The first article in a three-part look at a serious hindrance to evangelical unity . . .
Earlier this year, a booklet was issued with the title Bible Churches Together - A Plea for True Ecumenism(1). It had three related aims: to clarify the position of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches with regard to the ecumenical movement, to provide some background information about the new network called Essentially Evangelical and to urge greater co-operation between all churches that were genuinely submissive to the authority of the Bible.
Predictably, the booklet met with a storm of protest from a magazine that represents one constituency within British evangelicalism(2). It claimed that, 'the old clarity and rugged determination to maintain biblical separation (within FIEC) is now being undermined by ministers who have turned away from the founding principles' and 'historical revisionism' is being employed to disguise the process.
