1994 – Resolution on Catholic – Evangelical Pact

WHEREAS Ecumenicism continues to be advanced by both the National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches, causing Baptists and Protestants to be drawn into the Roman Catholic fold; and

WHEREAS Evangelicalism and Neo-Evangelicalism increasingly undermine the authority and trustworthiness of Scripture and its mandate to separate from compromising brethren as well as apostates; and

WHEREAS representatives of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Southern Baptist Convention, Campus Crusade, Christian Coalition and International Prison Fellowship, including Pat Robertson, Chuck Colson, John White (N.A.E.), Richard Land (S.B.C.), as well as Roman Catholic representatives such as Archbishop Francis Stafford, Bishop Carlos Sevilla, and Fr. Richard Neuhaus have signed Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millenium, whereby all parties acknowledge each other as Christians and agree not to proselytize from each other’s congregations; and

WHEREAS the signers of this pact agree that “As evangelicals and Catholics we dare not by needless and loveless conflict between ourselves give aid and comfort to the enemies of the cause of Christ” thereby, accusing Bible-believing separatists of being the enemies of “… the cause of Christ.”

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we, the members of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America, meeting in conference at Merrillville, Ind., June 21-23, 1994, do hereby denounce this pact and the Ecumenicism it represents as an unholy alliance clearly condemned by the Word of God.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we serve notice to our brethren in the Gospel ministry and to the people in our churches that this is a dangerous attack upon the Bible, our churches and people by those who portray themselves as brethren and friends, who are in fact ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing who are deceiving God’s people.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we warn everyone that Evangelicalism and so-called Neo-Evangelicalism are the carriers of the plague of Apostasy now infecting fundamentalism around the world. Furthermore, that many familiar terms, including “Evangelical” and ‘Evangelicalism” have been perverted from their original definitions to deceive Christians as well as unbelievers into broader acceptance of these teachers and doctrines.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that we condemn any endorsement of the Roman Catholic Church as Christian, either in doctrine or practice. No church can be genuinely Christian which does not first accept Scripture as its final authority for faith and practice.