[smvoice]

"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness: God is witness:" 1 Thess. 2:4,5.

The Second Vatican Council stated that the goal of the Church's ecumenical STRATEGY was the UNITY of ALL Christian churches through COMMUNION with the Roman Catholic Church:

"The results will be that, little by little, as the obstacles to perfefct ecclesiastical communion are OVERCOME, all Christians will be gathered, in a COMMON CELEBRATION of THE EUCHARIST, into the UNITY of the ONE AND ONLY CHURCH, which Christ bestowed on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can NEVER LOSE, and we hope that it will continue to INCREASE until the end of time." - Second Vatican Council, "Decree on Ecumenism," no. 4.

[bkaycee]

Kind of odd that the Pope would be against the spread of salvation through Jesus.

People who have been truly regenerated and converted through the preaching of the Gospel tend to want to tell others about what God has done for them. Is that surprising? They have believed and God has saved them through the simplicity of the Gospel of Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ alone.

The remedy for the shallowness of some of these Babes in Christ is the strong meat of the Word of God that requires hard work, not formal institutions that wear the same clothes.

If Rome and the other main stream protestant churches would teach the True Good news, they would stop hemorrhaging members and start making the tares uncomfortable.