Europe: "Sliding Back to Barbaric Times"
EUROPE CUTS ITSELF OFF FROM CHRISTIAN ROOTS
Ecumenical Confessing
Convention Calls For Re-Evangelization
By Wolfgang
Polzer
FREUDENSTADT (ANS) -- Europe
is cutting itself off from its Christian roots. This has resulted in a
continuing moral and spiritual decline. Conservative Christians from
different churches and denominations have deplored the lack of
Christian charity, the break-up of families and declining birth rates
in Europe.
Widespread tax fraud, homosexual practices and increasing numbers of
abortions are also indications of a cultural and moral decline,
declared 150 participants from eight nations at the first Ecumenical
Confessing Convention.
The consultation took place in Freudenstadt, Germany, October 13 – 15,
and was jointly organized by the evangelical International Conference
of Confessing Fellowships and the Roman Catholic Gustav Siewert
Academy. Under the leadership of German missiologist Professor Peter
Beyerhaus participants issued a Freudenstadt Declaration.
They warned against a massive influx of radical Islamic movements
intent on establishing a dictatorial theocracy. Only a return to
Europe’s spiritual roots, especially the Christian faith, could prevent
the continent from sliding back to barbaric times.
According to the conference Europeans are too reluctant to put up
resistance against such tendencies. The Christian faith was losing its
public relevance. Many politicians refused to exercise their office in
responsibility before God.
The future European constitution was lacking in this very respect. It
needed a re-draught with a reference to God along the lines of the
Polish and the German constitution.
The conference also called for renewed efforts to re-evangelize the
continent. The “true followers of Jesus” from all confessions and
denominations should unite in a new “confessing ecumenical movement”.
Wolfgang Polzer (54), is senior news
editor of the Evangelical News Agency idea, Wetzlar (Germany), which he
joined in 1981. His previous work included four years in the editorial
department of the Salvation Army in Germany. In all, he has spent 27
years in Christian media. Wolfgang can be contacted by e-mail at: Wolfgang.Polzer@idea.de.
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Tuesday,
October 26, 2004
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