Should Catholics and Evangelicals Join Ranks?
Kenneth S. Kantzer | posted 7/18/1994 12:00AM
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Justification by faith alone is central in that it represents the biblical focus, and it is the point of entrance for all other aspects of Christian life and experience.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, when the document calls evangelicals and Catholics to "witness together." Attempts by evangelicals to win "converts" from Catholics (or vice versa) is to "undermine the Christian mission."
Few evangelicals doubt that many Catholics today are true and godly believers in Christ. They are, indeed, evangelicals; but by ignoring the contrary teachings of their own church, they are inconsistent evangelicals.
Yet, because evangelicals acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord of their thought and life, they cannot do otherwise than to seek to win everyone everywhere, whether they be Catholics, Jews, Mormons, or secularists (or those who call themselves evangelical), to the biblical gospel that promises salvation by God's free grace through simple faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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