A Note from Joel Tetreau

Dear friends at SI:

First, an apology.

I do feel bad that I have not been active here at SI for several years.

I can assure you my inactivity here has had nothing to do with SI. The last many years have been a blur. I will finish off 26 years as lead pastor at SVBC on Dec 31. This means I will have completed about 34 years of vocational ministry. On January1, I will transition from being lead pastor of Southeast Valley Bible Church to being full time in my work at the Institute of Biblical Leadership (IBL).

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Why I Joined the IFCA

I recently made the decision to join the IFCA International as an individual, vocational member. It was not a commitment that I entered into lightly. And, quite frankly, I was not really looking for an organization to join! Yet I became convinced over time that this was simply the right and wisest thing to do.

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IFCA Convention Calls Church Leaders to ‘Proclaim – Equip – Defend’

For the fourth year in a row, it was my privilege to oversee The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry’s exhibit at the IFCA International Annual Convention. This year’s gathering of pastors, ministry leaders and spouses took place in Springdale, Ark., at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center, from June 24 to 28.

The 95th edition of the IFCA Convention drew roughly 370 in attendance. It began with a general session on Monday night and concluded with three final choices in breakout seminars on Friday morning.

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Do Southern Baptists Now Qualify As Neo-Fundamentalists?

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“Jake Meador sees evangelicalism breaking into four subgroups, moving from right to left the neo-fundamentalists, mainstream evangelicals, neo-evangelicals, and progressive evangelicals. He says the SBC is now undergoing ‘an attempted takeover from a well-moneyed group of neo-fundamentalists.’” - Religion Unplugged

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Roger Olson Is Feeling Some Nostalgia for Fundamentalism

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“watching the film nevertheless ‘picked me up and transported me’ back in time to a time in my life when everything about life was simple, clear, uncomplicated, warm, meaningful, even exciting. God was real to us.” - Olson

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What Are the Fundamental Doctrines of the Faith?

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“The historic five fundamentals remain an important aspect of fundamentalism’s history and heritage, though they are not exclusive identifying marks of the movement.” - P&D

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Historical Fundamentalism: A Personal Word

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“My personal ecclesiastical heritage stems from what I would call historical fundamentalism…. what follows below is my own understanding of the term historical fundamentalism as used in a Christian context.” - P&D

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Russell Moore: Why I’m a ‘Bible Thumping Fundamentalist’

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“This context is one of the few in which I would use the word fundamentalist for myself. …someone who believes in the ‘fundamentals’ of the faith—the historicity of the biblical accounts, the Virgin Birth, the substitutionary atonement, the bodily resurrection, a visible and physical Second Coming” - CToday

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