Assuming the book would be really well written, what topic would you like to see a =fundamentalist= publish a book on?
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Assuming the book would be really well written, what topic would you like to see a =fundamentalist= publish a book on?
Separation for a new generation: applying biblical separation principles in today’s setting Votes: 4
How to reject legalism without being worldly Votes: 3
A biblical view of poverty, politics and the church Votes: 4
Conservative Christianity: a “successor” to fundamentalism? Votes: 1
A fundamentalism worth saving: what it would look like, how to get there Votes: 4
New fights: where fundamentalism should focus its “militancy” today Votes: 0
Other… (please post in the thread and tell us your idea) Votes: 4
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
I don’t think we can say fighting itself is the problem, whether it has turned many away or not. But if the wrong sort of fighting about the wrong things (in the wrong way) has turned people away—and I’m sure it has in many cases—we fundamentalists have nobody to blame but ourselves for that.
Even if we what we need to fight is excessive fighting, that’s still something to fight.
(Apologies for going a bit Zen there… maybe I should have said “Grasshopper” first!)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Regarding fighting, I think what fundamentalists need to do is to distinguish “fighting the good fight” from belligerency, which in the past has sadly been the true hallmark of the “fightin’ fundamentalist,” at least as seen from those outside fundamentalism.
Dave Barnhart
We really need all of the above.
PLewis wrote:
Truly all seem like worthy subjects .. Except for : “New fights: where fundamentalism should focus its “militancy” today” . .. To be honest in my opinion the “fights” are what has turned many from fundamentalism .. I like books that focus on the positive ..I tend to disagree. It is HOW they fought (out to win an argument rather than using solid, truly intelligent reasoning) and what they fought over (preferences and trivial pursuit) that made it bad.
John MacArthur, for example, is very militant, but the guy is also intelligent and can think and tries to reason logically, not merely emotionally.
"The Midrash Detective"
I’m not holding my breath though.
Richard Pajak
or something along that line of encouraging some non-separatist activities or limited cooperation with other local churches that aren’t clones.
Someone want to help me find a publisher? :bigsmile: Actually, I planned to write this summer. But now that I’m not teaching, perhaps this fall?
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