2001 – Resolution Regarding The Drift of Error

Whereas the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has been, since its inception, the voice of ungodly compromise with theological error by repudiating Biblical separation by fellowshipping with unbelievers, having been led down a broadening road of compromise by Billy Graham, Wheaton College (IL), Fuller Theological Seminary, Christianity Today, et aI., and

Whereas many prominent “Evangelical” leaders have signed with Roman Catholics the unbiblical Evangelical and Catholics Together (I & II), and

Whereas the NAE has recently begun accepting membership of groups in membership with the National Council of Churches (NCC), causing even the compromising National Religious Broadcasters to separate from the NAE, and

Whereas the National Council of Churches has been, since its inception, the voice of liberalism and apostasy in America, representing the worst of American Protestant Christianity by leading their churches back to Rome, and

Whereas the NAE and the NCC are taking steps to form a new, broad-based ecumenical body which would not only formally unite these two organizations but also include other denominations such as the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on social and economic justice rather than “divisive” theological issues,

Be it therefore resolved that, we the members attending the annual conference of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America, June 19-21, 2001, in Williamsburg, VA, do hereby reject the position of sin, compromise and error of the NAE and the NCC, and

Be it further resolved that we repudiate the NAE and NCC in their departure from the Scriptures which alone “are able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (II Tim. 3:15), ignoring the God-placed line dividing truth and error, and abandon the true Gospel of grace which the “power of God unto salvation” (Rom. 1:16) for a social gospel based upon good works, and

Be it further resolved that we warn and admonish any true believers in those churches, denominations or organizations to heed the instruction of Scripture to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but, rather, reprove them” (Eph. 5:11), to “not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (II Cor. 6:14) and to “come out from among them, and be ye separate” (II Cor. 6:17), and Be it finally resolved that we encourage our brethren to be “steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord (I Cor. 15:58).