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Stranded in the Brazilian Desert
Bill Griffin Brazilians call the semi-arid desert of Brazil its “wild west.” Cowboys ride horseback, and oxcarts squeak along at their slow pace. This area, known as the Sertao, is populated with a large group of small towns and is fanatically Roman Catholic. The people show great respect to the priest, bowing before him and…
Read MoreScholarship, Separation, and ETS (5)
Part Five: The Quandary of Fundamentalists in an Evangelical Organization Wally Morris [One] ♦ [Two] ♦ [Three] ♦ [Four] ♦ [Five] ♦ [Six] Fundamentalist, Evangelical, or Both? Are Fundamentalists also Evangelicals, or are Fundamentalists different from Evangelicals? Is membership in ETS making some type of statement of identification with Evangelicals since the name of the…
Read MoreThe Deadly Menace of the Cultural Mandate
G. Archer Weniger Editor’s note: The following article contains some dated references due to its original publication in 1974. The subject of the article, the ‘Cultural Mandate,’ is no longer current terminology, but many Christians and churches are preoccupied with social causes that resemble the terminology. Consequently, we republish this article for sober reflection by…
Read MoreIs Our Culture Our Failure?
Wally Morris The significant changes in attitudes and laws concerning homosexuality, polygamy, marijuana, and other issues have surprised Christians who knew these changes would come eventually but not so quickly. Second Timothy 3:1ff. describe the characteristics of the last days, so we knew our society would experience significant changes. The policy change last year, then…
Read MoreWorship According to Jesus
Kevin Schaal American worship is as fad-oriented as present American society. The slickly marketed, highenergy, fast-moving approach to worship, so popular in the 1980s and `90s, is giving way to the calmer, highly sensory, Montessori-style worship of the Emergent Church movement. The problem with all these worship styles—even traditional forms—is that worship and church leaders…
Read MoreFBFI Annual Fellowship Update
The date for the Annual Fellowship Meeting is fast approaching! The schedule is now available, posted below, along with a link to a pdf flyer announcement for the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!
Read MoreWorth Reading
For our Friday edition, I’d like to provide links to some articles found online that you may have missed. In particular, the first one is particularly moving and instructive. The writer speaks eloquently about deep spiritual needs, but has no one to guide her. I would guess she is representative of people you know who…
Read MoreScholarship, Separation, and ETS (4)
Part Four: Examining ‘Staying In’ in Light of Separation Passages Wally Morris [One] ♦ [Two] ♦ [Three] ♦ [Four] ♦ [Five] ♦ [Six] The Application Of Separation: Do Biblical Principles Of Separation Apply To The ETS? Common Reasons For Fundamentalist ETS Membership & Responses Often in discussion and debate about separation,1 the various arguments focus…
Read MoreFatal Attraction: What Entertainment Is Doing to Our Youth
Mike Ascher In 1985 author and educator Neil Postman wrote the book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In his opening paragraphs Postman states that “at different times in our history, different cities have been the focal point of a radiating American spirit.” For example, he points out that before the American Revolution “Boston was the center…
Read MoreA Theology of Separation
Larry Oats In the last issue of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal I wrote an article on the Theology of Fellowship.1 This current article is the flipside of the earlier article. A theology of separation needs to be part of a theology of fellowship. This article will be limited to the New Testament. A study…
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