The Misguided Fundamentalists And The Absence of Unity
After writing the previous post about unity I realized that the lack of unity is one of the greatest problems facing fundamentalists. Why is this so?
The obvious lack of unity among fundamentalists comes because many have replaced Biblical doctrine and Biblical preaching with a list of “dos” and “don’ts.” Man-made doctrine has usurped the place of Biblical doctrine and much time must be spent propping up the pet teachings of the misguided fundamentalist. This “soap-box” and “hobby-horse” style of preaching replaces doctrinal preaching and teaching.
This lack of doctrinal preaching leads to other problems:
1. The children of God who sit under this sort of ministry (if ministry it may be called) do not learn how to appreciate the authority of rightly divided Scripture.
2. The children of God in these situations do not mature and do not minister one to another as the children of God should minister to one another in the body of Christ.
3. People divide one from another and judge one another on the basis of disagreements about the “dos” and the “don’ts.” These things are subjective and vary from one person to another, thus causing one to rest upon his own “authoritative” (authoritarian?) ideas instead of Scripture. Thus, every man does what is right in his own eyes and unity is seen to come only by conforming to a particular set of “dos” and “don’ts.” The problem is that none can decide which list of “dos” and “don’ts” should be the one to follow.
It is surely much more simple of a thing to respect God’s Word, preach it, and seek to live it instead of setting one’s self up as the authority of faith and practice for all others to follow. As a matter of fact, that is the only way to have unity.
Just musing…….