Voting for a gospel-preaching Pope
Gordon Cheng / 19th April 2005
/ The ones they wouldn't publish!
Seeing as how everybody else seems to have a view on who the next Pope should be, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon with this letter, which snuck into The Australian:
Last night in our (Anglican) church we prayed that the cardinals would elect a Pope who clearly understood and taught salvation: that we are right with God only through trust in Jesus Christ and his resurrection; not through the contribution of our own good works.
Issues such as AIDS, women priests, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and the like are of importance, no doubt about it. But if there is uncertainty about the grace and forgiveness of God, available in Jesus, the whole edifice has been eroded at the foundation.