Great Fundamental Leaders of today

It was my gaffe with apologies to Dr. Moritz. raying: I am not very well acquainted with him. I have not seen him recently and thought he was older. Of course, age is a relative thing.

At one time, "elder" was anyone past forty. Now, "elder" is getting older as I grow older. I didn't realize how young a guy in his fifties is and sixty is getting younger all the while.

I wish that I could say that this was my first mistake like the man who was perfect. He thought he had made a mistake one time before but he was wrong.:laugh:

 

Very true, very true.

:laugh: :laugh:

 

Bro Moritz got a good chuckle out of the posts. I am sure Bro Brooks would as well.

I do agree with the principle. These are both godly men who are among my "heroes of the faith."

"Elder" to me now is, oh, about 80 or so !

Its hard to tell on the boards paidagogus, but this all intended in the spirit of fun and good humour .

 

Dr. Malone is one of the greatest pulpeteers ever. But "Time and chance happeneth to all."

Sadly, the school has shrunk so small that it may be too late to rescue it. They have finally started paying attention to the alumni again, but it may be too little too late for anyone at all to rescue.

My own alma mater, Tennessee Temple, made the same mistake of ignoring the alumni, and are really struggling.

 

Dr. Robert Delnay is a good man. He taught me Baptist history along with alot of the Pauline Epistles as well as Greek at Piedmont Bible College.
He has also been influential in the innerworkings of Faith Seminary in Iowa and I believe Detroit Seminary at one time.
He just now kind of semi-retired from being the chairman of the Bible dept. at Clearwater Christian College. He is now close to 80.
Coming into bible college from a SBC background I knew nothing of the struggles of the fundamentalist movement the history of baptists etc...
He wrote a wonderful book entitled "Fire in Your Pulpit" It is a great book on expository preaching.
He is a fine example of a "Baptist Fundamentalist Gentleman". I owe him a big thank you for God using him to help shape my convictions to stand up for fundamental baptistic beliefs. Along with always challenging me to always study more. The man can preach from the greek NT yet drive home his messages in a practical way.
I just wanted to acknowledge someone who was not that well known but has stood tall in the saddle for the cause of Christian Fundamentalism.

Tom Farrell also comes to mind. I had always heard alot about him but never heard him until last summer. A excellent evangelist who does not just pound the pulpit and preach soapbox messages but really has some wonderful, expositional, evangelistic sermons that are fantastic.
Also, no dramatic, 50 verse altar calls either.
The music ministry provided by his wife , son and daughter in law is just top notch. The whole week was Spirit Filled and very well done. He is a fellow I would drive a pretty good distance to hear.

 

I'll second Bro. Sam Davison.

Is Kenny Baldwin one of the guys (brothers?) that started COEBRA, or is it COEBA?

 

S.M. Davis has been my pastor for over 30 years and he is a very Godly and learned man, as well as a dear friend.

I would nominate our own Pastor Bob as a down-to-earth fundamental pastor, not because he is my son, but because he walks the talk.

He grew up under S.M. Davis' teachings and preachings and they are still the very best of friends. Pastor Bob will always consider Bro. Davis as his mentor and pastor.

A few 'unknown' favorites of mine.

Dave Smith
Tom Williams
Ed Vallowe
John Bishop
Allen Ives
Jack Parchman
Kenneth Graham

 

Here are a few for you.

1. Peter S. Ruckman - Pensacola, Florida
2. James Knox - Deland, Florida
3. Steve Sturgeon - Dillon, Montana
4. Greg Estep - Dayton, Ohio
5. Sam Gipp - Evangelist
6. Gerald Sutek - Romania
7. Billy Eubanks - Evangelist
8. David Rowley
9. Brian Donovan
and MANY MANY More.

I would like to Thank each and every one of these men publicly for the help they have given me. These are Current Day DEFENDERS of the KING JAMES BIBLE.

Thank you again gentleman for contending for the faith and the BOOK.
Michael Maher

 

In no particular order of precedence, here's a list from my (as the Squire puts it) sub-sector of the Baptist galaxy:

• David C. Innes, Pastor, Hamilton Square Baptist Church, SF, CA
• John Vaughn, Pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Taylors, SC, President, FBFI
• Mark Minnick, Pastor, Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Greenville, SC
• Michael Sproul, Pastor, Tri City Baptist Church, Tempe, AZ
• Jerry Tetreau, President International Baptist College, Tempe, AZ
• Ed Nelson, Pastor, Tuscon AZ

This is list is not exhaustive. I have left out a lot of good men.

 

Peter Ruckman? So you agree that the KJV corrects the original manuscripts?

 

Puh-leese!

This isn't the BV/T forum. If someone thinks Ruckman is 'a good man we can pretty much rely on to be good leadership, someone who we can look up to', to paraphrase the OP (while trying not to snicker as I try to reconcile those noble words with Ruckman), let them.

Discuss the other stuff over in the other forum, please.

 

What does it matter? (Please don't take that as me being smart....sorry if sounds so). I just have had to learn in my Christian experience that it does not matter what man does, but what I do. If I place my focus upon men....they will fail me....because they are human. I think, too often, we have people who fall in love with these great men of God (i.e, Mr. Kidd, Pastor "X"--you fill in the blank...) and then they slip and fall big or a little. No matter, it affects these Christian's substantially. But it shouldn't. Don't get me wrong. I love my pastor, but I also do not place him in a category like most honest, best Christian character, or most spiritual person. If I were to do that, I would be placing him into an area of influence upon my life...that I should not do. It's not fair to God, to me, or to him.

Thanks.

 

In the spirit of chadnrachel's post, I hereby nominate the following as the truly great Fundamental Leaders of today:

Each and every one of the elderly widows and widowers of your local church's membership--many of which are not even physically capable of attending the corporate services --yet every day spend time in prayer interceding for their:

1) Pastor,

2) His wife, and

3) His children.

And then, when they are finished with that, do the same for each and every missionary that their church supports.


The longer I live, the more firmly I am convinced that it is the tireless efforts of these unsung and unnoticed heroes of our faith that deserve our undying admiration and gratitude.

And, you know what?

It wouldn't hurt some of those young people in your congregation one bit to once in a while visit these people, and learn from them what it means to have a real prayer life.

Who knows? Maybe then they will also add you to their prayer list.

 

Hey Sue... the John Bishop that you list... is this the same one that had meningitis, lost his memory and had to relearn everything (and calls his wife, "my Donna")? If so, I have a great message on CD by him from this year's Fire for the Future Conference. He has a wonderful testimony!!!

 

These "great men" of God definitely need our prayers.

 

Fundamental leaders of today

I nominate Brother David Hardy,

I was at a preachers meeting several years ago where the host scheduled the usual array of preachers to challenge us on Monday evening and all day on Tuesday. The preaching was excellent but at the end of the meeting before we were dismissed the host stood and brought the following (paraphrased) comments. "All of the speakers had one thing in common they had all been personally trained by Brother Hardy at Eastland Baptist in Tulsa." He then asked for those who had been trained by brother Hardy to stand, I have to tell you I was amazed there must have been at least 15 pastors there who had been trained by brother Dave at Eastland. My respect for the man went off the chart.

I have never heard anyone refer to Brother Hardy as Dr. and yet I am told he has his doctorate from DTS. He is in my opinion truly a leader in fundamentalism not just for his preaching and straight forwardness but for his training and passing on to others what has been passed on to him. He is a true Baptist and true gentlemen in the ministry to all us.

Thjplgvp

 

Yes, that is the same John Bishop. He runs Triple S Christian Ranch in Rosebud, Arkansas. We have known him for 30+ years.

There is a good picture of him and his wife on my son's church web site here:
http://www.geocities.com/xeniabaptistchurch/favoritelinks.html

 

Yes Peter S. Ruckman and Yes they do.

 

Wrong forum for some of this on this thread. But it would already get closed in another, hunh??
But not to worry. The ubiquitous moderators will surely snip what doesn't belong here, I trust.

Ed

 

Amen, Bro. C4K! Preach it.

Ed