Free Church and Ecumenical “Prayer”
The inroads of ecumenism into the Evangelical Churches in Scotland continue apace. Leading Evangelical ministers, including the Moderator of the Free Church, Rev Donnie G MacDonald, and Rev Fred Drummond, the Director of the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland, have appended their names to a “prayer” in connection with the nationwide “call to prayer”, a movement which was initiated by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
This particular “prayer” is more reminiscent of a poem or a piece from some vague modern liturgy. It contains no confession of sin at a time of evident judgement in the land, which is a serious yet sadly unsurprising omission. It is also a serious matter that a Free Church minister can endorse a piece of liturgical literature purporting to be a prayer that is also signed by the Romanist Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, the foremost representative of the spiritual Babylon in Scotland. How this nation, the whole of the visible Church and our own branch of the Church need the true spirit of grace and of supplications at this time.
AWM