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Labels give a sense of identity. They also help us live within a comfort zone. They allow us not to think for ourselves. They also in way help us live a life of discrimination and bigotry. For instance! Members of the Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches have chosen not to fellowship with a church plant of a fellow association church. Why? Because they do not have "Baptist" in their name. Where does this spill over into? Not only fellowship but teaching. Why teaching? This same church plant can not send counselors to the Association Camp, Iowa Regular Baptist Camp.
Now explain to me how a group of churches and a bunch members on a board at a camp would say such a thing and institute such a harsh shunning of a church plant 1)was planted by a fellow BAPTIST church and 2) believes everything doctrinally the association and the camp stands for. This just seems silly to me.
To further muddy the waters, what does Faith Baptist Theological Seminary have to say about Bob Jones University that has Presbyterian pastors and Bible church pastors regularly preach from their pulpits, serve on their boards, teach at their schools and allow the students to attend their churches. Faith and the IARBC need to look at who they are going to fellowship with again because even BJU (a more conservative school) at least sees past the BAPTIST segregation.
Posted by Justin to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:37 AM
Labels give a sense of identity. They also help us live within a comfort zone. They allow us not to think for ourselves. They also in way help us live a life of discrimination and bigotry. For instance! Members of the Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches have chosen not to fellowship with a church plant of a fellow association church. Why? Because they do not have "Baptist" in their name. Where does this spill over into? Not only fellowship but teaching. Why teaching? This same church plant can not send counselors to the Association Camp, Iowa Regular Baptist Camp.
Now explain to me how a group of churches and a bunch members on a board at a camp would say such a thing and institute such a harsh shunning of a church plant 1)was planted by a fellow BAPTIST church and 2) believes everything doctrinally the association and the camp stands for. This just seems silly to me.
To further muddy the waters, what does Faith Baptist Theological Seminary have to say about Bob Jones University that has Presbyterian pastors and Bible church pastors regularly preach from their pulpits, serve on their boards, teach at their schools and allow the students to attend their churches. Faith and the IARBC need to look at who they are going to fellowship with again because even BJU (a more conservative school) at least sees past the BAPTIST segregation.
Posted by Justin to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:37 AM
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