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Review
Newsletter is a
compilation of the news articles that have appeared
on the Understand The Times website during the
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March 26 - Lutherans Stress Full Communion Over 'Lutheran-Centric' Body
Article: Ecumenical Movement - Protestants Uniting With Roman Catholics
Around the theme "Living in
Communion in the World Today",
LWF President Bishop Mark S Hanson
highlighted the shift in focus from living as
Lutherans to living in the
world, including a greater
emphasis on ecumenical relationships.
Last summer, Noko
had joined Methodists and Roman
Catholics in Seoul, South Korea, to sign a
historical agreement on
justification. The unprecedented move
opened doors for future
ecumenical relationships and a "full
visible unity in faith", as
Pope Benedict XVI called it, according to
Cardinal Walter Kasper.
While the Lutheran
body looks towards a new stage in
ecumenical participation with world
communions, Hanson noted that living a
full communion relationship would not be
easy. It would mean challenging old
assumptions, listening to one another,
and becoming accountable to others
with different angles of vision with different
insights, blind spots,
strengths and temptation, he
said.
Despite the challenges, Hanson stressed the
benefits of full communion.
"Together
we can discover how to speak the Gospel
more truly. Together we can challenge
each other to engage in God's mission
more courageously. Together through the
eyes of others we will begin to see
ourselves more clearly, even
critically."
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NEWS ALERT - Jimmy Carter On Christianity
Article: Apostasy
Comment from
Understand The Times
Former President Jimmy Carter will be
one of the main speakers at Willow
Creek, Leadership Summit, August 9-11,
2007. Below, please find two articles
previously posted at Understand The
Times about Jimmy Carter. Carter and his
ecumenical and unbiblical views are
becoming increasingly more popular among
leaders that once would have been
considered promoters of the gospel
according to the scriptures. The New One
World Religion Faith Based Social
gospel that is being widely promoted by
the Emerging Church and Purpose
Driven movements seems to be
gaining momentum. As well, more and more are
oblivious to the fact that is
happening.
Jimmy Carter -
Speaker at Willow Creek, August 9-11,
2007
Other
articles:
January 9 - 2007 Carter, Clinton Join to
Reshape Baptist Image
Former Presidents
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are
part of an initiative to create a new Baptist
voice and improve the negative
image of Baptists in North
America.
March 21 - Jimmy Carter's
Bible Class
NEWSWEEK's Lisa Miller spoke with
Carter about his vision of God, the power
of the religious right, and what he's
learned from the controversy over his
recent book, "Palestine Peace Not
Apartheid." Excerpts:
A new book, "Religious Literacy,"
by
Stephen Prothero, argues that
religion should be taught in public
schools. Do you agree?
Carter: I wouldn't have any
aversion to
that. To teach a comparative
religions course, to compare Christianity
with Judaism and Islam and
Hinduism and so forth, would be constructive.
It would show that there is a
compatibility among them all. I can't
claim to be a scholar, but
when our hostages were being held by Iran
when I was president, I read
the Quran, and I had Islamic scholars come
and talk to me. The basic
human-behavior principles were the same. The
Islamic Bible, the Quran,
teaches peace and justice and care for one's
neighbor and helping the poor.
I would not be in favor of public schools
endorsing
Christianity.
Do you think a Mormon is a
Christian?
Carter: Yes, I do. I have a
cousin who is a
Mormon and she married one
of the Marriott family. I don't know anyone
who's more devout in their faith
than she and her family. I admire them
very much.
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March 28 - Bishops defend Catholic Church from false teachings, pope says
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
The teaching of the bishops
and unity with the pope
guarantee that one's faith truly is the faith
taught by Jesus to his
apostles, Pope Benedict XVI said.
"The true gospel is that
imparted by the bishops, who
have received it in an uninterrupted chain
from the apostles," the
pope said March 28 at his weekly general
audience. "The publicly
confessed faith of the church is the faith
common to all," he said,
and "only this faith is apostolic. It comes
from the apostles and
therefore from Jesus and from God."
All the churches must be in
accord with the church of
Rome, recognizing in it the standard of the
true apostolic tradition, of the
one, common faith of the church."
"Where there is the
church,
there is the spirit of God and
where there is the spirit of God there is
the church and every
grace," the pope said.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
In Jesus,
Roger Oakland
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