Rick Warren, the former pastor of one of the largest former Southern Baptist churches in history, is now joining Catholics on Catholic television stations to lecture us on unity.
In a recent interview, Warren tells EWTN that Jesus’ high priestly prayer in John 17 is “unanswered” because Catholics—who hold to a gospel of faith plus works—are not united with Protestants and Evangelicals.
“There are 2.5 billion people in the world who claim to believe in Jesus Christ,” Warren said. “Now, that doesn’t mean that they are walking with Him, they’re working with Him on a regular basis. But if you were to say, do you believe in the Trinity? Father, Son, Holy Spirit? Oh yeah. Do you believe Jesus is who He said He was? The Son of God? Yes.”
“Do you believe He died on the cross for our sins and rose again? Yes. Do you believe He sent the Holy Spirit to start the church? Yes. Well, you’re not a Muslim, you’re not a Hindu, you’re not a Buddhist.”
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“Of the 2.5 billion people who follow Jesus in the world, they’re not Muslims,” he continued. “Okay, 1.3 billion are Catholic. Okay, so it’s an enormous, it’s about half of the Christian Church are Catholic. And so, this is what I call the sleeping giant.”
Warren then goes on to argue that even though Protestants and Catholics will never be united on doctrine, they are still brothers and sisters in Christ and should pray together, fellowship together, and join hands together in unity.
But what Warren, like so many of his empty-minded kind fail to understand, is that while Catholics may say they believe in these things, in practice and in definition, they are completely different. Catholics may say they believe Christ died on the cross for our sins, but to them, that simply means that Christ made it possible for them to earn their salvation through good works—something the Scriptures clearly teach is a damnable belief.
Rick Warren says he was blessed by EWTN and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy—which includes Hail Mary prayers—when his son took his own life 12 years ago.
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