Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which causedivisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yehave learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:for what fellowship hath righteousness withunrighteousness? and what communion hath light withdarkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? orwhat part hath he that believeth with an infidel? Andwhat agreement hath the temple of God with idols? forye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, Iwill dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be theirGod, and they shall be my people” (2 Corinthians6:14-16).“Having a form of godliness, but denying the powerthereof: from such turn away” (2 Timothy 3:5).Warren also warned that Baptists often are “known forwhat we’re against rather than what we’re for.”In his opinion, that is wrong, but it isn’t wrong whenmeasured biblically. The Lord Jesus Christ frequentlypreached red-hot messages on Hell, and He was known forHis opposition to the Sadducees and Pharisees, thetheological liberals and Catholic priests of His day. Theapostle Paul, following in His Master’s footsteps, also spentmuch of his time preaching against sin and error, both in thebook of Acts and in his epistles.The Baptist World Alliance is an ecumenical alliance of211 Baptist denominations in more than 140 countries. It ispermeated with theological liberalism and supports new ageone-world organizations such as the United Nations (UN).As far back as the 1930s, the Baptist World Alliance was ahotbed of modernism. When J. Frank Norris led the TempleBaptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, to withdraw from theBWA in 1935, he cited its “modernistic dominatedleadership” as a reason (The F. Frank Norris I Have Known64