TS&TT: The Faulty Fundamentalist Fantasm

[@PSUIVERSON]

I never knew of Jared Longshore but watched his recent address on the new religion and his balance is beautiful.

[@museikmanne9866]

You have your finger on the pulse of the situation. Thank you.

[@eleanor4330]

Great, great episode!!

[@SSJR47]

It's hard not to become bitter and angry sometimes as a young man trying to find his way in this confusing church. I appreciate the stand you've been taking, especially relating to the SBC. God bless.

[@andronikostheophilos]

Been there, and done that. Back in the late 80s John MacArthur published a book called "Ashamed of the Gospel." Still in print and worth reading.

[@SSJR47]

@@andronikostheophilos thank you, sir!

[@andronikostheophilos]

I am a self confessed polemic person by character. However, I am not a "fundamentalist." I am a very conservative evangelical that holds to reformed soteriology. As a person polemic in nature, I will fight against those that try, intentionally or unintentially, to depart from biblical FACT (AKA truth). I stopped worrying about offending folks a long time ago. My only concern is offending God, by my methodology, which may not have God's glory in mind, but my own ego. The Founder's Organization have never been prone to an inflated ego, but so many SBC churches are egotistical because their pastors are. I liked Dr. Nettles article you quoted. It is as if the "restored" SBC are becoming the CBF that left. I am only 67, but I remember 1979 and the years after them. It is time to clean house of the mushy moderates who are to quote Dr. Ascot really just "theroretical inerrantists."

[@overcamehim]

Jared has a great radio voice.

[@johnguill6129]

I first heard criticism about "being a fundamentalist" when I became a Christian in 1990. The tongue-in-cheek implication was that a Christian fundamentalist was as radical as an Islamic fundamentalist. I did not understand the discussion, being new in Christ, until a pastor explained the five fundamentals of Christianity, and then said if you believe in the fundamentals of Christianity then you are a Christian fundamentalist. (That pastor may have been Mac Brunson when he pastored here in Chesapeake, Virginia.) Since then I have heard other Christians equate fundamentalists as those Christians that dictate dress codes, work habits, or things outside traditional, orthodox Christian doctrines. I believe the Five Solas and the Five Fundamentals are doctrines worthy standing alongside of. That would make me a fundamentalist. I would ask such critics, "Does this also make me a "Solaist?" (Not to be confused with a soloist.)

[@rebelteacher]

Why treat "fundamentalist" like a dirty word and propagate stereotypes? There is a spectrum within fundamentalism, too.

[@ThinkingBiblically]

Salvation precedes Lordship. So where does the Bible authorize entities like the SBC?

[@levibaer18]

It can be summed up to, “hath God said”.

[@waldensmith4796]

Great show. Agree we have to take stand to be overcomers. I did a teaching on Discipleship 2 parts which covers our Commission from Jesus Christ. The definition of a Disciple is one who believes and Follows the Teachings of Jesus Christ.

[@worshambaptist4177]

Some of us are old enough to remember when Adrian Rogers, Charles Stanley, Jerry Vines, and others were labeled as "fundamentalists". That seems to be the buzzword to discredit anyone who challenges the status quo in the SBC.

[@ThecrosseyedTexan]

Completely off the point but those gentlemen are using the ElectroVoice RE320 it looks like to me. Could be the black version of the r20

[@Mulerider4Life]

Never saw any pirates show up at the Convention. Just people who said they were going to "take the ship".

[@bencorley8687]

Jared, be real with us, you're just mouthing the words and it's a recording of you saying the intro right up to when it's Tom's go... right?

[@johnelliot8153]

think it was brother Paul Washer who warned a few years ago that faithful believers would soon be decried as fundamentalists...😁

[@dawda7]

Curtis Lee Laws coined the term as a clarion call "to do battle royal for the fundamentals of the faith." To defend the biblical doctrines Liberals made it a term of derision. For the fundamentalist it was and is a badge of honor.

[@rscottw58]

15:00 Spot on. I believe we can proclaim the truth firmly without yelling and screaming and beating non-believers over the head with the Bible. Non-believers don't understand why you are so passionate about what you are trying to tell them. We put on our "preacher" voice and attack. Certainly not all, but a lot of our brothers do. I guess what I'm getting to is, we can be firm, but speak out of love.

[@michalpalmer6442]

CHRIST is the foundation, we are the builders who will burn.

[@karenduncan6004]

Funny that you gentlemen mock Fundamentalists, who have been fighting for decades the drift that you are now objecting to in evangelicalism.

[@Orwellwascorrect]

So “fundamentalist” is now a new slur by the “neo evangelicals” like the SBC. It was a lot easier when all we had to do was discern between WOF and NAR. The neo evangelicals are a lot more deceptive.

[@JimAsAuthor]

Nathan Finn's definition is one-dimensional. That is, it presents "Christian Fundamentalism" as merely reactionary. There is much more to "Christian Fundamentalism" than a reactionary movement against "Progressive tendencies," true though that may be. Rather than negative definitions, some more positive aspects should be incorporated into our "definition." Hmm... I should have left more time to listen to the whole video.... Thank you for addressing the topic -- more later....

[@YSLRD]

I downvoted this for the first time. Fundamentalism isn't a dirty word.

[@scottgordon1303]

Herein is one of my problems with the Founders Ministries. Not its belligerent attitude to Wokeism but its acceptance of Arminianism. They speak highly of Arminians like Adrian Rogers and change the definition of fundamentalism to fit in it when true fundamentalists (Arminians) like the coterie of John R. Rice and Bob Jones despise them. Sovereign Grace Baptists are fighting a fight on all fronts. Be mad at both, Arminians like Adrian Rogers and Wokeists like Mark Dever.

[@graysonbr]

Patterson's lies and attitude didn't help fundamentalists.