I was on other boards with Fundamentalists and some of them won't witness to the world. Maybe you've heard of Biblical separation or second degree separation. They feel that they will be viewed as compromising if they share the gospel with someone who has a reputation which is worse than themselves. The other problem is that there are other pastors like "J. Vernon McGee" and "Dr. Oliver B. Green" which I have listened to and fundamentalists will wrongly point to them and say that they taught that sinners need to repent first before they can share the gospel with them. Their example is Acts 2:38:
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
They think that the comma after "Repent" is inspired and that you have to have a pre-work before they can share the gospel. There are no commas in the Greek and we have a big discussion because repentance is a work and works aren't part of the gospel. The other point they omit is that "Repent" is preached with the gospel and if they wait for someone to repent before they preach the gospel then they omit what Peter preached because Peter didn't wait and the two (repentance and gospel) were preached together. And I pointed Fundamentalists to the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15 and said that repentance is not listed and that they were preaching another gospel:
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Belief is turning to God from something so in that way, belief compasses repentance.
I pointed them to Dr. J. Vernon's book on "Doctrine for Difficult Days" that all the repentance that we need is in the word "believe" and I was listening to Dr. Oliver B. Green on more than one occasion about why they are wrong so much that I have ordered other CD's where they are wrong.
They are missing the point and I think that part of the problem is that they have lost the love for the world. God so loved the world that He gave His son (John 3:16) but the separated fundamentalists won't love the world enough to share the gospel with them. I think part of the problem is that they are stuck with 18th century rules that people won't agree to today so they already feel like they will lose in any conversation attempt and they won't make any Christian feel welcomed on their boards. They are disobedient into going into "all" the world and preaching the gospel because the word "all" means "all" and it doesn't say "some" or "reformed sinners" only.
Here is a primer on why a fundamentalist missionary Baptist Dr. Oliver B. Green doesn't agree with them and I have more examples and I can write more when I have time:
Quote:
“Verse 15: ‘I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.’
“Our Lord knew that the world in which He was leaving the disciples would not change, it would not become better; yet knowing this, He made it clear that He was not asking for them to be taken out of the world. God could call Christians home to glory the moment they are saved, but if when they are persecuted He immediately removed them from the world, it would not be good for them-nor would it be good for the world.
“Christians condemn the world through righteous living, and although wicked men may not read the Bible, they read the lives of God’s people; and when we live blameless lives they take knowledge that we have been with Jesus. Therefore Jesus did not pray for the disciples to be taken out of the world, removed from persecution, trials, and tribulation. He prayed that God would keep them from evil, that they would not become part of the wicked world.”
“Beloved, even though we live in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, we have power to overcome. Victory has already been provided for us if we will only trust and obey! ‘Whatsoever (whosoever) is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, EVEN OUR FAITH’ (I John 5:4).-p.172., The Gospel According to John, The Gospel Hour, Inc.
“God does not want His people to go into seclusion, shut themselves away in a monastery of some such place, and hide from the world. We are His representatives on earth and we must give out the Word and be His representatives on earth and we must give out the Word and be witnesses for Him. The world needs the Gospel, and God has already promised victory in Jesus.”-p, 173, The Gospel According to John, The Gospel Hour, Inc.
And then I was listening to Dr. Oliver B. Green on the radio a few days ago and he talked about how he and his wife went to the house of a man who was an alcoholic and sat on nail cags because the man spent all of his money on alcohol and didn’t have proper chairs and tables. Dr. Oliver B. Green said he put on his best suit.
Backwards Fundamentalists can be a great help to share the gospel but if they wish to stay in esoteric interpretations and if they want to stay home and not witness then they are not loving God with all of their minds and they are not being faithful to Jesus in getting the gospel out.
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