You need to read this article. It is a great piece much in line with something I wrote a while back.
Click here for my article on Glenn Beck
Click on the link below to read this whole article. Only an excerpt is quoted below.
Following Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny or God’s Word
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This event is clearly a spiritual event with Glenn declaring on a video on his website that the hymn Eternal Father Strong to Save “is the message of 8/27”. The problem is that as a Mormon, Glenn’s definition of God the Father is not the same as that described by Jesus Christ Himself in the Bible. Glenn says, “I have been reaching out to the biggest names in faith for the last year…I have met with the biggest leaders of faith in the country privately and I have asked them to help me put differences aside and to reach out with one another so we can remind people to get down on their knees for our brethren’s shield in our dangerous hour.”
Christians that want to be committed to Biblical truth cannot “put aside” the cross and Gospel of Jesus Christ nor the supremacy of Scripture by spiritually uniting with those that proclaim another Jesus, another gospel and declare the cross foolishness.
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Phil,
A few problems as I see them:
1) Religious leaders for years have taken part in rallies to effect political change. What happened on Saturday was in that same line of tradition. Dr. King marched for civil rights, but he wasn’t trying to imprint on the rest of America the need to be a fundamentalist Baptist. Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, Conservative Protestants have marched for years in the streets demanding an end to the heinous act of women terminating their pregnancies for the sake of convenience, but none of the leaders or laity of those Christian confessions sought also the need to make Protestants Orthodox or Catholics Protestant. Same thing here. Glenn Beck’s appeal on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial is not a call for us to embrace Mormonism as the Gospel. Nor was the case when Mitt Romney ran for President.
2) If you’re going to take this to logical extremes, then you, as an LCMS pastor, should do everything possible to never ever cooperate or even talk with ELCA pastors or laity because of their distortion, if not perversion, of the Gospel. I’m not saying you should commune with them or be an ecumenist (something I’m certainly not), but where does it end?
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