A Message From G.E.

No it isn't "we bring good things to light." It's the other G.E. - George Eldon. And while some have called me a Laddite or Laddian (other suggestions include: wee Ladd and Ladd-boy), I think that the following is helpful as we consider whether it's prudent to drop Pre-Millenialism from the EFCA Statement of Faith:

Those who 'love His appearing' should close ranks and stand together on the great fundamentals of the Word of God.... The purpose of The Fundamentals was to unite those who stood squarely on the fundamentals of the faith and to make a powerul statement in face of the inroads of liberalism.... Standing solidly together in the battle for the re-enthronement of the fundamentals of our holy faith were premillennialists, postmillennialists, promillennialists and nomillennialists. Fortunately the conservative group contains no one who repudiates the blessed doctrine of the second coming of our Lord but the group does contain those who differ radically with one another concerning the whole millennial question.

- The Blessed Hope, (59-60)

The revised SoF contains this same line of thinking: we may debate the millennium, but this much is certain; Christ will return and this is our "Blessed Hope."