Leading evangelicals ask NAE to refrain from taking

a position on climate change issue

We have appreciated the bold stance that the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has taken on controversial issues like embracing a culture of life, protecting traditional marriage and family, promoting abstinence as AIDS prevention, and many others.

We respectfully request, however, that the NAE not adopt any official position on the issue of global climate change. Global warming is not a consensus issue, and our love for the Creator and respect for His creation does not require us to take a position.

We are evangelicals and we care about God’s creation. However, we believe there should be room for Bible-believing evangelicals to disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue.

Further, we signatories who are members of the NAE believe that if the NAE wishes to take an official position on global warming or any other issue, it should do so through its formal process within the general council. Individual NAE members or staff should not give the impression that they are speaking on behalf of the entire membership, so as not to usurp the credibility and good reputation of the NAE.

Evangelicals are to be first and foremost messengers of the good news of the gospel to a lost and dying world. We are to promote those things that please God and oppose those things in the world that clearly violate His righteous standard of conduct. We respectfully ask that the NAE carefully consider all policy issues in which it might engage in the light of promoting unity among the Christian community and glory to God.

With love and respect,
(Affiliations are provided for identification purposes only.  Signatories are representing their own views, and not necessarily those of their churches or organizations.)

Charles W. Colson, Founder and Chairman
Prison Fellowship Ministries

Dr. James C. Dobson, Founder and Chairman
Focus on the Family

Dr. John C. Hagee, Founder and Senior Pastor
Cornerstone Church
San Antonio, Texas

Rev. Dr. D. James Kennedy, Senior Minister
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Dr. Richard Land, President
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Richard Roberts, President
Oral Roberts University

Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman
Traditional Values Coalition

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

David Barton, Founder and President
Wallbuilders

Joel Belz, Founder
World Magazine

Dr. Richard B. Belzer
Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Associate Professor
Knox Theological Seminary

Rev. Jack Bradley
Emmanuel Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Colville, Washington

Dr. Kenneth Chilton
Chapel of the Lake, Lake Saint Louis, MO

Thomas Chilton
Associate Director of International Training
Awana Clubs International

Charles W. Jarvis, Chairman
USA Next

James Lafferty
Christian Seniors Association

Tracy Miller
Associate Professor of Economics
Grove City College

Dr. Joey Pipa, President
Greenville Theological Seminary

Dr. Timothy D. Terrell
Associate Professor of Economics
Wofford College

Rev. Ralph Weitz, Stewardship Pastor
Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, VA

Alan Wisdom
Interim President
Institute on Religion and Democracy

 

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