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Background
Information.
[1]
In 1980, The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism (LCWE) sponsored the
Consultation on World Evangelisation (COWE) in Pattaya, Thailand. "Reaching
Jews" was one of the 17 mini-consultation groups at that event. The enthusiasm
of the leaders in the field of Jewish evangelism who attended to expand the
network gave rise to the formation of a task force, now called the Lausanne
Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE).
Who
is involved ?
Tuvya
Zaretsky, President of LCJE International Committee.
[2]
Tuvya Zaretsky is one of the founders of the Jews for Jesus ministry. He was
the first field missionary beginning his service in February 1974. Tuvya continues
to serve the Lord, now as the Director of Staff Development internationally
in the Los Angeles office. He also chairs the Board for the Jews for Jesus
in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jews for Jesus joining hands with Rome
Having
phoned Jews for Jesus in London, the person on the phone stated that Jews
for Jesus does not concern it self with doctrinal differences concerning Jews
becoming Roman Catholics, it is more important that they believe in Jesus,
by its nature Jews for Jesus are not separatists, and state that we should
not divide on doctrinal diffrences. Although the person on the phone would
not answer my questions, such as "does Jews for Jesus have any issue
with the ecumenism around unity with the RCC" the question remained unanswered
but they did state that "they have representatives from Jews for Jesus
that do speak at Roman Catholic Churches where they are accepted, but not
all of them do". For more info on Jews for Jesus and ecumenism please
refer to my
page on Jews for Jesus.
Jews for Jesus are part of a bigger ecumenical organisation [3]
called the Joshua Project 2000 [4]
who were formally known as AD2000. [5]
they state "Joshua Project was originally birthed in 1995 within
the former AD2000 and Beyond Movement. From 2001 through 2005 Joshua Project
was at different times informally connected with Caleb Project, ICTA and World
Help. In 2006 Joshua Project officially became a ministry of the U.S. Center
for World Mission."
Along side The AD2000 Resource Networks (Tracks) and Task Forces and Their
Leaders are Mobilization of United Prayer - which include Peter & Doris
Wagner. Peter Wagner is the founder of [6]
Global Havest Ministries, [7]
the International Coalition of Apostles (ICA) [8]
and co-founder of the World Prayer Center, in 1982 Wagner Joined with John
Wimber, the founder of Vineyard, to create a new course at Fuller Theological
Seminary School of World Mission called "Signs, Wonders and Church Growth".
Jews for Jesus and the Cell Church Movement
Jews for Jesus involvement with the WCM goes back clearly to their speaking engagement and participation at GCOWE '95 which was sponsored by Christo/pagan Paul (David) Yonggi Cho at his megachurch in Seoul, South Korea, and perhaps before. Staff from Fullers School of World Missions went to Korea as well to find out about the cell church movement from Cho. "The purpose was to learn how to plant churches in the same fashion..."13. (Media Spotlight, p. 10, The World Christian Movement,Albert James Dager; Volume 22-Number 1, April, 1999)
A breif history of the Cell Church Movement
[9] (A report from a former associate of John Wimber)
"...during the "think tank" years at Fuller Seminary, when John Wimber, David Yonggi Cho, C. Peter Wagner, Bill Bright [CNP], Jay Grimstead, Donald McGavran, Ralph Winter, Billy Graham, David DuPlessis, Robert Grant (CNP), Don Richardson, etc., etc.. were all there.. and the "strategies" and "methodologies" of "taking the world for Jesus" were being developed (i.e. Lausanne, GCOWE, AD2000 and Beyond Movement strategies, the contextualized gospel, the global "harvest" and "revival" ect).... John traveled extensively for Fuller as a "church growth expert (i.e. cell group theory ala Cho) and taught seminars worldwide to hundreds of thousands of pastors "equipping" them for ministry.. by the impartation of the "gifts" and "ministries" of the Holy Spirit.. John promoted and taught and trained up hundreds of thousands of workers globally to take their places in the new found "apostolic network"... each submitted under a "mentor" or person above them in a hierarchal authority structure - also known as "shepherding" doctrine.. he and Cho also introduced these ideas to the church in China.. those attending Vineyard churches these past twenty years have all been "equipped" to "use their gifts" in the manner prescribed by their doctrine, and under their authority..."
"...John
could secretly know that his position in the hierarchy (as an apostle) was
completely assured. He went on from retiring from the Association of the Vineyard
Churches to working directly with Schuller, Cho, Hayford et al in perfecting
their cell model through the post-denominational church movement and "Touch
Ministries", the "Antioch Church Network" and much much more..."
Global Consultation on World Evangelization (GCOWE)
and the LCJE
[10]
LCJE-NA representative was privilege to attend what
some were calling at that time the most strategic and significant gathering
of Christian leaders in the history of missions: a 10-day Global
Consultation on World Evangelization in Seoul, Korea, with about
4,000 delegates from almost every nation in the world.
The Global Consultation on World Evangelization is part of [11]
AD2000 and Beyond a report from the [12]
dated October 1, 2000 the International Bulletin of Missionary Research states
"(3) In January 1989 mission leaders from fifty countries met in
Singapore in the Global Consultation on World Evangelization (GCOWE) to consider
marking the end of the century as a goal for completing world evangelization.
Representatives of the Roman Catholic communion were among the 314 participants.
They too had sights set on the millennial year. Pope John Paul II, in 1987,
had already proclaimed 1990-2000 the "Universal decade of evangelization,
in order to put the Good News of salvation in the hands of every person before
the dawn of the Third Millennium." The goal of the program was "a
world more Christian than not by the year 2000."
Reference quote from:
(3.) Tom Forrest, "The Strategy of Evangelization 2000," New
Evangelization 2000, no. 4, 1988. The hope was to "give Jesus the 2000th
birthday gift most pleasing to him: the world for which he died...won for
him!" Forrest's article was reprinted in Towards AD 2000 and Beyond:
A Reader, compiled by Luis Bush, Jay Gary, and Mike Roberts for the (Singapore
1989) Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond.
More details in the article state:
The AD 2000 Movement not only has been interdenominational in its constituency
but international as well. In 1987 the individual who canvassed mission leaders
to see if there was interest in launching an AD 2000 program was Thomas Wang,
a Chinese, then serving as international director of the Lausanne Committee;
he would soon become chairman of the AD 2000 Movement. The AD 2000 international
director, Luis Bush, is the son of a British businessman who raised his family
in Argentina and Brazil. Bush served as a pastor in El Salvador and as director
of Partners International before taking up the leadership of AD 2000. The
two primary collectors of global data are British: David B. Barrett, director
of World Evangelization Movement, Richmond, Virginia, and Patrick Johnstone,
research secretary for WEC International, Gerrards Cross, England.
Obviously the architects of the AD 2000 Movement had a great deal of history
to inform their vision. One who played a major role in helping them to take
history seriously was Todd Johnson, a member of Youth with a Mission (YWAM)
and a son-in-law of Ralph D. Winter. Winter, founder of the U.S. Center for
World Mission and general director of the Frontier Mission Fellowship, Pasadena,
California, is known for his plea for the unreached peoples at the International
Congress on World Evangelization, held in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over
the last quarter of a century Winter has been developing some of the key missiological
concepts behind the present movement. The first half of the AD 2000 watchword,
"A church for every people by A.D. 2000," was forged at a frontier
missions consultation held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1980, a meeting substantially
inspired by Winter.
Quote from a comment written by Tomas Wang:
In the compilation of articles prepared for the 1989 Singapore GCOWE (Global
Consultation on World Evangelization) meeting, Thomas Wang quoted Winter approvingly:
"We believe there are ample evangelical resources . . . to make a serious
attempt to plant the church within every people [group] by the year 2000....
We believe... that the very end of history may therefore be near."(14.)
(14.) Thomas Wang, "By the Year 2000," in Towards AD 2000 and
Beyond, p. 2
Going back to the article written by the LCJE they state "But it
is interesting that a historic meeting of leaders of believers in Jesus like
this was held in a place like Seoul, and not Jerusalem, where it all began.
"
The Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE)
and The Lausanne Consultation on World Evangelisation (LCWE).
Acording to Jews for Jesus in Australia [13]
"In 1980, The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism (LCWE) sponsored
the Consultation on World Evangelisation (COWE) in
Pattaya, Thailand." (this was able to help the LCJE) "Reaching
Jews" was one of the 17 mini- consultation groups at that event. The
enthusiasm of the leaders in the field of Jewish evangelism who attended to
expand the network gave rise to the formation of a task force, now called
the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE).
[14]
The LCOWE is the parent body from which LCJE was launched in 1980 [15]
acording the LCJE "The1983 paper commissioned by the Lausanne Consultation
of World Evangelism (LCWE) passionately pleaded for more cooperation in the
Body. Since the LCJE is connected to the LCWE"
also quotes “. …independence of the church is bad,
cooperation with the church is better, service as an arm of the church is
best.”
The LCJE is quoting from
John Stott’s Theological Preamble to “Cooperating in World Evangelization:
A Handbook on Church/Parachurch Relationships,” an Occasional Paper
of the Lausanne Consultation for World Evangelization, 1983.
The LCJE
is against Biblical separitism over doctrine, they do not want to remain independent
from the LCWE.
This quote is in intended for the unity of all denominations including the
Roman Catholic Church, Greek Otherdox and Lutherine etc... to say that the
LCJE is connected to the LCWE, is that they have the same ecumenical spirit,
again this is linking with the Roman Catholic Church "The Lausanne
Consultation for World Evangelization (LCWE) felt strongly enough about cooperation
between church and parachurch groups, that in 1983 it commissioned ten scholars
to do a careful analysis of the subject."
They also state The1983 paper commissioned by the Lausanne Consultation
of World Evangelism (LCWE) passionately pleaded for more cooperation in the
Body. Since the LCJE is connected to the LCWE, using material from this paper
is a good place to start this examination. Here is a quotation
from the Occasional Paper that relates to us:
Yet we who
share the same biblical faith should be closely united in fellowship,
work and witness. We confess our testimony has sometimes been marred
by sinful individualism and needless duplication.
We pledge ourselves to seek a deeper unity
in truth, worship, holiness and
mission.
We urge the development of . . . strategic planning, for mutual encouragement,
and for the sharing of resources and experience.
So the LCJE wants cooperation in its body with the LCWE as they share "the
same Biblical faith" and want to be "Closely united
with them in fellowship"
they also want "deeper unity, worship and Mission" in order that
they can have a development of strategic planning ? Mutual Encouragement and
Sharing of Resources and Experience ?
The LCJE are closely
united with the LCWE in fellowship, regardless of the ecumenical History of
the LCWE.
The LCWE has ecumenical relations with the [16]
Roman Catholic Church, the LCJE admittingly share "the same Biblical
faith".
Lausanne states "An important event took place on June 19.
Dr. Norberto Saracco Lausanne International Deputy Director for
Latin America, was one of the organizers.
He says: It was important
for what the Catholic Church represents in Latin America and because of the
growth of the evangelical church.
Evangelical and Catholic charismatics overwhelmed the facilities
of the Luna Park to pray by the unity of the Christians, guided
by the preacher of the Pontifical House, Rainiero Catalamessa, and the Shepherd
of the Evangelical Church of the Reconciliation, Giovanni Traettino. The
ecumenical demonstration counted with the participation of the primate of
Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Buenos Aires) who received on his knees
the blessing of the 7.000 persons that were in the place.
The motto of the encounter organized by the Communion Renewed of
Evangelical and Catholic in the Holy Spirit (CRECES) was “that all
of them may be one, so that the world may believe”
The LCJE states [17]
"If the LCJE could foster these attitudes between missions and congregations,
face the reasons for the lack of cooperation and get over the competition
that exists, we will all achieve more for the Kingdom of God."
Referring to the Consultation in Thailand, the LCWE said that a
“change is now called for in our attitudes to one another as we ‘strive
side by side for the faith of the gospel.’” Another
statement in the paper reminded the readers that, "Christianity
is basically a religion of relationships. Relationships are of deeper significance
than organizational structure and identity."
The struggle for the preservation of organizational identity must
not be permitted to disrupt spiritual relationships, whatever our rights may
be.
The LCWE urged that “we need to repent of the spiritual pride and selfishness which often appears to be at the root of deteriorating relationships.”
What
is the Criteria for Joining the LCJE ?
Acording to Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE)
[18]
to join you need to agree to the Lausanne Covenant, their ecumenical statement
is this [19]
"Therefore, in the light of this our faith and our resolve,
we enter into a solemn covenant with God and with each other,
to pray, to plan and to work together for the evangelization of
the whole world. We call upon others to join us. May God
help us by his grace and for his glory to be faithful to this our covenant!"
The LCJE admittedly accepts the same covanant as the Roman Catholic Church
who also accept the Lausanne Covenant. This shows that the Vatican has no
problem with it, in keeping with many other denominations.
The langauge used in the Lausanne Covenant is the same language used by
plenty of Catholic organisations such as
[20] The Marian
Community of Reconciliation (MCR), We live a full apostolic availability,
which is to give our entire lives freely to the
evangelization of the whole world. Looking to Holy Mary, we assume
the mission of living, like Her, an authentic spiritual motherhood.
[21]
Letter from Mary's Touch By Mail on the occasion of the election of Pope Benedict
XVI quote "we will be amazed at the miracles of our own lives changing
for the better and the whole Church restoring the splendor of her
truths and the vitality and fervor among her members for
the evangelization of the whole world. ",
[22]
Archdiocese of Denver "Marian Community of Reconciliation" ("The
Fraternas") They live out full apostolic availability, dedicating themselves
entirely to "the evangelization of the whole world".
[23]
Pontifical Society for the Propagation of Faith, "To increase spiritual
and material assistance between particular churches, with particular
attention to the exchange of apostolic personnel with a view to the evangelization
of the whole world."
[24]
The Vatican, The Holy See website under "The Catholic Church
as an Evangelizing Community" 49. The mystery of Church
communion is intimately linked with the Church's evangelizing mission. Jesus
Christ himself referred to the unity of the Church as an aspect which compels
and strengthens mission: "that they may all be one;.............Indeed,
the Catholic Church in the hemisphere can offer to the evangelization
of the whole world an evangelical witness of communion of inestimable
value.
[25]
The Affirmation of the Lausanne Covenant (1974) is clearly outlined in the
Article from: International Review of Mission
July 1, 2001, called the ECUMENICAL AFFIRMATION ON MISSION AND EVANGELISM:
written by JEAN S. STROMBERG [26]
executive director, US Office of the World Council of Churches
(WCC).
Acording to the article JEAN S. STROMBERG had
produced some significant documents on mission and evangelism, such
as the Lausanne Covenant (1974).
This also states that "at the Nairobi assembly, the moderator of the
central committee, M.M. Thomas, devoted a section of his report to the topic
of evangelism, noting theological convergence in the results of the Bangkok
World Mission Conference in 1973, the International Congress on World Evangelization
in Lausanne, 1974, the Bishops Synod in Rome on Evangelism in the
Modern World, 1974 and the Orthodox meeting in Bucharest in 1974
on Confessing Christ Today."
The Lausanne Covenant.
Under the lausanne Covenant it states [27]
"We, members of the Church of Jesus Christ, from more than 150 nations,
participants in the International Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne,"
Religion-online.org
[28]
quote "The International Congress on World Evangelization
was held in Lausanne (Switzerland). It was a gathering of over
2400 participants belonging to 135 Protestant denominations from 150 countries.
Half the participants were from the third world. "Some hoped, while others
feared that Lausanne would usher in a global organization in opposition to
the WCC.
This did not happen. Instead the Evangelicals were
challenged to rethink their theological position with regard to mission. Lausanne
proved to be a new beginning, as far as the Evangelicals were
concerned, in re-evaluating their missionary theology and their relationship
to the ecumenical movement." Religion-online is a organisation that contains
more than 6,000 articles and chapters.
Both in the speeches and in the statements of Lausanne, there
was a note of repentance. John Stott, a leading evangelical theologian
and New Testament scholar from Britain
said at Lausanne:
"I
do not propose to put up a few ecumenical skittles in order to knock them
down with well-aimed evangelical balls, so that we can all applaud
our easy victory! We all know that during the last few years, especially between
Uppsala and Bangkok, ecumenical-evangelical relations hardened into something
like a confrontation. I have no wish to worsen the situation...
I hope in my paper to strike a note of evangelical repentance...
We have some important lessons to learn from our ecumenical critics. Some
of their rejection of our position is not a repudiation of biblical truth,
but rather of our evangelical. caricatures of it."
Lausanne was a repudiation of several of the criticisms raised by McGavran
against the World Council of Churches’ understanding of mission; and,
like the conference in Bangkok, it came to a comprehensive
understanding of salvation. It was a great step in the narrowing of the gulf
between the Evangelicals and the Ecumenicals., David Bosch observed:
"The Lausanne Covenant
is one of the most remarkable evangelical documents of recent decades and
one with which a wide spectrum of Christians can identify, inter-alia because
of its comprehensive and unpolemical nature. Much of what it affirms differs
only slightly from WCC positions at the time."
Flaws in the lausanne Covenant.
The Lausanne
Covernant is not clearly black and white, what they state and mean are two
diffrent things, this covenant created by the executive director,
US Office of the WCC. Shows
the Covenants clear ecumenical plan.
[29]
2. THE AUTHORITY AND POWER OF THE BIBLE
"He illumines the minds of God's people in every culture
to perceive its truth freshly through their own eyes and thus discloses to
the whole Church ever more of the many-colored wisdom
of God."
Rome would not have issues with this statement, within
Lausanne this includes, Anglican Communion, Assyrian Church of the
East, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church,
Latin Rite, Eastern Catholic Churches, Other Churches that call themselves
Catholic, Roman, (Continuing and Independent) Anglican, Orthodox, Pre-Lutheran
Protestants, Lutheranism, Reformed Churches, Presbyterianism, Congregationalist
Churches, Anabaptists, Brethren, Methodists, Pietists and Holiness Churches,
Baptists, Spiritual Baptists, Apostolic Churches - Irvingites, Charismatics,
Neo-Charismatic Churches, African Initiated Churches, United and uniting churches,
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Restorationism: Stone-Campbell Movement,
Southcottites, Millerites and Comparable groups, Sacred Name Groups, Bible
Student Groups, Anglo-Israelism and Messianic Jewish groups.
3. THE UNIQUENESS AND UNIVERSALITY OF CHRIST
"All men and women are perishing because of sin, but God loves
everyone, not wishing that any should perish but that all should
repent."
Rome would not have problems
with this statement, nowhere does it state this in the Bible.
4. THE NATURE OF EVANGELISM
"To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for
our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that
as the reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating
gifts of the Spirit to all who repent and believe. Our Christian presence
in the world is indispensable to evangelism, and so is that kind of dialogue
whose purpose is to listen sensitively in order to understand. But evangelism
itself is the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Saviour and
Lord, with a view to persuading people to come to him personally and so be
reconciled to God. In issuing the gospel invitation we have no liberty to
conceal the cost of discipleship. Jesus still calls all who would follow him
to deny themselves, take up their cross, and identify
themselves with his new community. The results of evangelism
include obedience to Christ, incorporation into
his Church and responsible service in the world."
Rome would not
have a problem with this statement, this so-called new community.
as Dwight Longenecker former Evangelical states "But the Pope calls all
Christians to profound conversation of heart in order for ecumenism to take
place. In his encyclical Ut Unim Sint, he writes, Their can be no ecumenism
worthy of the name without a change of heart personally as well as communally.
Each one has to change his way of looking at things.' He calls Catholics Orthodox
and Protestance to move forward into a new re-formation of the church, ' The
Second Vatican Council, connecting renewal, conversion and reform states that
Christ summons the whole church... to a continual reformation.' ...... the
Pope calls the whole church to join in a quest for a "new kind of Christianity"
in which all Christians can once more unite"
A book titled
Path to Rome by Dwight Longenecker states.
"As Vatican
II really gets into the bloodstream of the Church, the old doctrinal and liturgical
missunderstandings will also dissapear at a grass roots level. Catholics will
become more evangelical and evangelicals will become more Catholic. Lynn Jolly
points out in her essay that Tillich referred to the 'era' of reform, rather
then the churches of the reformation, and as one Catholic bishop has remarked,
'The era of reform is over.' "
6. THE CHURCH AND EVANGELISM
"In the Church's
mission of sacrificial service evangelism is primary. World
evangelization requires the whole Church to take the whole gospel to
the whole world."
Rome would definately
align itself with this statement.
7. COOPERATION IN EVANGELISM
"We affirm that the
Church's visible unity in truth is God's purpose. Evangelism
also summons us to unity, because our oneness strengthens our witness,
just as our disunity undermines our gospel of reconciliation. We recognize,
however, that organisational unity may take many forms and does not necessarily
forward evangelism. Yet we who share the same biblical
faith should be closely united in fellowship, work and
witness. We confess that our testimony has sometimes been marred by a sinful
individualism and needless duplication. We pledge
ourselves to seek a deeper unity in truth, worship,
holiness and mission. We urge the development of regional
and functional cooperation for the furtherance of the Church's mission,
for strategic planning, for mutual encouragement, and for the sharing
of resources and experience."
Rome most curtanly
has no problems with this statement, by its nature this is a very clear and
strong ecumenical statement.
9. THE URGENCY OF THE EVANGELISTIC TASK
"More than 2,700 million people, which is more than two-thirds of all
humanity, have yet to be evangelised. We are ashamed that so many have been
neglected; it is a standing rebuke to us and to the whole Church. There is
now, however, in many parts of the world an unprecedented receptivity to the
Lord Jesus Christ. We are convinced that this is the time for churches
and para-church agencies to pray earnestly for the salvation of the unreached
and to launch new efforts to achieve world evangelization. A
reduction of foreign missionaries and money in an evangelised country may
sometimes be necessary to facilitate the national church's growth in self-reliance
and to release resources for unevangelised areas. Missionaries should flow
ever more freely from and to all six continents in a spirit of humble service.
The goal should be, by all available means and at the earliest possible time,
that every person will have the opportunity to hear, understand, and to receive
the good news. We cannot hope to attain this goal without sacrifice. All of
us are shocked by the poverty of millions and disturbed by the injustices
which cause it. Those of us who live in affluent circumstances accept our
duty to develop a simple life-style in order to contribute more generously
to both relief and evangelism."
Rome has no problems with this statement world evangelization is the Vatican's
goal in order to turn men and women into good Roman Catholics.
These are some of the examples and statements from the Lausanne Covernant
and my advice would be that people should not sign themselves up to it.
Having written a 500
page book exposing the UK Hope
08 ecumenical/interfaith movement to unite all denominations and work
with other faith groups, I had receaved an email from Adrian Glasspole dated
Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 at 17:20.
"Adrian Glasspole" <jewishevangelist@hotmail.co.uk>
Dear Sirs
Recently you sent me your e-book and the web links.
Some things have me just a little confused, and I wonder if you could perhaps
help me, please?
As an active member of LCJE, I do not recall ever seeing anyone from your
organisation at our meetings. Correct me if I am wrong.
You have my previous address, and I wonder if you would be so kind as to tell
me your source? You feel that you are the person to denounce ministries
and people about whom you know little or nothing first hand.
Ths is gossiping at its worst. Gossiping is sinful; gossiping against your
brothers and sisters in Messiah is even more so.
Perhaps you could at least meet with those whom you denounce before denouncing
them? Would that not be more honest and therefore more like Yeshua?
Sirs, whatever you may think is your "ministry", I do not recall
ever reading about a "Ministry of Tearing Down".
(At this point Adrain Glasspole shows his ecumenical possition).
What I do remember reading
is that it is when we have genuine love for each other that the world will
know who we follow.
The flipside of course is this: if you have no love for Believers, you do
not follow Yeshua. Your retort will doubtless be that we are not true Believers;
that, though, is a dreadful thing to say. But maybe you have special insight
into whether a person is truly a Believer?
I shall not expect a response. Doubtless you will now denounce me as some
kind of "heretic". This does not bother me in the least.
You just need to know that your e-book and website are offensive
in the extreme, and based not on truth but on judgementalism. Shame on you.
Adrian Glasspole
CMJ's Northern based Evangelist
CMJ is 200!! A History to Celebrate - A Future to Declare
Eagle Lodge; Hexgreave Estate; Farnsfield; Newark NG22 8LS
H.Q. Telephone: 01623 883960
www.cmj.org.uk
What adrean is saying is this.
In this statement
David W Cloud wrote.
When Bible-believing Christians take the Word of God and measure leaders,
churches, denominations and movements today by it, ecumenical types invariably
charge them with a lack of love. A woman recently wrote to me and said:
"You preach separatism. What about unity?
You preach
about heresy. WHAT ABOUT LOVE? ...
From what I have viewed on your website, you hold your views as high as the
Bible itself.
What you call "zeal for the Bible" I call arrogance and pride. If you knew the Bible as well as you claim, then I believe you'd live it. The lost will never be reached through such hatred" (Letter from a reader, May 1997).
This lady was upset about our preaching, but instead of explaining our alleged error carefully from the Bible, she charges us with a lack of love, and this, inspite of her own haughty and incredibly judgmental attitude toward me! To this brainwashed generation, the negative aspects of biblical Christianity are unloving. To carefully test things by the Bible is unloving.
To warn of false gospels is unloving. To mark and avoid false teachers is mean-spirited and unloving. To preach high and holy standards of Christian living is unloving legalism. To discipline heretics is unloving.
A few years ago, Evangelist Jack Van Impe rejected biblical separatism and went over to the ecumenical philosophy. He said:
"Let's
forget our labels and come together in love, and the pope has called for that.
I had 400 verses on love. Till I die I will proclaim nothing but love for
all my brothers and sisters in Christ, my Catholic brothers and sisters, Protestant
brothers and sisters, Christian Reformed, Lutherans, I don't care what label
you are. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love
one to another."
This
is the popular view of love, but it is false and dangerous.
Adreans support of the Ecumenical Interfaith Hope 2008
[30]
Adrian Glasspole (Guest) (22/01/2007, 12:58)
During my 24 hours on January 9th, I couldn't help the feeling of loneliness.
Manchester is a wonderful place; many Church groups are friendly.
Yet loneliness is killing people.
Adrean Glasspole involvement with the ecumenical/interfaith Salvation
Army Please refare to the section on Jews
for Jesus this states [31]
MANY of you will be interested to hear that the newly
appointed National Evangelist/Encourager/Trainer at CMJ (the
Church’s Ministry Among Jewish People) is on the roll at Bristol
Citadel Corps.
Adrian Glasspole is a Jewish believer in Jesus, who was enrolled as a soldier
in 1993. Now living in Manchester with his wife Kim, he still has many friends
at the Citadel.
He tells me he is very much involved in the (Ecumenical Interfaith) local
Evangelical Alliance and the More Than Gold initiative concerning the Army’s
ministry at this year’s
Commonwealth Games, and keeps in touch with a number of staff at Central North
DHQ.
Adrean Glasspole
part of the LCJE admittingly ecumenical.
[32]
Adrean Glasspole is on page 21 promoting his new book and Page 13 Title:
The LCJE's first ecumenical gathering reports.
"The first was an ecumenical gathering organized by the Messianic Jewish community of Buenos Aires on October 20, 2008. The event took place at the “Beit Sar Shalom Center,” and the main speakers were the Roman Catholic Archbishop, Monsignor Luis Alberto Rivas of Saint Joseph Basilica, Dr. Thomas MacKey of Once Baptist Church, and Messianic Rabbi Ricardo Chemi, from Chosen People Ministries Argentina. The theme was “Sukkoth, A Vision of Hope for Eternal Indwelling for All Believers.” Monsignor Rivas opened, speaking on the topic of “The Eternal Hope For All Believers.” In addition to the importance of having such a high ranking Archbishop of the Catholic Church attend a Messianic Jewish gathering for the first time, there was a musical recital by the Choir of the Church of Pilar and Flores, one of the most outstanding choirs in Argentina. Dr. Tomas MacKey spoke on the prophetic significance of the feast of Tabernacles, and he was also accompanied by his church choir. Messianic Rabbi Ricardo Chemi ended with the topic “Yeshua portrayed in the Jewish Festivals.” "
Dr. Tomas
McKey,
Messianic Rabbi Ricardo Chemi,
and Roman Catholic Archbishop
Luis Alberto Rivas praying together.
Page 14:
As a consequence of the ecumenical event convened by the Messianic
Jewish community of Buenos Aires, the most important Argentine
newspaper, Clarin, ran two articles on Messianic Judaism. Rabbi Chemi was
interviewed, and he unashamedly said that those who follow Jesus,
whether they be Catholic, evangelical, or Messianic Jewish, need to respect
but to reach out in love to the Jewish community with the gospel message.
It was the first time that a major newspaper, with a daily circulation nationwide
of 2 million copies, introduced Messianic Judaism to the general public. Another
event that made an impact on Jewish evangelism was the “Conference on
Israel and the Church,” convened by Chosen People Ministries and chaired
by Dr. Carlos Villanueva, Dean of the Baptist Seminary of Buenos Aires.
It is my desire that more Latin American leaders will attend LCJE events and
that there will be a time in the near future when we will have
a Latin American Conference of the LCJE.
By
David Sedaca
Chosen People Ministries
chosenpeople.com
[33]
Twenty-sixth
North American LCJE Meeting:
Phoenix, 2-4 March 2009
International LCJE Report 2009
Kai Kjær-Hansen
LCJE and Good Friends (Ecumenical Ties)
LCJE is a global but small network. What unites us, whether we are Jews or gentiles, is the commitment to share the gospel with Jewish people.
We
may sometimes be disappointed at how little importance is given to Jewish
evangelism on the agenda for Christian mission –
if mission to Jews is not downright rejected. Against such a background it
is good to see that we are not alone. We have good friends.
When I look back on the year 2008, I am pleased with the support for Jewish evangelism which has been expressed by World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). First they sponsored a full-page advertisement in the New York Times (March 28, 2009) with the headline “The Gospel and the Jewish People – An Evangelical Statement”, an advertisement which was later printed in other newspapers and Christian magazines. Next the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance brought together a theological task force on the outskirts of Berlin in August, which resulted in the statement “The Berlin Declaration on the Uniqueness of Christ and Jewish Evangelism in Europe Today.” The papers from this conference will appear, in a shortened form, in a book in 2009, edited by Dr David Parker, Executive Director of the WEA Theological Commission.
LCJE’s
president, Tuvya Zaretsky, was the coordinator of the Berlin Consultation.
The task force consisted of 13 persons. Six of these are members of LCJE,
and several of the others are well known as speakers within the framework
of LCJE.
The World Evangelical
Alliance represents approximately 420 million Evangelicals in 128 countries.
I shall hardly hurt anybody by saying that of course we do not suddenly have
420 million Evangelicals with Jewish evangelism on their daily agenda.
This is not the way things work. But I am filled with admiration that a world
movement like World Evangelical Alliance has officially given their full support
to Jewish evangelism and thereby risked their good name and reputation; and
right now, because of this support, they are being accused of promoting anti-Semitism.
| (The WEA
have also included the Roman Catholic Church from with in the WEA this
is their report [34]
"Towards an Ethical Approach to Conversion - Christian Witness in a Multi-religious World The World Evangelical Alliance, together with Pentecostals from the United States were invited by the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID), to participate in a consultation entitled "Towards an Ethical Approach to Conversion - Christian Witness in a Multi-religious World" held in Toulouse, France, 9 to 12 August 2007. Three delegates represented the WEA: Richard Howell from India, Thomas Schirrmacher from Germany and John Langlois from the UK. ") [35] On the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church by William D. Taylor, Global Ambassador, World Evangelical
Alliance |
(LCJE Responds to the WEA)
[36]
"In
LCJE we cannot very well do without such friends."
The
World Evangelical Alliance has associations with the World
Council of Churches. (Aka WCC)
WCC UPDATE: Conversion: Evangelical support for code of conduct:
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is ready to join the World Council of
Churches (WCC) and the Vatican in supporting a code of conduct to guide activities
seeking converts to Christianity.
Please Click on WCC UPDATE to read more.
(More
Ecumenical Ties)
LCJE and LCWE
Also in the Lausanne Committee
on World Evangelization (LCWE) we have good friends. As LCJE we are
part of the Lausanne “family”. The countdown has begun
to the next major international LCWE conference, which will be held in Cape
Town, South Africa, October 16-24, 2010.
Who is involved with the LCJE ?
The people involved
are as follows, [37]
Louis Goldberg, Arnold Fruchtenbaum Ariel Ministries, Moishe
Rosen, Art Glasser, Dan Juster, Stuart Dauermann, Mitch Glaser, Susan Perlman,
Michael Schiffman, Paul Cedar, Adrian Glasspole.
Members of the LCJE
To name a few: Adrian Glasspole (CMJ), Jonathan Bernis (Voice
Ministries International), Albert and Dorothy Pasche (pascheinstitute.org),
Arnold Fruchtenbaum (Ariel Ministries), David Brickner, Moishe
Rosen, Susan Perlman, Steve Wertheim (Jews for Jesus), Dr. Gary Hedrick (CJF
Ministries), David Zadok (cwi.org), Knut Høyland (Caspari Center),
Jens Arne Skjøtt (Danish Israel Mission) and Kai Kjær-Hansen,
Bob Mendelsohn, Jim Sibley, Jean-Paul Rempp, Rabbi Kirk Gliebe, Henry Morse,
Mitch Glaser and Tuvya Zaretsky
(President of LCJE International Committee).
Refs:
[1] http://www.lcje.net/about.html
[2] http://jewsforjesus.org/about/losangeles/tuvya
[3] http://www.catholicthought.com/new_page_4.htm
[4] http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=
http://www.ad2000.org/peoples/port/jpl960.htm&ei=_71 wSsbNJ-ahjAfg4b2hBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&p
rev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Jews%2Bfor%2BJesus%2522%2B%
252B%2522AD2000%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN%26start%3D50
[5] http://www.joshuaproject.net/joshua-project.php
[6] http://www.globalharvest.org/
[7] http://www.apostlesnet.net/
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Peter_Wagner
[9] http://newsletters.cephasministry.com/wimb8.html
[10] http://www.lcje.net/papers/2008/Bennett2.doc
[11] http://www.ad2000.org/gcowe95/
[12] http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-68157994.html
[13] http://www.jewsforjesus.org.au/docs/LCJEbrochure.pdf
[14] http://www.lausanne.org/lake-balaton-2007/overview.html
[15] http://www.lcje.net/papers/2002/rubin.doc
[16] http://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-connecting-point/2006-august.html
[17] http://www.lcje.net/papers/2002/rubin.doc
[18] http://www.lausanne.org/issue-jewish-people/lcje.html
[19] http://www.lausanne.org/covenant
[20] http://www.fraternas-sydney.org/
[21] http://www.marys-touch.com/truth/letter20050422.htm
[22] http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/348/Lay-Consecrated-Life/
[23] http://pms-phil.org/propagationoffaith.php
[24] http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents
/rc_synod_doc_01091997_usa-instrlabor_en.html
[25] http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-78361810.html
[26] http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/press/01/39pu.html
[27] http://www.lausanne.org/covenant
[28] http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1573&C=1522
[29] http://www.lausanne.org/covenant
[30] http://www.bigdeal.org.uk/Mobile/forums/Messages
.aspx?ThreadID=34785#feedback
[31] http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/0/054B43A
1A0A51CA0802575A5003180C4/$file/Sal
vationist%2025%20May%202002.pdf
[32] http://www.lausanne.org/issue-jewish-people/lcje.html
[33] http://lcje.net/papers/2009/Kjaer-Hansen.doc
[34] http://www.worldevangelicalalliance.com/newsletter/aug07.htm
[35] http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/article.htm?id=1355
[36] http://lcje.net/papers/2009/Kjaer-Hansen.doc
[37] http://www.lcje.net/bulletins/2009/95.pdf
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