Steve Pettit to replace Stephen Jones as president of BJU
There is all this talk about BJU appointing a qualified President and bantering about what does and does not qualify an individual to serve as President of a university. Has it not dawned on any of you that Fundamentalism has never raised up anyone who meets your qualifications or anyone’s qualifications to run a legitimate educational institution. Look in your churches for crying out loud, the reason Fundamentalism is a dead movement is because the churches are filled with dead men. Let the blind continue to lead the blind.
JJ, pleased to meet you as well. :D
Don, lol!
[RickyHorton]I pray he is a leader and educator with a discipling heart.
Ricky, While I would not call myself a personal friend of Steve Pettit, I have a family member who is. He was directly under Steve’s leadership for several years. While I can’t speak to the educator part of your comment - ‘a leader with a discipling heart’ describes him to a T. He will not let those under him live a half hearted or stagnant Christian life. He does this by example as well as one on one interaction. I have no idea what he will do regarding any rule changes, but I think the spiritual life at BJ is in good hands.
By this bolded comment, am I correct in assuming you believe Fundamentalists are spiritually dead IOW unsaved?
[JJ Hoban]There is all this talk about BJU appointing a qualified President and bantering about what does and does not qualify an individual to serve as President of a university. Has it not dawned on any of you that Fundamentalism has never raised up anyone who meets your qualifications or anyone’s qualifications to run a legitimate educational institution. Look in your churches for crying out loud, the reason Fundamentalism is a dead movement is because the churches are filled with dead men. Let the blind continue to lead the blind.
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
Not that they are categorically all unsaved (although some are with their Pelagian, works oriented way of obtaining and remaining in salvation). They are all categorically without purpose, aim, vision, mission, intellect, influence, etc. BJU could hire anyone they wanted to within Fundamentalism and it would have zero impact outside of the tiny orbit of the so called Fundamentalist movement, which is dead. Hence, blind leading the blind… .
You do realize that this site is for discussion of topics relating to the “tiny orbit of the so called Fundamentalist movement,” right? Of course, the participants here span many of the different sub-orbits, from close to broader evangelical to more strict fundamentalism, and not all of the participants would even claim each other as fellow fundamentalists, but the site is still intended for the “fundamental orbit.”
It’s not that you are not welcome to participate, but given your view of fundamentalism, I can’t imagine you’ll get much out of the discussions, and if you are just here to troll, there’s really no point.
Dave Barnhart
There are great discussions on here of which I benefit from. There are also many discussions on “hot issues” that are so highly debated when the matter at hand is not an issue at all. Furthermore, regardless of who BJU has as their president, the school will not make it to the 100 year mark if they continue as fundamentalists.
Just because society itself is rejecting the fundamentals of Holy Scripture does not mean we should abandon it. I am a fundamentalist, I realized I was when I was blessed to allow the Holy Scriptures which live and abide forever to guide me through life.
I know there are some fundamentalists who have stepped well beyond what the movement was meant to be. I also realize we are becoming less and less Biblically based in our thinking as a whole and
and therefore many will not want to be called fundamentalist. Some may think me as not being one of them because I am now part time in a contemporary Bible church. I do not care what they think.
My Holy Heavenly Father knows my heart and desires better than I do and I so want to please Him. I reached the age where it seemed I was no longer marketable to churches I guess. That has not changed
what I believe however.
A true fundamentalist is loving, kind, compassionate, patient practicing James 1:19. Accepts only immersion as baptism. I believe uses only unleavened bread for the Lord’s table. Is fully immersed in the
total authority of Holy Scripture. I refuse to allow anyone to steal what is precious to me by degrading Biblical fundamentalism just because some foolishly acted or spoke wrongly on some matters of
life. I believe you can find that outside of fundamentalism as well.
Bert Baker, Ex. 15:2
P.S. By the way, if I were not a Baptist, I would be ashamed.
[Bert Baker]A true fundamentalist is loving, kind, compassionate, patient practicing James 1:19. Accepts only immersion as baptism. I believe uses only unleavened bread for the Lord’s table. Is fully immersed in the
total authority of Holy Scripture. I refuse to allow anyone to steal what is precious to me by degrading Biblical fundamentalism just because some foolishly acted or spoke wrongly on some matters of
life. I believe you can find that outside of fundamentalism as well.
Baker, only one item you listen above is an actual fundamental of the faith as the early fundamentalists defined fundamentalism. And where is Scripture do you find an imperative to only use unleaved bread?
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