Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2005 / 22:00 pm
“If Evangelicals, like me, could have claimed a Pope as our own, he would have been John Paul II,” said Rev. Rob Schenck, a past board member and minister of the Evangelical Church Alliance.
“He did more to bring together conservative Bible-believing Christians, like me, in common cause with Catholics, both lay and clergy, than anyone else in the Roman Church's history,” he said.
The president of the National Clergy Council said Evangelicals appreciated Pope John Paul II’s “joy in the Lord” and smiling disposition.
“He had an obvious love of Christ that showed unapologetically in his bright eyes,” Schenck said. “We could tell that his Christian faith was first passionate before it was cerebral.”