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Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Repent-or-Burn, Jan 20, 2010.

  1. Repent-or-Burn

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    Which denominations "practice" ecclesiastical separation?
     
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    It might be helpful if you can tell us what you're referring to regarding "ecclessiastical separation", and perhaps give examples.
     
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    It depends on how you may have interrupted "separation".
     
  5. Repent-or-Burn

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    1's, 5's, 10's and 20's usually stick together, although 20's tend to stick with their own. Most stores will categorically refuse anything over 20's. 50's and 100's usually remain separated from the lower demoninations.
     
  7. Tom Bryant

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    I am not sure exactly what you are talking about. Do you mean they are not part of the WCC or NCC or SBC or just on a local level with a local ministerium?


    Maybe an illustration would help.
     
  8. Repent-or-Burn

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    I mean, (for example) where church X will not associate with / do events with church Y, because church Y is heretical on a major doctrine. Or, they are allowing open, unrepented sin in their congregation.
     
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    Thanks for the clarification.

    I can only speak for my church. It depends on what we're talking about. We participate with churches and synagogues in the local food bank. But that would be the limit of our association on a cross denominational basis.

    In terms of spiritual cooperation, we basically stay with other Southern baptist Churches because there is a common set of doctrinal parameters. However when Billy Graham came to Tampa 8 years ago, we did join across denominational borders for the meetings. We had 5 people who came with us and who we counseled who were saved.

    I don't think I know enough about other churches to say if they have major unrepented sin in their congregation.

    Not sure I answered your question.
     
  10. Repent-or-Burn

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    Graham is an ecumenicalist, and has Roman Catholic Priests at his crusades. He converts people, and then gives them to the RCC.

    That is wicked, and in my view - any church that practiced good separation, would separate from Billy.
     
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    Good thing neither Dr. Graham nor myself answer to you. :laugh:
     
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    The devil is in the details (no pun intended).

    Are we talking ordaning g.y priests? Or are we talking use of the New American Standard Bible?

    Like I said...details...
     
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    Gay or straight, ordination of a priest is wrong!

    Examples: Women pastorate. Homosexual Members. Teaching salvation by works.
    Those are safe answers.
    I'd likely go past that, such as: Charismania. Immodest dress.
     
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    Sorry, but the devil is still in the details.

    Exactly what is "Charismania?" Some would claim the sister on the front row who raises her hand is guilty.
    "Immodest dress?" for some, that's jeans on women. For others, it's shorts at a church picnic.

    I'm not trying to be relativistic...but I see too many churches who spend lots of energy searching for reasons to "separate" from other fellow believers...it's a source of pride, it seems. And often times, the separation gets to a point of almost being silly.

    I practice separation as well...but not over iconsequential matters.
     
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    Charismania...
    Tounges in public, without an interpreter.. Drunk in the spirit, etc.

    Immodest dress...
    Cleavage, shorts (not jeans.)
     
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    I'm going to hell I guess. You may want to put me on ignore.

    I wear shorts. :wavey:
     
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    Hey, anathema.. Do you know which denominations would practice what I described?
     
  18. psalms109:31

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    I found this looking up on the web.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon And Ecclesiastical Separation

    “Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. I have faith in
    the Lord Jesus for myself, a faith burned into me as with a hot iron. I thank God, what I believe I shall believe, even if I believe it alone.”
    C.H.S., Oct.16, 1887 Sermons, 33.575.

    “A chasm is opening between men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an
    advance upon Scripture. The house is being robbed, its very walls are being digged down, but the good people who are in bed are too fond of the warmth, and too much afraid of getting broken heads, to go downstairs and meet the burglars... Inspiration and speculation cannot abide in peace. Compromise there can be none. We cannot hold the inspiration of the Word, and yet reject it; we cannot believe in the atonement and deny it; we cannot hold doctrine of the fall and yet talk of the evolution of spiritual life from human nature; we cannot recognize the punishment of the impenitent and yet indulge the ‘larger hope.’
    One way or the other we must go. Decision is the virtue of the hour.”
    C.H.S., Sept. 1887, The Sword and Trowel.

    “Believers in Christ’s atonement are now in declared union with those who make light of it; believers in Holy Scripture are in confederacy with those who deny plenary inspiration; those who hold evangelical doctrine are in open alliance with those who call the fall a fable, who deny the personality of the Holy Ghost, who call justification by faith immoral, and hold that there is another probation after death... Yes, we have before us the wretched spectacle of professedly orthodox Christians publicly avowing their union with those who deny the faith, and scarcely concealing their contempt for those who cannot be guilty of such gross disloyalty to Christ. To be very plain, we are unable to call these things Christian Unions, they begin to look like Confederacies in Evil... It is our solemn conviction that where there can be no real spiritual communion there should be no pretense of fellowship. Fellowship with known and vital error is participation in sin.”
    C.H.S., Nov. 1887, The Sword and Trowel.

    “It is a great grief to me that hitherto many of our most honored friends in the Baptist Union have,
    with strong determination, closed their eyes to serious divergencies from truth. I doubt not that their motive has been in a measure laudable, for desired to preserve peace, and hoped that errors, which they were forced to see, would be removed as their friends advanced in years and knowledge. But at least even these will, I trust, discover that the new views are not the old truth in better dress, but deadly errors with which we can have no fellowship. I regard full-grown modern thought as a totally new cult, having no more relation to Christianity than the mist of the evening to the everlasting hills.”
    “Let us see to it that we set forth our Lord Jesus Christ as the infallible Teacher, through His
    inspired Word. I do not understand that loyalty to Christ which is accompanied by indifference to His words. How can we reverence His person, if His own word, and those of His apostles are treated with disrespect? Unless we receive Christ’s words, we cannot receive Christ; for John saith, ‘He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.’”
    C.H.S., An All-Round Ministry, 373.

    “The day will come when those who think they can repair a house which has no foundations will see the wisdom of quitting it altogether. All along we have seen that to come out from association with questionable doctrines is the only possible solution of a difficulty which, however it may be denied, is not to be trifled with by those who are conscious of its terrible reality.”
    C.S.H., July 1889, The Sword and Trowel

    “For Christians to be linked in association with ministers who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of ‘Christian unity.’ It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.”
    C.H.S., The Forgotten Spurgeon, Murray, 164-165.

    “Separation from such as connive at fundamental error, or withhold the ‘Bread of life’ from
    perishing souls, is not schism, but only what truth, and conscience, and God require of all who would be found faithful.”
    C.H.S., 1888, The Sword and Trowel, 127.

    “The argument I have heard hundreds of times when people have been urged to come out of false
    positions and do the right. But what have you and I to do with maintaining our influence and position at the expense of truth? It is never right to do a little wrong to obtain the greatest possible good... Your duty is to do the right: consequences are with God.”
    C.H.S., 1868, Sermon at Metropolitan Tabernacle.

    “Failure at a crucial moment may mar the entire outcome of a life. A man who has enjoyed special
    light is made bold to follow in the way of the Lord, and is annointed to guide others therein. He rises into a place of love and esteem among the godly, and this promotes his advancement among men. What then?
    The temptation comes to be careful of the position he has gained, and do nothing to endanger it. The man, so lately a faithful man of God, compromises with worldlings, and to quiet his own conscience invents a theory by which such compromises are justified even commended. He receives the praise of the judicious; he has, in truth, gone over to the enemy. The whole force of his former life now tells upon the wrong side...
    To avoid such an end it becomes us ever to stand fast.”
    C.H.S., 1888, The Sword and Trowel

    “Ah, my dear brethren! there are many that are deceived by this method of reasoning. They remain
    where their conscience tells them they ought not to be, because, they say, they are more useful than they would be if they went “without the camp.” This is doing evil that good may come, and can never be tolerated by an enlightened conscience. If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold, I have no right to do it; and if an act of righteousness would appear likely to destroy all my apparent usefulness, I am yet to do it. It is yours and mine to do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever the consequences may be. ‘That is strong meat,’ do you say? Be strong men, then, & feed thereon....”
    C.H.S., Sermons 1891 37, 426.

    “As soon as I saw or thought I saw that error had become firmly established, I did not deliberate, but quitted the body at once. Since then my counsel has been ‘Come out from among them.’ I have felt that no protest could be equal to that of separation.”
    C.H.S., The Sword and Trowel.

    “One thing is clear to us, we cannot be expected to meet in any union which comprehends those whose teachings on fundamental points is exactly the reverse of that which we hold dear. Cost what it may to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty but our duty.”
    C.H.S., The Sword and Trowel.

    “No lover of the Gospel can conceal from himself the fact that the days are evil. We are willing to
    make a large discount from our apprehensions on the score of natural timidity, the caution of age, and the weakness produced by pain; but yet seem to be, and are rapidly tending downward. Read those newspapers which represent the Broad School of Dissent, and ask yourself, How much further could they go? What doctrine remains to be abandoned? What other truth to be the object of contempt? A new religion has been initiated, which is no more Christianity than chalk is cheese, and this religion, being destitute of moral honesty, palms itself as the old faith with slight improvements, and on this plea usurps pulpits which were erected for Gospel preaching. The Atonement is scouted, the inspiration of Scripture is derided, the Holy Ghost is degraded to an influence, the punishment of sin is turned into fiction, and the resurrection into a myth, and yet these enemies of our faith expect us to call them brethren, and maintain a confederacy with them.”
    C.H.S., Quoted by Russell H. Conwell 1892 in “Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the World’s greatest Preacher”
     
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    “It now becomes a serious question how far those who abide by the faith once delivered to the saints should fraternize with those who have turned aside to another gospel. Christian love has its claims, and divisions are to be shunned as grievous sins, but how far are we justified in being in confederacy with those who are departing from the truth? It is a difficult question to answer so as to keep the balances of the duties.
    For the present it behooves believers to be cautious, lest they lend their support and countenance to the betrayers of the Lord. It is one thing to overleap all boundaries of denominational restriction for the truth’s sake, this we hope all godly men will do more. It is quite another policy which would urge us to subordinate the maintenance of truth to denominational prosperity and unity. Numbers of easy-minded people wink at error so long as it is committed by a clever man and a good-natured brother, who has many fine points about him. Let each believer judge for himself; but, for our part, we have put on a few fresh bolts to our door, and we have given orders to keep the chain up, for under the color of begging the friendship of the servant, there are those about who aim at robbing the MASTER. We fear it is hopeless ever to form a society which can keep out men base enough to profess one thing and believe another; but it might be possible to make an informal alliance among all who hold the Christianity of their fathers. Little as they might be able do, they could at least protest, and as far as possible free themselves of that complicity which will be involved in a
    conspiracy of silence.”
     
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    I would go to a church filled with bikers clad with leather and tattoos with long hair as long as they preach the Holy Bible inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, Gospel truth.
     
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