Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

fundamentalists’ adherents; and (3) the uniting of the conservativecamp, the thwarting of the liberals, the protection of the lambs from themodernists, and the setting back of the ecumenical movement andmodernism which might be accomplished by limiting the sponsorship toonly conservative groups may in the over-all outreach of the Churchmore than equal the number of converts brought in through the presentmethods.Despite Dr. Ferm’s comments on the unchallenged effectiveness ofthe ministry of cooperative evangelism in Dr. Graham’s case, thesupreme Judge in heaven may yet some day reveal to him that if thesponsorship had been limited to fundamentalists, humanly speaking,thousands upon thousands more might have been converted. If not incrusades, in the over-all outreach of the Church throughout the globe.Until that future day when the righteous Judge declares upon the relativeeffectiveness of cooperative evangelism compared to the damage it hasdone to the outreach of Christ because of its approval of the liberals, andcompared to what might have been, this point will have to be held inabeyance. However, it can surely be said now, that despite apparentresults and regardless of what opportunities any expert may think are tobe lost, God’s work cannot be done in any better way than in God’s way.ConclusionsIt has been noted that Christ did not have any earthly sponsor whichwas directly responsible for inviting Him to come to a region with Hismessage and which cooperated with Him in a united mutually approvingfront before the people. Yet because He displayed in His ministry a clearline of demarcation from all semblances of error in doctrine or conductand their proponents, rebuking them and their false teachings constantly,it cannot be sustained that He was not concerned with whom Hecooperated or with whom He was thought to have cooperated. Thus,since the elements of cooperation and mutual approval are part of thesponsorship relation, it is seen that Christ in His concern over thesewould also be and in fact now is vitally concerned with the sponsorshipof the message and messengers which go forth in His name.89