Title: New Evangelical Theology (4)
Content br> The leaders of New Evangelicalism emphasize the former and oppose the latter, paying attention to the issues of maintaining and separating the church. As Akenge declared at the end of 1957 in the definition of difference with new evangelicalism, the new evangelical strategy is to infiltrate, not separate. Therefore, the members of NAE, the power organization of New Evangelicalism, are making compromised efforts to personally revive their faith under the liberal church politics while staying in the theologically corrupted old denominations.
At the same time, the New Evangelicals vehemently denounce the departure of fundamentalists from the degenerate old denominations to revive the old beliefs as an act of separatism.
Carnell attacked the great leader of Fundamentalism, Dr. JG Machen, of sowing the seeds of anarchy by not properly respecting the doctrines of the Church and promoting church division without justifiable grounds (EJ Carnell, op. cit. pp. 114). -117). But
Cannell's views were particularly heavily attacked by neo-fundamentalism (Charles Woodbride, loc op. cit. pp. 88-91) and the Calvinist camp (C. VanTil, The New Evangelicalism, pp. 10-12).
Calvin believed that the corrupted church is getting richer and more powerful, while the true tangible church has already departed from its base of corruption and, even if it is only a small number, can truly witness the gospel and continue its original life in the midst of suffering. .(De Scandalis, pp. 121, 122). As John T. McNeill points out in his book, "Calvin had no intention of sacrificing truth for the sake of peace, and in this regard Calvin's doctrine was sharper than that of other reformers." He is more faithful to the truth than to peace, and is a remarkable reformer (A
History if the Ecumenical Movement, ed. Ruth Rause, S.P. C. K, London, 1954, p. 5).
All Protestant Reformed churches acknowledge the legitimacy of church separation and express this in the word "church freedom." From the poem where the religious revolution took place, schism and disruption followed. Calvin recognized the legitimacy of such a dispute by calling it a “fresh conflict.”
Leaving the original church cannot be taken lightly, but in the worst case, it is impossible to keep the right faith in it, and separation is unavoidable.
17. Ecumenical Movement towards Church Unification
Akenge's so-called infiltration strategy, which has already been cited several times in the text, would be to insist on unity toward the unification of the church.
Erikson pointed out the way for New Evangelicalism to lead to unification, which is greatly needed among Christians, and NAE is one of the factors for unification, and the Berlin Evangelism Conference in 1966 is like that. I am in favor of evangelicals staying in groups like the NCC for dialogue with non-evangelicals, and I appreciate the recent dialogue between Catholics and Protestants.
New evangelicals criticize the WCC's embracism and tolerance, and at the same time condemn the ICCC's exclusivism and narrowness (Millard Erickson, op. cit, pp. 41-43). And the New Evangelical public opinion has a theological dialogue with liberals (without compromise), an attempt to define biblical ecumenicalism (ecumenicalism), an evangelical critique of the current ecumenical movement, and a deep plan for evangelical cooperation. (Ronald Nash, op. cot. pp.102-105) In addition to this, the New Evangelicals
Practically advance the ecumenical movement.
18. Ecumenical Movement through NAE
NAE (National Association of Evangelicals) is the name of the branches of the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) in the United States and other countries. This NAE is an ecumenical movement centered on New Evangelicals, and it is an international alliance that maintains the right faith individually while staying within the denominations belonging to the WCC.
Harold John Ockenga, who claims to be the creator of the title "New Evangelicalism" or the father of New Evangelicalism, was the first president of the NAE organized in 1942 and gave a keynote speech at the first plenary session. Before the New Evangelicals appeared under the name of "New Evangelical", NAE was organized, and thus NAE is a cooperative organization that originated from the New Evangelical movement. Akenge's first mention of NAE in a document published at the end of 1957, citing the power mechanism of New Evangelicalism, makes this fact even clearer.
However, NAE's policy is not to criticize liberalism as it is a passive thing, but to move forward with active work. Therefore, this organization is actively proclaiming the new evangelical new ideology, which is its origin, while ignoring the liberal ideology of the WCC or NCC. In the end, “NAE has been the voice of compromise (liberalism). These are the voices of those walking down the middle route.” NAE included ardent leaders of the WCC ecumenical movement in its meeting sequence.
(Chtistian Beacon, May 9, 1968), the university visited by NAE leaders becomes a gathering place for socialist intellectuals, communist frontline fighters, communist collaborators, and "one world liberals". Wilhelm E. Schmitt. Steps Toward Apostasy at Wheaton College). The NAE's ecumenical movement is, after all, a friendly affair with the WCC, communism, and other radical New Thought movements.
The group's public statement, United Evangelical Action, is an excellent source of reporting on the religious world and ecumenical events. NAE claims to have over 2 million members, many of them belonging to churches connected to WCC Ecumenical Ondong. NAE also has a wide range of activities including schools, missionary work, and other outreach agencies.
is going However, it is the new gospel that departs from the original evangelicalism. When the NAE Evangelism Committee conducted the revival movement, it initially hired conservative revivalists, but later supported the revival work of the new evangelical Billy Gram.
19. Ecumenical Movement through Billy Gram
The ecumenical movement of Billy Gram, the spokesman for New Evangelicalism, with the public takes many forms. In various types of movements, he always focuses on tolerance and goodwill for these ideas, such as rejection of fundamentalism, liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and communism.
1) Evangelistic cooperation with ideal organizations. Billygram's evangelism ministry is "cooperative evangelism". Gram's early evangelism method followed the biblical principles of predecessors such as Moody, Tory, Sunday, and L.D. Moody, R.A. Torrey, Sunday, and Bob Jones. His evangelistic meetings were organized by conservatives and not supported by liberals. However, in later years, his evangelism method changed greatly and became “cooperative evangelism” in cooperation with liberals.
Billy Gram does not respond to the invitations of conservative churches alone for urban revival evangelism meetings, but only co-hosts liberal churches. And they put liberals on the pulpit of the revival evangelism meeting and introduce them with great praise.
In Japan, England, Scotland, and several cities in the United States, revival evangelism meetings all took this method. Gram's revival evangelism rallies received wide support and resulted in the expansion of the liberal church.
A revival evangelism rally hosted by the New York City Liberal Protestant Council in 1954 was brought to the committee by about 120 liberals and non-believers and about 20 conservatives, and was financed by three groups of Roman Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. The church that received the most credit cards at the meeting was that of the liberal Norman Vincent Peale.
Before Gram's New York meeting, the number of churches working with the Protestant Council was 1,700, but after that there were more than 3,000, and several conservative churches said they had an internal backlash as a result of the meeting.
Billygram also came to Korea several times to lead revival evangelism meetings, but each time, liberal denominations hosted it, and conservative denominations did not participate. And I have never heard of a revival in quantity or quality as a result of his meetings.
did.
2) Friendship with the WCC Ecumenical Movement Billygram is a leader of New Evangelicalism, driving his flock to the WCC ecumenical pen. He propagated that there was only one short step from the civil box arena to the ecumenical pulpit of the world church. At a WCC meeting (summer meeting of Inter-Church Aid, Refuge and World Service) gathered in London, England in 1966, he said, "I am a person with an evangelical message and an ecumenical heart." He is calm in his relationship with the churches of He was 1961
He said that he participated in the 3rd WCC General Assembly in New Delhi in 1968, and that he would have the privilege of going to the 4th General Assembly to gather in Uppsala, Sweden in 1968. In fact, Gram has been associated with almost all of its meetings since the inception of the WCC movement.
Billy Gram, as a distinguished spokesperson for the NCC General Assembly in Miami, Florida, in December 1966, commented, saying, "I am prepared to help the NCC by building a bridge between the New Evangelicals and the ecumenical camp." did. The example he used to describe the second conversion he even said that one requires two conversions was the march in Selma. According to him, the march was a display of true Christian devotion, and it was Dr. Martin Luther King, who foreshadowed God's divine love (agape). Gram is indeed a person who has lost his marriage to the ecumenical movements of the WCC and NCC's liberalism and social evangelicalism.
In imitation of the WCC's broad inclusion policy, Billygram is friendly not only with liberals, but also with Roman Catholics and communism. He invites representatives of Communist churches to world evangelism conferences, does not invite fundamentalists to oppose communism, and does not hesitate to speak in favor of communism.
Billygram said during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on his way back from writing a revival evangelism meeting in Seoul, Korea in late May-early June 1973, “Mao Zedong’s eight lessons are basically the same as the Ten Commandments. In fact, if we are unable to get the Ten Commandments to be read in our schools, I will decide for mock lessons” (The English Mainichi Daily News for May 29th carried a report of this interview and Qusted Billy Graham directly).
3) World Congress on Evangelism is a concrete action of Billygram's ecumenical movement.
(1) The Berlin World Evangelism Conference (October 26 - November 4, 1966) was a very large meeting of New Evangelicalism. It was hosted and hosted by Carl Henry, the leader of New Evangelicalism, as chairman and Billy Gram as the honorary chairman. About 1,300 delegates gathered, including the WCC and NCC and various liberal forces along with the New Evangelicals, and excluded fundamentalists and opponents of communism.