As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“or many ex-fundies, though, our reminiscences take the form of an honest appraisal of the good and bad found within fundamentalism. Count me among that latter group.” - John Ellis
“July 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Sheffey, an itinerant circuit-riding preacher committed to proclaiming the Gospel to the mountain folk in the Eastern U.S.” - VCY
“There is nothing inherently wrong in disagreement, or even in dividing into groups over those divisions. The danger comes when we are not honest in our actions and transparent about our motives.” - SBC Voices
“Some online commentators have … asserted that an Alliance contributor — perhaps Carl Trueman, Todd Pruitt, or any other contributor or editor — is personally responsible for this change. No Alliance contributor or editor ever has such authority. There is no longer an Alliance Council speaking for the Alliance, nor are these difficult calls the result of pressure from any outside group.
“I am joined by Dr. Mark Noll, research professor at Regent College… author of Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019), ….
Walter Kim at his March 4 inauguration: “This movement is confronting an identity crisis and it’s not just the mild sort of growing pains….The challenges are real and they have to be confronted with honesty…but not with fear.” - RNS
“Globally, evangelicals number 660 million and represent 26% of the world’s Christian population, according to estimates from researcher Sebastian Fath. In addition, the research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and specialist in the study of evangelicalism says more than 60% of evangelicals live in Asia or Africa.” - F&T
“We are concerned about the current road our Southern Baptist family is traveling. It is a road that is twisting what God’s Word is saying about things like human sexuality, biblical racial reconciliation, and socialistic justice,” said Brad Jurkovich, the network spokesman. - Christian Post
Thomas Ice
Republished from Voice, Jan/Feb 2020.
While all fundamentalists have not been premillennial, the overwhelming majority have been. Premillennialism has been a historic staple of fundamentalism. It is often the case that when one abandons the fundamentals of the faith, they also abandon the premillennial hope. Why has that been the case in the past and why should it continue into the future, especially within the IFCA?
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