Gospel Coalition - Day One

dmicah

Day one of the Gospel Coalition for 2011 has been very long, but profitable. As I’ve been up for 17 hours with a two hour drive and two hour flight in the mix, I will have to be brief. I had the privilege of being at the 2009 event and this by far is bigger with a much better venue - McCormick Place in Chicagoland. As is the tradition at TGC, an attendee receives free bibles and books. There were fewer goodies this year, but the participants have also increased. No one has stated a number, but i would wager greater than 6,000 folk are in attendance.

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Trinity Member about the ABC 20/20 New Magazine

ppayette
Good morning,

I have been reading all of the posts in the last thread regarding Trinity and the ABC 20/20 report coming on tonight. Many were very thoughtful and are encouraging to me, as a long time member of Trinity Baptist Church. Although I joind the church the year after the incident took place in 1997, I sat under the teaching of both Pastor Phelps and Pastor Fuller. I have a great deal of respect for both of these men…but again, the key word here is men. I am also a former police officer in NH so I have a bit of knowledge on how the laws work.

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Elizabeth Vargas’ Year-long Investigation into the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church Airs on “20/20,” Friday, April 8, 10-11 PM ET

Jim
Elizabeth Vargas’ Yearlong Investigation Into The Independent Fundamental Baptist Church, Airs On “20/20,” Friday, April 8, 10-11 PM ET Try to imagine the pain and humiliation of a teenage girl, just 15 years old, who says she was forced to stand in front of a New Hampshire church congregation and confess her “sin” of being pregnant.

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The Postmortem of Historic Fundamentalism

Ron Bean
This four part series can be found http://www.straightwayonline.org/default.aspx?id=200: here.

In the first paragraph of Part One is this statement: ” One may enter a Fundamentalist church now and find it comfortably taking no stand against the apostasy, evidenced by its contemporary music, its “up to date” Neo-Christian Bible versions, and its casual dress standards. (Bold print added)

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Are Fundamentalists more esteemed by God?

FredK
Eating out with church friends last night, we discussed whether committed F are more highly prized in the eyes of God than non-F - the rest of Christ’s true church? What would you say?

Secondly, should we consider non-F as typically morally inferior to committed F?

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