A SPECIAL NOTICE

 

The Director of Watchman Fellowship is on the Board

of Directors of EMNR. For additional information see the membership list of EMNR below. To become a member one has to sign off on the Lausanne Movement.

 

Source: EMNR Website: In 1982, EMNR was formed to become "a consortium of Christians in North America, seeking to help people distinguish authentic from in-authentic Christianity and strengthen evangelical Christian ministries to new religionists and cultists." The founders of EMNR adopted the Lausanne Covenant as the governing document which would apply to both member organizations and individuals.

EMNR was born in an effort to practically implement Affirmation 7 of the Lausanne Covenant: "We urge the development of regional and functional cooperation for the furtherance of the Church’s mission, for strategic planning, for mutual encouragement, and for the sharing of resources and experience."

 

[Note: The Lausanne Covenent is a strategy to solve social problems which is rooted in "WORKS". Proselytizing will be against the law with the passage of the "Charitable Choice" Law upon which the faithbased federal funding is based.]

 

"Though EMNR was conceived as an umbrella group for ministries to the cults and new religions, our founders and current board members have no wish for EMNR to assume a magisterial role, nor to become a closed guild which might diminish the validity of other ministries who are not part of EMNR ...

 

[NOTE: We hope not, because Jesus said the following:

 

Jesus addressing the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus:

"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And I said,"Who art thou, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." (Acts 26:..14-18)

 

Jesus said: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me..."If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." (John 15:1-4,6)

 

We hope that EMNR will not apprehend the "Work of the Holy Spirit" who lives in each born again believer, but EMNR advocates that we should abide in EMNR instead of the vine and follow Jesus's admonition: "It is written again, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (the Holy Bible, KJV). (Matthew 4:4)]

Several purposes of EMNR are:

1. Encourage mutual understanding and cooperation
2. among evangelical Christian agencies. 
3. Provide centralized storage of reliable and relevant information for pre-evangelism, evangelism, and rehabilitation of people from nonevangelical
4. worldviews and ways of life. 
5. Recommend to the public, churches, and schools
6. those agencies and materials which meet these
7. standards and may help as a protective to
8. involvement with a non-Christian or inauthentically Christian religious movement.  
9. [Note: We believe there is only one centralized storage of reliable and relevant information to set people free and that is the Holy Bible (KJV) which is accessable to most all homes on this planet today.]

Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization " is an example of a website advocating it.

THE MANILA MANIFESTO

The Manila Manifesto is an elaboration of

The Lausanne Covenant fifteen years later. The participants in Lausanne II, the Second International Congress on World Evangelization, in Manila in the Philippines in July 1989

deliberated on the prospects for the fulfillment of the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

16. We affirm that every Christian congregation must turn

itself outward to its local community in evangelistic witness

and compassionate service.

 

17. We affirm the urgent need for churches, mission agencies

and other Christian organizations to cooperate in

evangelism and social action, repudiating competition

and avoiding duplication.

 

We are called today to a similar integration of words and

deeds. In a spirit of humility we are to preach and teach, minister

to the sick, feed the hungry, care for prisoners, help the disadvantaged and handicapped, and deliver the oppressed. While we acknowledge the diversity of spiritual gifts, callings and contexts, we also affirm that good news and good works are inseparable.

The proclamation of God's kingdom necessarily demands the prophetic denunciation of all that is incompatible with it. Among the evils we deplore are destructive violence, including institutionalized violence, political corruption, all forms of exploitation of people and of the earth, the undermining of the family, abortion on demand, the drug traffic, and the abuse of human rights. In our concern for the poor, we are distressed by the burden of debt in the two-thirds world. We are also outraged by the inhuman conditions in which millions live, who bear God's image as we do..

Our continuing commitment to social action is not a confusion of the kingdom of God with a Christianized society. It is, rather, a recognition that the biblical gospel has inescapable social implications. True mission should always be incarnational. It necessitates entering humbly into other people's worlds, identifying with their social reality, their sorrow and suffering, and their struggles for justice against oppressive powers. This cannot be done without personal sacrifices.

All evangelism involves spiritual warfare with the principalities and powers of evil, in which only spiritual weapons can prevail, especially the Word and the Spirit, with prayer...

We affirm that co-operation in evangelism is indispensable, first because it is the will of God, but also because the gospel of reconciliation is discredited by our disunity, and because, if the task of world evangelization is ever to be accomplished, we must engage in it together.

"Cooperation" means finding unity in diversity. It involves people of different temperaments, gifts, calling and cultures, national churches and mission agencies, all ages and both sexes working together.

Some of us are members of churches which belong to the World Council of Churches and believe that a positive yet critical participation in its work is our Christian duty. Others among us have no link with the World Council. All of us urge the World Council of Churches to adopt a consistent biblical understanding of evangelism.

Notice in the EMNR emblem contains three triangles. On p. 50 in the book "Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine" edition for CRI by H. Wayne House, it describes this symbol as Tritheism or three separate gods a false view of the Trinity.

See the membership list of EMNR - http://www.emnr.org/memlist.htm

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