Featured Has Fundamentalism Died?

I'd say:
Exclusive use of King James Version.
Rejection of all Calvinism.
Abstaining from all alcoholic beverages.
Separation from other denominations.
Aggressive "soul winning".
Dispensational and pre-Trib rapture teaching.

When I was one we abstained from movies in general, rock and roll music, and officially, you weren't supposed to even eat at an establishment that served alcohol, even if you didn't buy any. There was also the obsession with clothing and hair but that was the '70's and early '80's. That said, the congregation was loving, welcoming to new people, and all the prohibitions were done in a good hearted manner with even some humor and always with love. We left because we moved out of the area.

Oh yeah. They had the best pot luck dinners ever, anywhere.

 

Real Baptist Fundamentalism doesn't die. It gets Raptured.

Then it's enemies can celebrate it's absence during the Tribulation. Enjoy.

 

…then you’ve never been to a PB potluck

 

Well then I might just have to. Next thing you'll be telling me that they sing real hymns instead of mindless choruses accompanied by drums and an electric guitar.

 

It’s beautiful harmonious a cappella.

 

In all fairness, while it's true that fundamentalism, as broadly defined, has lost it's clout since the days of Jerry Falwell, the simple fact is that the things they predicted about the general path of society have come true.

And what I see in the modern YRR movement is an obsession with anything new and different. So we have our theologians growing billy goat beards and with enough tatoos to limit their job prospects to the carnival if they leave the ministry. There is a weird fascination with craft beer and cigars. And even worse, many of the leaders are being swept into embracing CRT and wavering on homosexuality.

As our society gets weirder, Christians are going to look weirder without deliberately doing anything. You can resist this openly and deliberately or be swept along. There are things we can all learn from the Fundamentalists.

 

We'll be worshipping tonight, Wednesday night, in the very same fashion as we worshipped when I was a child in the 1960s.

Same goes for Soul winners knocking doors this afternoon. Soul winners knocking doors Saturday morning. Bus workers working their routes Saturday morning. Sunday School and Morning Worship Sunday morning. Evening service Sunday night.

The fatalistic musings and opinions of a modernist man in the Northeast are utterly inconsequential to the reality that we know.

The Old Paths are still God's Paths.

 

do you guys do lining?

 

In some ways you are correct

I believe they mean well

 

No, not this bunch, up in the mountains some still do, there's an 'Old Regular' Baptist church (NOT Sovereign Grace) about 20 miles away where I attended a funeral that still line sang, but they were excruciatingly SLOW, I could hardly set through it. I've listened to some very good line singing on CD though.

I love a cappella where the congregation takes the song service very seriously and makes no bones about 'showing their stuff' when it comes to harmony. Lexington Church is a superb singing congregation. So is Louisville and Cincinatti.

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Campbellites (Church Of Christ) split off from the Old Baptists back in the 1830s, they retained the 'no musical instruments' practice from the Baptists. As a child my Granny used to take me to her CoC Sunday evening services, and it was beautiful singing. They took the song service very seriously and 'showed their stuff'. It's a shame they corrupted the healthful teaching though.

 

We sent our daughters to the Cincinatti Church singing school back in the 80s. They harmonized and sang like angels, we've several CDs of them singing, a cappella and guitar accompaniment.

 

The accusations of the anti fundamentalism liars.

 

One must differentiate between Biblical Fundamentalism and Cultural fundamentalism.

 

Almost all the Church of England makers of the KJV were Calvinists so how would exclusive use of the KJV be a complete rejection of all Calvinism?

Use of the 1560 Geneva Bible would be an older path than the newer 1611 KJV.
Use of the original 1611 edition of the KJV would be an older path than the use of post-1900 KJV editions.

 

I was just putting up a list of things, not trying to say one had to logically follow another. We were KJV only, even to the point of one of our pastors saying that the old Scofield reference bible was good but the new Scofield reference bible was bad.

Regarding the Reformers, for instance, we were taught re Calvin, "he was wrong on baptism, wrong on the Lord's supper, what's the use of listening to him". And while many fundamentalists like John R. Rice considered themselves "Calvinistic" or "moderate Calvinists" they rejected the TULIP especially limited atonement, which to many people, is the apex of Calvinism.

There are churches today, and some would be considered fundamentalist in the broad sense, who circulate literature that instructs members to be on the lookout for key words that those with Calvinistic tendencies tend to use, so that it can't get a foothold. That is what I call a complete rejection of Calvinism.

 

We all should be militant for the truth. I agree we should not be rude.