Advancing the Church 2011, Tuesday PM session

mounty

Before I get too far into this, I want to say that I’m not a pastor; I’m not a formal theology student; in fact all the formal training I had was four years of a Youth Ministries degree in undergrad. I’m writing this from the perspective of a blue-collar church member, a one-time “Young Fundamentalist” who doesn’t really have a label anymore.

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Tuesday Evening: Mark Dever -- "The Church Displays God's Character"

Brian McCrorie

The following is not a transcript of the message. Rather, I have included the simple outline preached along with highlights from the sermon. I would encourage you to download the mp3 when available and listen to the message in its entirety.

Introduction:

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Type B fundamentalism and the Lansdale Conference

Joel Tetreau
Six years ago I wrote a few blog posts on what I called “Type A” and “Type B” fundamentalism. The following year the blogs “SI” and “Neofundamentalism” published my article entitled “3 Lines in the Sand.” Those articles kicked off a couple of crazy years of new friends, new conferences and some exciting times. In those articles I argued for a kind of fundamentalism that in some ways was more reflective of the first generation of the movement than what’s been characteristic of fundamentalism over the last several decades.

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Ernest Pickering on the Pitfalls of Separatists

KevinM

quoteSeveral bloggers have recently addressed the subject of separation, suggesting that current leaders such as Kevin Bauder, Dave Doran, and Tim Jordan are moving to a position that contradicts the teaching of an earlier generation of fundamentalists.

In reality, the leaders of the 1960s and 70s did not always agree on the best way to apply biblical teaching about separatism, either. Separatism then and now has always reflected a range of values, with good men differing on particulars as they responded to the issues of their era. For instance, Bob Jones Jr. and Bob Jones III were sharply critical of Pickering’s pamphlet “Baptist Principles Vs. Interdenominationalism.” They later faulted Pickering for accepting speaking engagements from organizations they considered to be new evangelical. The leaders eventually reconciled in the early 1990s, but had rarely spoken to each other for twenty years previous.

Disappointed with the rough-and-tumble disagreements of his era, Pickering concluded his seminal Biblical Separation with a critique of fundamentalism’s well-documented foibles—advice that would have saved us a lot of grief, had we listened. A portion of the book’s conclusion follows.

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The pitfallls of separatists

Separatists are human. They have sins. They are not perfect. While the matters about to be discussed are not problems exclusively for separatists, separatists are especially vulnerable to them by virtue of their unique position.

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Is the Evangelical-Fundamentalist Divide limited to the U.S.?

FredK
It has long ago been reported that the divide between evangelicals and fundamentalists is unique to America. Other nations, generally speaking, have no such rigid separation. (The exception would seem to include churches influenced by certain U.S. missionaries or colleges.)

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