A Pastor on the Manhattan Declaration

Dear Friends,

I have begun to get inquiries concerning my view of the Manhattan Declaration. This development just came to my attention Saturday morning as I was working on one of my messages for the Lord's Day. By early afternoon, I could not resist reading the document and ended up, in place of the sermon mentioned, preaching a rebuke of the signers of the Manhattan Declaration. In the sermon, I address a good deal of the shocking content of the document. We will be posting that sermon at http://www.sermonaudio.com/pcc later tonight. It is titled "A Rebuke of the Manhattan Declaration Signers." Since this is such an important issue, and since I am getting questions as to what I think of the M.D., below you will find a statement which sums up my position. I urge you to get a list of the original signers of the Manhattan Declaration ( http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/). Yes, it is the usual suspects, but you may be surprised by some of the signers, such as the president of Patrick Henry College.

Sincerely,

Pastor Ralph Ovadal


A Short Statement in Response to the Manhattan Declaration

The Manhattan Declaration is an ungodly manifesto, contemptuous of the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an ecumenical treatise, complete with a Romish gospel and shot through and through with popish error. Those evangelicals who have authored this document and who have led the way in signing it show themselves to be in rebellion to God. It is, in their case, a brazen manifesto of treason against the Lord Jesus Christ. And they are not friends but rather are enemies of Christian liberty in that they disobey and provoke the Author of liberty with their spiritual fornication, even wresting His word and corrupting His blood-bought church. It is the biblical duty of all faithful Christian pastors to stand against the evangelical authors of the Manhattan Declaration and all evangelicals who sign it or promote it in any way. Such betrayers of Christ and His church must be separated from and called to account by all faithful Christian ministers and people.

Ralph Ovadal, Pastor of Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin, http://www.pccmonroe.org/