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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
 | A Reader from DC writes
One of my regular readers writes this, "You put it very well, about the victims being made of cardboard to them [IFBx preachers]. These people do not see it in terms of individuals being hurt, often seriously injured, for life. They see it as a political [ie, gaining or losing personal power] issue somehow." |
The latest development on the Fundamentalist Forums was Chrstian Farris being frustrated because so many people still associate him/them with being a part of IFBx. I told him why on the forum and I will say essentially the same again here. If they want to be divorced from their IFBx past, they will have to do the following:
1. Publically repent of Hyles-worship (and other abuses of pastoral authority)
2. Refrain from behaving like IFBx preachers, which means no more temper tantrums online, no more railing, no more gross ignorance of Scripture.
3. Let others draw their own conclusions at their own pace as the church builds back credibility as god-fearing and genuinely Scriptural.
4. Behave according to the Scriptural dictates for an elder.
I should have added, 5. Use a biblical model of church leadership, which means use a plurality of elders.
That's always the sign of true repentance: Give up your power and hand it over to Christ. Can a rich man sell all his goods to feed the poor to follow Christ? Can an IFBx preacher give up his power to follow Christ? If Christ is with him, yes. But the flesh will always resist the true sign of change.
