13Enter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:
14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:13-14 (King James Bible)
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:
14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:13-14 (King James Bible)
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14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (King James Bible)OUR DAILY BREAD, ROME, AND ECUMENISM
(Friday Church News Notes, October 22, 2010, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)
Our Daily Bread, a popular daily devotional, is promoting Romanism and Ecumenism. The September-October 2010 issue has positive references to Catholic priest Henri Nouwen (September 27) and to Franciscan Michael St. Jacques and his Roman habit (October 13).
Nouwen is called a “writer” by Our Daily Bread, but what is not said is that he was a Catholic priest that believed that men can be saved apart from faith in Christ and a promoter of the most dangerous forms of Catholic contemplation.
He recommend Thomas Merton, who was both Catholic and Buddhist, and in his foreword to Thomas Ryan’s book Disciples for Christian Living, Nouwen said, “The author shows a wonderful openness to the gifts of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Moslem religion.”
Henri Nouwen’s writings were one of the influences that led popular writer Sue Monk Kidd from Southern Baptist to Catholic contemplation to goddess worship. She testified of this in her foreword to Nouwen’s book With Open Hands.
This is not the first time that Our Daily Bread has promoted Nouwen. The June 6, 2006, entry was built around Nouwen’s book The Return of the Prodigal Son. (For more about Nouwen see Contemplative Mysticism, which is available in print and e-book formats from Way of Life Literature.)
The latest edition of Our Daily Bread also has a positive reference to World Communion Sunday on October 3. World Communion Sunday originated in the Presbyterian Church in 1936 and was expanded by the exceedingly liberal Federal Council of Churches in the 1940s. It was promoted heavily by modernist Jesse Bader, who headed up the FCC’s mis-named Department of Evangelism.
Today the emphasis of World Communion Sunday is ecumenical unity across denominational lines, which is a popular feel-good thing today, but pan-denominational unity is open disobedience to the Bible’s command to contend for the truth against error (Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.) and to separate from heretics (Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.).
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