CUL:Christians Exalting Christ  by Bill Jackson

   No, we haven't changed our name, but this title is a very good
definition for C.E.C. While our mission is to help local fundamental
churches in Roman Catholic evangelism, we want to have, as our primary
goal, exalting the Lord Jesus Christ.

   It is unfortunate that Roman Catholic evangelism is often accused of
being unloving and judgmental. I know there have been (and still are)
individuals and organizations that pour out invective against Rome
without showing any evangelistic love, but the Christians I fellowship
with in the Association of Fundamentalists Evangelizing Catholics (Bart
Brewer, Frank Eberhardt, Wilma Sullivan and Lyle Murphy) all exhibit a
genuine love for Roman Catholic people.

   We have real obstacles to be overcome. As I mentioned a couple of
months ago, Christian men who are expert in certain fields often have
no discernment concerning Roman Catholic need. Some Christians who live
in precariously Roman-Catholic-dominated situations are timid about
facing up to the real truths concerning Romanism. Others think that
Christian love is best manifested by pretending that everyone is all
right. For these we need your prayers.

   We also need your prayers because we are all human. An illustration
a pastor gave last week is very appropriate. We can go to battle under
the banner, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, but as we address the fray and get
all involved in fighting, we can glance up at the banner and see our
name instead of His. We must constantly assess, Under whose banner are
we fighting?

   Then, too, the very nature of the foe causes human problems. There
is no cult in the world so obviously counterfeit as Romanism to those
who truly understand principles of counterfeiting religion. Many and
blatant are the errors surrounding the sacrifices and sacraments of
Rome. It is easy to allow a fervor of expression to come into our
messages that masks our real concern and love, and makes it look like
we too are merchants of hate.

   Then we can make mistakes, and we can be led astray by others whom
we follow. For this reason, every statement we make must be at least
documentable, and formal statements should be documented from Roman
Catholic sources, not from some ex-priest or Protestant scholar.

   All of these potential problems will be solved in the proportion to
our exalting Christ. The Bible is full of ways that He can be exalted -
in evangelism, in teaching, in gain or in loss, in poverty or
abundance, every day and in every way our lives must be poured out as a
living sacrifice to Him.