Neal Jackson Resigns from Pensacola's Campus Church after 2 1/2 Years

[Rob Fall] ] As for BJ’s morning service, it just may be a little “high” church for most here. I put it down to the founders being Methodist or Presbyterian.

“or Presbyterian”? Maybe you know something I don’t.

I didn’t think that Methodists were originally particularly “high church”. I can’t help but think about camp meetings when I think of Methodists. Guess I need to get out my church history book.

I thought it had more to do with Dr. Bob Jr. liking the arts and formality and all that goes along with it. They aren’t exactly the “free will Baptist” kind of people though BJU does have some Free will Baptists that attend. (or at least they did).

I don’t think anyone except “dyed in the wooll PCC loyalists” think that the Campus church at PCC is a regular, normal, whatever you want to call it, Baptist church.

It is a case where they call it that, so for the sake of conversation, they consider it that, but others know that it isn’t really a normal church. They have “church services” there, just as BJU does. BJU doesn’t claim that it is. Maybe PCC avoids the label of “not local church” by having a “so called local church” there.

[Becky Petersen]
“or Presbyterian”? Maybe you know something I don’t.

I didn’t think that Methodists were originally particularly “high church”. I can’t help but think about camp meetings when I think of Methodists. Guess I need to get out my church history book.

Coming from a fundamental Methodist background, I can tell you that at least some Methodists are a bit schizophrenic in that area. Our normal Sunday morning church services were fairly high-church (responsive readings, communion at the altar instead of in the seat, very ceremonial for baptisms, baby dedications, etc.). Sunday evenings were much less so — then it was often more the camp-meeting atmosphere, with more “gospel-song” type music/singing. Our revival meetings in the summers were generally multi-week, and they were held in a large circus tent out in a large field, and they seemed very much like the type of meetings you saw in “Sheffey.”

Now that I think of it, given the Wesleys’ background in Episcopalianism, and the fact that Methodists generally lean Arminian, maybe this schizophrenia is easy to understand, and the norm for independent Methodism. Hmm, I’ll have to consider that some more.

Anyway, as a result of this, what I experienced at BJ (a big difference between the Sunday morning and evening services) felt pretty normal to me, except for BJ not really being a church.

remind me of what my Presbyterian pastors wore lo many moons ago. Think Geneva and academic robes. The academic garb would tend put the school’s image in the same tradition as Oxford or Cambridge. IOW, we’re not a bunch of back woods knuckle draggers.

[JohnMatzko] When Bob Jones College began in 1927, it had a campus church service. There was no alternative. The campus was seven miles from Panama City, some of that route dirt road. There wasn’t much in Panama City anyway. And the students didn’t have cars, although at least one guy had a motorcycle. One student of the era remembered the Florida campus being so isolated “you could hear the owls hoot.”

This came up during a time of fellowship with church members last night. It’s hard for even the most senior among us to remember the time when little towns and settlements dotted the panhandle of Florida, and there was not transportation to get quickly from town to town. Each little village had the ability to meet it’s own meager needs, and a trip “to town” was a big undertaking.

College Point is now a small neigborhood in Lynn Haven, FL, which which has grown to the point where it borders Panama City. You can get from there to downtown Panama City in 15 minutes, if you want to, depending on traffic. There are churches of every flavor on almost every corner. And most people have no idea why it is called College Point.

I was on vacation if Gulf Shores when I tuned in to what was the final sermon broadcast by DR Jackson. I live in West Central Georgia and had never saw this broadcast in our area. I really enjoyed the message and felt that DR Jackson did an acceptional job. If anyone knows where he has re-established his ministry I would love to know so I can follow some of his teachings and establish a point of contact for his minsitry. When God calls us to a new place or puts us on a new path we need not question, criticize or complian but be obedient in the matters of the Lord.

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They are a called out body of believers who regularly meet together for worship. Of course they’re a church. What a silly question. o_O