Jews Need Jesus; Africans…Purpose!

April 1, 2008 in Church in America
Tags: Africa, evangelism, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jews for Jesus, Purpose Driven, Rick Warren, salvation

Friends,

I’m not going to say much about this. I just happen to find it profoundly ironic.

Christian Post has two stories on its front page. The link-lines appear in the following order and with the following words:

Rick Warren Launches ‘Purpose Driven’ Plan in Uganda

Evangelical Leaders: Jews Need Jesus Christ

So, Jews need Jesus, but Africans need Purpose! That’s a helpful way of looking at things; it simplifies matters.

Concerning the latter article:

The statement, sponsored by the World Evangelical Alliance, expressed friendship and love for the Jewish people, but unapologetically declared that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ.

“We want to make it clear that, as evangelical Christians, we do not wish to offend our Jewish friends by the above statements; but we are compelled by our faith and commitment to the Scriptures to stand by these principles,” read the evangelical statement on “The Gospel and the Jewish People.”

Concerning the former article:

Churches, business and government leaders gathered Friday and Saturday to listen to the best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life explain how to live a life of purpose and make a difference in the world.

“Our hope and prayer is that lives will be transformed and churches will be strengthened,” Warren said in Uganda, according to the program’s publicity team.

“My message to individuals is to build your life on purpose, instead of prestige, possessions or pleasure. My challenge to churches is to cooperate, not compete,” said he added, “and my challenge to business and government leaders is to use their influence for the glory of God and partner with local churches in solving community problems.”

For all those Africans: Not one mention of Jesus in the article. Not one. At this point, I think I have greater hope that the Jewish people will be saved than I do the Africans.

Sadly,

jerry

PS–The following is a list of those who affirm that Jews need Jesus (how does Chuck Colson get his name on every document produced by the church?):

Evangelical Christian leaders who affirmed the statement include the Rev. Dr. Lon Allison, director of the Billy Graham Center; Dr. Mark Bailey, president of Dallas Theological Seminary; Doug Birdsall, executive chair of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; Dr. Yonggi Cho, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea; Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship; Dr. Jerry B. Jenkins, owner of Christian Writers Guild; Dr. Haddon Robinson, president of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary; Gordon Showell-Rogers, general secretary of European Evangelical Alliance; and Dr. Lon Solomon, pastor of McLean Bible Church in McLean, Va., who is Jewish.