Pray
for Chuck Colson Pray for Chuck Colson
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Never liked Chuck's ecumenical agenda. He preached another gospel."
That's right (Ga 5:9).
See:
Irreconcilable Differences: Catholics, Evangelicals, and the New Quest for
Unity, Parts 1-3 Grace to You
[Proclaiming
the Gospel Ministries Catalyst for Reversing the Reformation Dies] "With the
recent death of Chuck Colson, we must wait and see if the movement within
evangelical Christianity to reverse the reformation will continue under new
leadership. Colson was the co-author of the Evangelicals and Catholics Together
unity accords in the 1990's and the Manhattan Declaration in 2009. The documents
falsely convinced many evangelicals that Catholicism is a valid expression of
biblical Christianity. Chuck Colson's unity accords were written in open
defiance to the authority of God's Word and the biblical command to earnestly
contend for the faith against false teachers. He ordered evangelicals not to
evangelize or proselytize Roman Catholics because they already share a common
faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. After his meeting with Pope John Paul II in
1995, Colson declared the pope to be a great defender of Christian orthodoxy. In
1998 Roman Catholic
Michael Timmis was named chairman of Colson's Prison Fellowship. Later it was
reported that over 60 percent of Prison Fellowship chaplains were Roman
Catholic. In his forward to the book Evangelical Catholics, by Roman Catholic
author Keith Fournier, Colson wrote, "It's time that all of us who are
Christians come together regardless of the difference of our confessions and our
traditions." Colson also endorsed the book Ecumenical Jihad by Peter Kreeft
which urges ecumenical union with Islam. A balanced assessment of Colson's
legacy written by Tim Challies can be seen
here."
Also see:
Irreconcilable Differences: Catholics, Evangelicals, and the New Quest for
Unity, Parts 1-3 Grace to You