, then, that the New Evangelical movement was soon influenced by Modernistic thought. New Evangelicalism, with its positive orientation, became immensely popular and spread throughout the old evangelical world. Large ecumenical parachurch evangelistic ministries, such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Campus Crusade for Christ and Youth for Christ, wielded massive influence and spread the New Evangelical philosophies far and wide.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David W. Cloud, <em>Things Hard to be Understood<\/em>, Way of Life Literature, fourth edition, 2006, p. 6-7<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Smith spoke of Billy Graham\u2019s actions which was a destructive compromise. \u201cBilly Graham had decided that most churches in a city had to be united in their invitation to him to come and conduct an evangelistic crusade before he would go to that city and preach. So now representative clergy from nearly the full spectrum of Protestantism would sit behind the evangelist on the crusade platform. Some clergy could be members of the National and World Council of Churches denominations. Not infrequently some clergy would be present who did not believe in inerrancy, the virgin birth of Christ, and other core historic fundamentalist views.\u201d<sup><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">3)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Paul Smith, <em>New Evangelicalism: The New World Order<\/em>, Calvary Publishing, 2011, p. 90<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/sup> Gary Kah recognizing the influence and financial source of the World Council of Churches,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Strongly influenced by the Masonic Lodge and with funding from major \u201cold money\u201d sources such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Council of Churches (WCC) aggressively embarked on its mission.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">4)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Gary H. Kah, <em>The New World Religion<\/em>, Hope International Publishing, Inc., 1999, p. 207<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Confusion concerning doctrine arose as perspectives were fused together under the guise of evangelism \u2013 a new evangelism. Thus, \u201cthis historical drift from inerrancy, as corrupt seed, was sown into the soil of evangelicalism. New evangelicalism sprouted.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">5)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Paul Smith, <em>New Evangelicalism: The New World Order<\/em>, Calvary Publishing, 2011, p. 77<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Robert P. Lightner explained \u201cOthers who were originally stalwarts in the new evangelical camp now no longer wish even to be called new evangelical because of the extreme position which some of their brethren have taken regarding the Scriptures.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">6)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Robert P. Lightner, <em>Neoevangelicalism Today<\/em>, Regular Baptist Press, 1965, 1978, Fifth Edition, p. 15<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Obviously, anything that is not established on the unchanging word of God will share in such a fate. Raymond Teachout wrote, \u201cIf the Scriptures declare that a doctrine is essential to the gospel, then anyone who claims belief in that doctrine, while denying that it is essential, in reality denies the doctrine. One cannot truly believe in the necessary atonement of Christ if he admits the possibility of someone being saved through some other means. Similarly, one cannot truly believe that salvation is by faith alone if he admits that someone can be saved through infant baptism or other sacraments.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">7)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Raymond L. Teachout<em>, Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 152<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Exemplifying this double standard approach to the gospel is Billy Graham who is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u201cI fully adhere to the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith for myself and my ministry,\u201d said the Rev. Billy Graham. \u201cBut, as an American, I respect other paths to God &#8211; and, as a Christian, I am called on to love them.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">8)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Collin Greer, \u201c\u2019Our Task Is To Do All We Can &#8211; Not To Sit And Wait,\u2019\u201d <em>Parade Magazine, <\/em>October 20, 1996: 4-6, as cited by Raymond L. <em>Teachout, Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 55<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther paths\u201d do lead to God &#8211; where He will judge all and separate the sheep from the goats. Respecting false religions does not show love to them, it withholds love from them by allowing them to go to hell respectfully.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Pickering relates, \u201cIn 1957 the tide began to turn with regard to large evangelistic crusades. Billy Graham, a rising star on the evangelistic horizon, decided to broaden his approach and conducted his first ecumenical crusade in New York City. Many of his friends warned against it, and many refused to cooperate, but he persisted in his course, and Graham\u2019s course was set for the remainder of his ministry.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">9)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ernest D. Pickering, <em>The Tragedy of Compromise: The Origin and Impact of the New Evangelicalism<\/em>, Bob Jones University Press, 1994, p. 12<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The following year is recognized as the date New Evangelicalism was born. \u201cHowever, after World War II, a new movement was emerging which came to be called the <em>new evangelical <\/em>movement (some call it <em>neo-evangelicalism<\/em>). In 1948, Harold Ockenga coined the term Neo-Evangelicalism at a convocation of the newly formed Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_10');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_10');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_10\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">10)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_10\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">David H. Sorenson, <em>Broad Is The Way: Fundamentalist Merging into the Evangelical Mainstream<\/em>, Northstar Ministries, 2013, p. 56<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_10').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_10', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> \u201cOne after another, institutions of learning that were built and nurtured by old-time fundamentalists began to fall prey to New Evangelical teaching.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_11');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_11');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_11\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">11)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_11\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ernest D. Pickering, <em>The Tragedy of Compromise: The Origin and Impact of the New Evangelicalism<\/em>, Bob Jones University Press, 1994, p. 120<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_11').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_11', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> The infiltration and compromising fall of these institutions has been documented by David Sorenson in <em>Broad Is The Way<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Gotcher expressing the dialectic ideology essential defines the spirit behind new evangelicalism. \u201cInstead of instructing us to <em>know<\/em>, <em>trust <\/em>and <em>obey<\/em> the Word of God, today there is an emphasis on <em>thinking<\/em> and <em>feeling<\/em> about how we can modify or redefine the Word of God to further human relationships.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_12');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_12');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_12\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">12)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_12\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Dean Gotcher, <em>The Dialectic &amp; Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the Ages<\/em>, Institution for Authority Research, Vol. 1, 1996, p. 9<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_12').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_12', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Consider the popular movements and authors of the past decades that represent \u201cChristian leaders\u201d of the contemporary church. The Promise Keepers Statement of Faith says, \u201cWe believe that we have a God-given mission to unite Christian men\u2026 the biblical directive\u2026 compels us to break down the walls that have divided and polarized the body of Christ for too long.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_13');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_13');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_13\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">13)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_13\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">What is a Promise Keeper?, Promise Keepers 1996, <em>Breakdown the Walls,<\/em> Magazine, p. 5<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_13').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_13', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Rick Warren writes in <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>: \u201cFor the sake of fellowship, do your best to compromise, adjust to others, and show preference to what they need.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_14');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_14');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_14\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">14)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_14\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rick Warren, <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>, Zondervan, 2002, p. 157<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_14').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_14', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Again he states, \u201cBut for unity\u2019s sake we must never let differences divide us.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_15');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_15');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_15\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">15)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_15\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rick Warren, <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>, Zondervan, 2002, p. 161<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_15').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_15', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> He propagates this further in another publication, citing Roman 14:19a from The Message \u201cSo let&#8217;s agree to use all our energy in getting along with each other.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_16');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_16');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_16\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">16)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_16\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rick Warren, General Editor, <em>Better Together: What On Earth Are We Here For<\/em>?, Purpose Driven Publishing, 2004, p. 72<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_16').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_16', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Paraphrases become useful for heretics because \u201cEcumenism stops short of accepting the whole Bible upon which it bases its doctrine of unity.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_17');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_17');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_17\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">17)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_17\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Robert P. Lightner, <em>Neoevangelicalism Today<\/em>, Regular Baptist Press, 1965, 1978, Fifth Edition, p. 103<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_17').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_17', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Either rewrite it or strip its words of any and all definitions with a postmodern philosophy. Representing the emergent church, Leonard Sweet says,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The creation of PALS may point the way home. Harvard\u2019s Rosabeth Moss Kanter has coined the phrase \u201cPALs\u201d to describe how companies around the world are \u201cpooling, allying, and linking.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The church needs to make PALs &#8211; with other denominations, with other faith traditions, and even with some unexpected entities, some of whom might have been adversaries in the past.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_18');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_18');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_18\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">18)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_18\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Leonard Sweet<em>, Soul Tsunami, Sink or Swim in the New Millennium<\/em>, Zondervan, Publishing, 1999, p. 395<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_18').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_18', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the postmodern approach to the Bible and church is to reexamine the truth of the Scriptures by \u201ccontinuing dialogues between world views and interpretive strategies.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_19');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_19');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_19\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">19)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_19\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Edgar V. McKnight, <em>Post-Modern Use of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader &#8211; Oriented Criticism<\/em>, Abingdon Press, 1988, p. 21<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_19').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_19', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Kenneth Copeland claims, \u201cWhen you begin to operate in these things, when you begin to act on the righteousness which Jesus has given you, then you will realize that many of the differences which have separated the Body of Christ for years are actually foolish and unimportant. We have bickered and fought with one another over the most ridiculous issues.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_20');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_20');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_20\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">20)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_20\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Kenneth Copeland, <em>The Force of Righteousness<\/em>, Kenneth Copeland Publications,1983, p. 41<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_20').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_20', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> By \u201cridiculous issues\u201d he apparently means doctrines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">What they don\u2019t realize is this: scriptural unity isn\u2019t on doctrine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Winds of doctrine, according to Ephesians 4:14, are childish. Winds of doctrine don\u2019t unify. They divide and blow people in every direction. The Word doesn\u2019t say anything about us coming into the unity of our doctrines. It says we\u2019ll come into the unity of the <em>faith.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_21');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_21');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_21\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">21)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_21\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, From Faith To Faith: A Daily Guide to Victory, Kenneth Copeland Publications1992, March 23<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_21').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_21', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ephesians 4:14 actually warns us about heretics who deceive immature Christians with false doctrines. \u201cThat we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.\u201d This is a warning of men like Kenneth Copeland!<\/p>\n<p>Ankerberg and Weldon point out the true cause of division in Christianity is false teachers. \u201cIf biblical doctrine is not the final standard, then where does one draw the line between what <em>is<\/em> or <em>isn\u2019t <\/em>Christian? In the end, what remains is only a false or shallow comprehension of Christianity &#8211; and it is this (and wrong theology) which promotes division among Christians.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_22');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_22');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_22\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">22)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_22\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, <em>The Facts On The Faith Movement<\/em>, Harvest House Publishers, 1993, p. 14<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_22').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_22', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Harold Brown rightly observed, \u201cIf we are not happy with heresy, then it will be necessary to accept a fairly substantial dose of doctrinal theology.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_23');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_23');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_23\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">23)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_23\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Harold O. J. Brown, <em>Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church<\/em>, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., fourth printing 2007, originally published under the title <em>Heresies: the Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy<\/em> by Baker Books, 1984, p. 78<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_23').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_23', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> To be a true Christian is to have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:10) we should hate heresy. It is Satan who \u201cblinds the minds of them which believe not\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:4) \u201cWherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ\u201d (1 Peter 1:13). \u201cIn [John 16] verses 17-19, He [Jesus] prays that we may be kept in the <em>truth &#8211; His <\/em>truth. Unity for the believer is full in Christ rather than something to be obtained by consensus of opinion. This unity is to be kept, not established. It is unity that is separated from the world, and maintained in the truth of Christ and His Word.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_24');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_24');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_24\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">24)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_24\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Ken Ham &amp; Greg Hall with Britt Beemer, <em>Already Compromised<\/em>, Master Book, 2011, p. 165<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_24').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_24', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> A small compromise can cause one to fall on the side of great evil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In 1987, Soviet Leader Gorachev met with a large group of U.S. celebrities in Moscow. He outlined to them his new worldview and asked them to help him propagate the new Soviet \u201cgospel.\u201d\u2026 Regrettably, also at the gala was evangelist Billy Graham, who once upon a time bravely condemned globalism, communism, and ecumenism, but has recently softened his views considerably.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_25');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_25');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_25\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">25)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_25\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Texe Marrs, <em>Millennium, Peace, Promises, and the Day They Take Our Money Away<\/em>, Living Truth Publishers, 1990, p. 112<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_25').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_25', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How far will compromise take one? \u201cDr. Billy Graham in his old age has become so ecumenized that he thinks the Mormon Church is a great Christian organization, and the late pope was the foremost ecclesiastical leader in the world.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_26');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_26');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_26\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">26)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_26\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Noah W. Hutchings, <em>The Dark Side of the Purpose Driven Church<\/em>, Expanded Edition, Bible Belt Publishing, 2005, 2007, p. 117-118<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_26').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_26', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Separation is an imperative biblical doctrine. \u201cDoctrine divides believers from unbelievers. Without doctrine there will be no division.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_27');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_27');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_27\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">27)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_27\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Mike Genrdon, <em>Preparing Catholics for Eternity<\/em>, 21st century Press, 2008, p. 25<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_27').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_27', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Terullian implied the mark of a heretic was their willingness to ignore doctrinal differences for the sake of unity. He described Gnostics with these words: \u201cSimplicity they will have to consist in the overthrow of discipline, attention to which on our part they call brotherly. Peace also they huddle up anyhow with all comers; for it matters not to them, however different be their treatment of subjects, provided only they can conspire together to storm the citadel of the one only Truth.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_28');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_820_1('footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_28');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_28\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">28)<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_28\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Tertullian, <em>On Prescription Against Heretics, <\/em>chap. XLI; <em>The Ante-Nicene Fathers<\/em>, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; 1885-1887, Hendrickson, 1994, vol. 3, p. 263<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_28').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_820_1_28', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [2, 2], });<\/script> Evangelicalism is contrasted to fundamentalism as much as the dialectic is opposed to the didactic \u2013 it is a synthesis versus the separatists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a>If you liked this article, you may also be interested in <strong><em>Crept In Unawares: Mysticism<\/em><\/strong> by Heath Henning is available for purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1692362542\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crept+in+unawares&amp;qid=1568380588&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/truthwatchers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Crept-In-Unawares-Mysticism-min.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_820_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_820_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_820_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_820_1\" style=\"display: none;\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Raymond L. Teachout, <em>Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 17<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">David W. Cloud, <em>Things Hard to be Understood<\/em>, Way of Life Literature, fourth edition, 2006, p. 6-7<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Paul Smith, <em>New Evangelicalism: The New World Order<\/em>, Calvary Publishing, 2011, p. 90<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Gary H. Kah, <em>The New World Religion<\/em>, Hope International Publishing, Inc., 1999, p. 207<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_5');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_5\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Paul Smith, <em>New Evangelicalism: The New World Order<\/em>, Calvary Publishing, 2011, p. 77<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_6');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_6\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Robert P. Lightner, <em>Neoevangelicalism Today<\/em>, Regular Baptist Press, 1965, 1978, Fifth Edition, p. 15<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_7');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_7\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>7<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Raymond L. Teachout<em>, Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 152<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_8');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_8\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>8<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Collin Greer, \u201c\u2019Our Task Is To Do All We Can &#8211; Not To Sit And Wait,\u2019\u201d <em>Parade Magazine, <\/em>October 20, 1996: 4-6, as cited by Raymond L. <em>Teachout, Breaking Down the Walls\u2026 and the Gospel: The Subversion Work of \u201cEvangelical Inclusivism<\/em>\u201d, E-B-P-A, 1999, p. 55<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_9');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_9\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>9<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ernest D. Pickering, <em>The Tragedy of Compromise: The Origin and Impact of the New Evangelicalism<\/em>, Bob Jones University Press, 1994, p. 12<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_10');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_10\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>10<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">David H. Sorenson, <em>Broad Is The Way: Fundamentalist Merging into the Evangelical Mainstream<\/em>, Northstar Ministries, 2013, p. 56<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_11');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_11\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>11<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Ernest D. Pickering, <em>The Tragedy of Compromise: The Origin and Impact of the New Evangelicalism<\/em>, Bob Jones University Press, 1994, p. 120<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_12');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_12\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>12<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Dean Gotcher, <em>The Dialectic &amp; Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the Ages<\/em>, Institution for Authority Research, Vol. 1, 1996, p. 9<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_13');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_13\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>13<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">What is a Promise Keeper?, Promise Keepers 1996, <em>Breakdown the Walls,<\/em> Magazine, p. 5<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_14');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_14\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>14<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Rick Warren, <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>, Zondervan, 2002, p. 157<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_15');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_15\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>15<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Rick Warren, <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>, Zondervan, 2002, p. 161<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_16');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_16\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>16<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Rick Warren, General Editor, <em>Better Together: What On Earth Are We Here For<\/em>?, Purpose Driven Publishing, 2004, p. 72<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_17');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_17\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>17<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Robert P. Lightner, <em>Neoevangelicalism Today<\/em>, Regular Baptist Press, 1965, 1978, Fifth Edition, p. 103<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_18');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_18\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>18<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Leonard Sweet<em>, Soul Tsunami, Sink or Swim in the New Millennium<\/em>, Zondervan, Publishing, 1999, p. 395<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_19');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_19\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>19<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Edgar V. McKnight, <em>Post-Modern Use of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader &#8211; Oriented Criticism<\/em>, Abingdon Press, 1988, p. 21<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_20');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_20\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>20<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Kenneth Copeland, <em>The Force of Righteousness<\/em>, Kenneth Copeland Publications,1983, p. 41<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_21');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_21\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>21<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, From Faith To Faith: A Daily Guide to Victory, Kenneth Copeland Publications1992, March 23<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_22');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_22\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>22<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">John Ankerberg &amp; John Weldon, <em>The Facts On The Faith Movement<\/em>, Harvest House Publishers, 1993, p. 14<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_820_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_820_1_23');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_820_1_23\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>23<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Harold O. 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