It is no great surprise that we who preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ are engaged in battling to preserve his Gospel two-thousand years after his Incarnation. The apostles who followed our Lord and who were commissioned by him to preach the Faith warned us of this struggle that would be ours, and even they, who were but years removed from the time of our Lord, struggled mightily with preserving the Words of Life given by our Lord to his saints, as is evinced in most of their letters written to the churches in the New Testament.
However, what is a surprise is that it has come to the point that we who have historically fought for the purity of the Gospel must fight for the Gospel even among those who name themselves among our ranks. These, of whom I am speaking, are those who have joined in what is called The Manhattan Declaration, which essentially is a united effort between the Eastern Orthodox, Catholics, and Evangelicals to support the moral cause against abortion and homosexual marriage, and for the freedom of religion. And while these are most assuredly worthy social causes that are worthy to be fought for, it has now somehow come about that these groups of professing Christians, which have historically denounced each other’s gospel, are now are supposedly joined under the banner of the Gospel to fight against these social atrocities. These who would under other circumstances declare that the other preached a false gospel that spit upon the teachings of our Lord, are somehow now joined together in the same gospel and are now fighting together for the cause of social justice.