Featured The IFB/fundamentalist Baptist Style of Evangelism

Read your own words. Every time you refer to someone as anti-biblical for not believing exactly the same way you do. And you do it a LOT, and we all know you're talking about the church you're currently a member of.

Re-read 1 Corinthians 12:20-22. Stop bad-mouthing others because they don't have the same gifts/abilities you do. Appreciate the biblical, scriptural FACT God uses you one way and others another way. Then grow up, be a man, thank Him that we are not all alike, and then do as verse 22 says and go tell some of those who are more "feeble" than you how necessary they are.

 

By the way,, look at your own quote. Meant to copy it in the previous post: there are plenty who do go out, but too many who do not. If that's your point of view, I think between what others have already posted and my references to verses, it's been shown to be an unscriptural one.

 

No acknowledgement of what I said; just continued self-defense.

I knew an IFB pastor who once said people were complaining about him always preaching about tithing; he looked back at all his sermons for a year and not once did he have a sermon about tithing. I told him, "you're correct; but in every sermon, you said something about tithing." Understand why I'm comparing you to an IFB pastor: you both were technically correct, but missed the trees for the forest.

 

You're hopeless. Done with this. Putting you on ignore.

 

John the Baptist was not building the NT church. Philip used healing and miracles in his street ministry.

Acts 8:6-7 NIV
When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.

Are you going to follow his example?

 

That's a good point, I was speaking more for door to door as that is what I'm used to, however if someone comes up that seems interested get their name and ask for a way to keep in touch (number,email), and invite them to church or bible study

 

Not necessarily, and certainly not always.

 

This completely foolish statement needs to be retracted.

 

Why, Rippon?


The thinking that a person could be "possessed" through a mole or some other skin blemish, that those who were "different" (read: mental disorders) were possessed, and many other excesses that resulted in the death penalty were not uncommon in puritan controlled areas.

The actions of exerting total control over every aspect of the towns, deciding what was righteous and what was evil purely upon what they decided with little regard for the grace of God, cultural sensitivity, and much less the treatment of women is not unlike the IFB extremists from the 1960's - the 1990's. (and still goes on in pocket areas)

Relatively FEW puritans of the 1500 through 1600's reached out in mission work to the native Americans, much less to lands around the world, and those that did were often held to either very restrictive means or outright rejection by the puritan leadership.

Those who were "kicked out" of the colonies for non-compliance and being unprotected had been murdered by the native Americans were considered justly punished (Anne Hutchinson for example - kicked out because of the "free grace" controversy).

Puritan "evangelism" was for the most part - believe what I tell you or die - which was no better than that of the papist background from which they came and merely wanted to purify.

 

The witch trials and executions were, of course, carried out by Puritans, but to tar the entire Puritan group for the horrific actions of a few seems unwarranted. Puritans had their warts, especially in not separating from the Church of England, just as Luther had his shortcomings. That doesn't change how our gracious God has used them.

Recently I read a thorough biography of John Winthrop (subtitled "America's Forgotten Founding Father", by Francis Bremer) who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Examination of his life, and of his most famous sermon, "A Modell of Christian Charity", would put the attitudes of many/most Puritans in a more just light.