The World Council of Churches (WCC) is up to its usual shenanigans. I had to look twice, though, when I read this wording from a Baptist Press news report from the Assembly:
Wisdom said that moving forward, the WCC is facing issues of survival, not just relevance.In America and elsewhere, mainline denominations continue to suffer in influence while orthodoxy is growing; if the WCC persists in trying to rally churches around the agenda of western liberals instead of around biblical orthodoxy, it faces the prospect of extinction, he said.”The question is where the WCC will find any unity,” Wisdom said. “The continued pursuit of the political agendas of the Western left–a rapidly declining contingent in the global church–will relegate the council to accelerating irrelevance. But a reappropriation of the orthodox and evangelical Christian faith that is growing in so many African, Asian and Latin American churches would promise a much brighter future.”Wisdom did not speculate on whether the WCC had the will to abandon liberalism and ecumenicalism for the evangelicalism that is driving Christian movements worldwide.
It turns out “Wisdom” is identified above in the article as Alan Wisdom, interim president of the Institute for Religion and Democracy (IRD), who was reporting from the Assembly.
For a moment, I wondered whether or not it actually might be a good thing for the WCC assembly-goers to listen to Sophia.
