Modern Baptist Heroes

[MissAbbyIFBaptist]

My own dear pastor, Lewis Batchelor, and his precious wife Joyce, are. They take a stand for truth and refuse to waver. Mrs Joyce is such a dear woman, a true Titus Two lady. {Those of you ladies who've read the discusion on Titus Two know what I mean.}
My best friend who is studying for the ministry will always be one to me. He's only been saved two years, but he already knows so much! He teaches me everytime I talk to him. His preaching convicts hearts, and he dosn't sugar coat things.
Evangilist/Missionary Don Sessions. Don't know if any of you have had the true privalige of hearing him preach, but he is truely a great preacher! I always look forward to the times when he comes.
Oliver B Green, DL Moody, J Harold Smith, John R Rice, many many more as well.
Most importantly, my precious redeemer, Jesus Christ!

 

[g_1933]

Not sure if he was a baptist or not but I have found the Biblical teaching of the late J Vernon McGee to be of great help and encourgement to me.

His Through the Bible ministry has been greatly blessed over the years and is still a blessing to people today. I am encourage by his unwavering Biblical stand and his unwillingness to comprimise Biblical truth and I thank the Lord for the ministy He gave him to encourage people like me. I consider him to be a hero of the faith.

G

 

[KPBAP]

In the past 100 years I would say:
George W. Truett- When was the last time a Baptist preacher spoke from the US Capitol?
T.B. Maston-When Baptists had ethics
William Hendricks-who taught it OK to be Baptist and celebrate the Arts
The countless Sunday School teachers and laypeople who share their hearts with others who never receive earthly recognition!

 

[Preacher Nathan Knight]

Originally posted by g_1933:
Not sure if he was a baptist or not but I have found the Biblical teaching of the late J Vernon McGee to be of great help and encourgement to me.

His Through the Bible ministry has been greatly blessed over the years and is still a blessing to people today. I am encourage by his unwavering Biblical stand and his unwillingness to comprimise Biblical truth and I thank the Lord for the ministy He gave him to encourage people like me. I consider him to be a hero of the faith.

G

He was presbyterian, but a great preacher and commentary writer. He was once described in this manner, " McGee is a Fundamental Baptist, He just doesnt know it yet"

 

[Graceforever]

Originally posted by Preacher Nathan Knight:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by g_1933:
Not sure if he was a baptist or not but I have found the Biblical teaching of the late J Vernon McGee to be of great help and encourgement to me.

His Through the Bible ministry has been greatly blessed over the years and is still a blessing to people today. I am encourage by his unwavering Biblical stand and his unwillingness to comprimise Biblical truth and I thank the Lord for the ministy He gave him to encourage people like me. I consider him to be a hero of the faith.

G

He was presbyterian, but a great preacher and commentary writer. He was once described in this manner, " McGee is a Fundamental Baptist, He just doesnt know it yet" </font>[/QUOTE]To name just a few....

C. H. Spurgeon -- I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, "If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly."...

M. R. De Haan -
R.G.Lee
Adrian Rogers

Pastor Henry Mahan ---"That God is able, in his mercy, grace, and wisdom, to make a way for our sins to be laid on a Substitute and the guilty sinner go free is the greatest glory of his nature that he has seen fit to reveal." —


John Calvin
Billy Graham
W.A.Criswell
John Clarke
John Knox
Augustine
Martin Luther


Roger Williams (1644) having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap-not the least grain of it for the whole world.

Obadiah Holmes (1607-1682) “I believe there is no salvation but by Him alone, no other name under heaven by which man can be saved. I believe none has power to choose salvation or to believe in Christ, for life is the gift only of God. I believe that the true baptism of the gospel is the visible believer with his own consent being baptized in common water by dipping, or, as it were, drowned to hold forth death, burial, resurrection, by a messenger of Jesus into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

 

[Major B]

Originally posted by Preacher Nathan Knight:
I would have to say:

1 Oliver Greene
2 Mike Bagwell (Oliver Greene's Nephew)
3 John R. Rice
4 Jack Hyles
5 Edgar Thomas
6 Billy Sunday
7 J B Jordon

Billy Sunday was Presbyterian. My dad heard him preach several times, said he was quite a character, as well as a great preacher.

 

[Major B]

Rolfe Barnard
Ernie Reisinger
John Reisinger
Gary D. Long

A.W. Pink! A lot of folks do not know he was SBC. Pink pastored several Baptist churches in Kentucky in his early years, and Mrs. Pink was a KY girl!

Boyce Taylor--pastored First Baptist Murray, KY from 1897-1937

A. T. Robertson--I use his word study books daily, and I'll bet a lot of you do too.

Walter Martin (the cult expert--He was Conservative Baptist)

John Piper, of course.

R. W. Shelton--OK, he was a bit nutty, but what a ministry!

And I will echo John MacArthur and Al Mohler.

Tom Nettles

 

[Pete Richert]

Spurgeon (alright, not exactly modern)
A. W. Pink

and now for the living

John Piper
John MacArthur
Thomas Schreiner
Scott Hafemann
Don Carson
William Mounce
Wayne Grudem
Timothy Geoge
Jack Fontaine

 

[Daniel David]

John Piper
Thomas Schreiner
Adrian Rogers
Paige Patterson
Al Mohler
Jerry Vines
Bill Clinton (just kidding)

Pete, are you sure that Carson and Grudem are baptists?

 

[Major B]

Grudem is for sure...

 

[Bible-boy]

I say every Baptist Missionary who is currently risking his or her life for the sake of the gospel is truely a modern day Baptist hero.

 

[Bartimaeus]

Missionary to New Guinia Charles Mosely
Pastor, Liberal Confounder Extrodinare, Whiskey Kickin', Hell preachin', Kid lovin', Shameful disgraceful black mark to IFB Preachers because he wouldn't take a license .....Lester Roloff.

Any Baptist Preacher today that won't take a license in the city of Louisville, Ky to conduct their "occupation".

Thanks --------Bart

 

[Mark Osgatharp]

1. J.R. Graves, J.M. Pendleton, A.C. Dayton, T.P. Crawford, Lottie Moon, John T. Christian and others who were fighting infidelity and modernism among Baptists in the 19th century while most Baptists were still in denial about the matter.

2. J.N. Hall, J.A. Scarboro, Ben M. Bogard and others who pointed the way out of Coventionism in the early 20th Century. Those of us who are heirs of the Landmark Baptist movement owe an eternal debt of gratitude to these men whose labors delivered us early on from the scourge of anti-Christian infidelity that has ravaged the Conventionist Baptists for the past 100 years.

3. The thousands of unamed Landmark Baptist men and women, pastors and otherwise, who labored, sacrificed, and bore the stigma of Landmarkism as they carried the banner of Christ through the 20th century. May God help us to carry on into the 21st, even till Jesus comes.

Mark Osgatharp

 

[Pete Richert]

Daniel David,

Grudem is for sure. I am pretty sure Don Carson is a baptist. I know he believes in believers baptism and the Lord Supper is symbolic. Whether or not he would label himself a baptist I am not sure.

 

[Jacob]

Originally posted by Pete Richert:
Daniel David,

Grudem is for sure. I am pretty sure Don Carson is a baptist. I know he believes in believers baptism and the Lord Supper is symbolic. Whether or not he would label himself a baptist I am not sure.

Wrong. Grudem is a Charismatic. Vineyard I believe.

Jacob.

 

[go2church]

A man named Martin Upendahl who was the state director of Child Evangelism Fellowship in Alaska for 20+ years. You probably haven't heard of him but what a great man, now preaching in Arizona. As humble and capable a man as I have ever meet.

 

[Major B]

Originally posted by Jacob:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Pete Richert:
Daniel David,

Grudem is for sure. I am pretty sure Don Carson is a baptist. I know he believes in believers baptism and the Lord Supper is symbolic. Whether or not he would label himself a baptist I am not sure.

Wrong. Grudem is a Charismatic. Vineyard I believe.

Jacob. </font>[/QUOTE]Grudem was raised and is, SBC. He was associated with some Vineyard people at one time, but is a member of a Baptist congregation. Theologically, he is a (mildly) charismatic (very) calvinistic Baptist who is very strong on inerrancy and definitely conservative on the role of women in the churches. On this board, he is a potential walking debate!

 

[Daniel David]

Originally posted by Jacob:
Wrong. Grudem is a Charismatic. Vineyard I believe.

Jacob.

I don't think so. Grudem is too intelligent to be a charismatic. He does take the open view on sign gifts, but that doesn't make a person a charismatic.

 

[Baptist Believer]

Originally posted by Daniel David:
Grudem is too intelligent to be a charismatic.

Wow!

I wouldn't equate the use of sign gifts (or indeed an "open view" of sign gifts) with a level of intelligence.

The same would go for being a Christian...

 

[Daniel David]

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