Baptists & Methodists yoked together?
Baptists & Methodists to Focus on Mission Celebrating New Covenant Partnership Posted: Friday, February 4 , 2005, 14:45 (UK)
............On 5th February, Baptists and Independent Methodists in Britain will celebrate together their new covenant partnership that comes onto effect as the Lunar New Year begins. The partnership does not only mean a new ecumenical movement in uniting the body of Christ, but also more than anything, it is a chance for both churches to strengthen each other in order to fulfil the Great Commission.
According to the Baptist Times, the afternoon session of the gathering at Christ Church in Southport, Merseyside will focus on the theme about mission in the real world while the actual celebration will take place in the evening.
Rena Scholes, Overseas Secretary for the Independent Methodist Connexion (IMC), the Revd Dr Alistair Brown, General Director of BMS World Mission, and Fiona Bruce, a member of Stockton Heath Christian Fellowship, and Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Warrington South, are invited to contribute in the mission seminar.
The covenant partnership was confirmed last year by Baptist and IM meetings. It was signed at the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Church Representatives’ Meeting last November. At that point, IM churches became provisional Union churches, joint members of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB), the relevant Baptist Associations and the IMC. ........................
some notes on this article, the believer is to separate from apostate doctrine and those who embrace all in the name of unity to the expense of doctrinal purity.
Here is what the Word of God has to say about it.
1. AVOID THEM (Romans 16:17).
2. REJECT (Titus 3:10).
3. RECEIVE HIM NOT (2 John 10).
4. FROM SUCH TURN AWAY (2 Timothy 3:5).
[Compare 2 Timothy 3:5 with Romans 1:16 and 1 Corinthians 1:24. It involves a denial of the gospel.]
5. LET HIM BE ACCURSED (Gal. 1:8-9).
............On 5th February, Baptists and Independent Methodists in Britain will celebrate together their new covenant partnership that comes onto effect as the Lunar New Year begins. The partnership does not only mean a new ecumenical movement in uniting the body of Christ, but also more than anything, it is a chance for both churches to strengthen each other in order to fulfil the Great Commission.
According to the Baptist Times, the afternoon session of the gathering at Christ Church in Southport, Merseyside will focus on the theme about mission in the real world while the actual celebration will take place in the evening.
Rena Scholes, Overseas Secretary for the Independent Methodist Connexion (IMC), the Revd Dr Alistair Brown, General Director of BMS World Mission, and Fiona Bruce, a member of Stockton Heath Christian Fellowship, and Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Warrington South, are invited to contribute in the mission seminar.
The covenant partnership was confirmed last year by Baptist and IM meetings. It was signed at the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Church Representatives’ Meeting last November. At that point, IM churches became provisional Union churches, joint members of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB), the relevant Baptist Associations and the IMC. ........................
some notes on this article, the believer is to separate from apostate doctrine and those who embrace all in the name of unity to the expense of doctrinal purity.
Here is what the Word of God has to say about it.
1. AVOID THEM (Romans 16:17).
2. REJECT (Titus 3:10).
3. RECEIVE HIM NOT (2 John 10).
4. FROM SUCH TURN AWAY (2 Timothy 3:5).
[Compare 2 Timothy 3:5 with Romans 1:16 and 1 Corinthians 1:24. It involves a denial of the gospel.]
5. LET HIM BE ACCURSED (Gal. 1:8-9).
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