Comments on: Stomping Toes and Stomping Souls: The Moralistic Bent to Fundamentalist Preaching http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/ Reforming Fundamentalism (IFB) through Reformed Theology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:02:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Confusion Over Fighting Sin « Fundamentally Reformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-10909 Confusion Over Fighting Sin « Fundamentally Reformed Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:55:37 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-10909 [...] Stomping Toes and Stomping Souls: The Moralistic Bent to Fundamentalist Preaching [...] [...] Stomping Toes and Stomping Souls: The Moralistic Bent to Fundamentalist Preaching [...]

]]> By: fundyreformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-9901 fundyreformed Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:36:26 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-9901 Thanks Jason. I'll have to do some reposts over there. Good idea. Thanks Jason. I’ll have to do some reposts over there. Good idea.

]]> By: JasonS http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-9819 JasonS Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:52:03 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-9819 Bob, Came to this post from SI. I like it. I hope it will be one that you share on FC sometime in the future. It is very applicable to what we want to deal with. Bob,
Came to this post from SI.
I like it.
I hope it will be one that you share on FC sometime in the future. It is very applicable to what we want to deal with.

]]> By: Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves « Fundamentally Reformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5519 Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves « Fundamentally Reformed Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:11:22 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5519 [...] [For my treatment of how the Gospel should be the focus of each and every public sermon in church, see here] [...] [...] [For my treatment of how the Gospel should be the focus of each and every public sermon in church, see here] [...]

]]> By: fundyreformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5514 fundyreformed Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:17:07 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5514 Thanks George. It's a blessing to hear others' testimonies. Blessings to you in Christ, Bob Hayton Thanks George. It’s a blessing to hear others’ testimonies. Blessings to you in Christ,

Bob Hayton

]]> By: George Hunter http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5515 George Hunter Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:51:59 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5515 Hello all! I chanced upon this site and have found it very informative! I too, was raised in a fundamental Baptist church until the age of 24. I am now 38. I think that this site is right on the head in most of its descriptions of an Independant Fundamental Baptist Church. I now go to a Methodist, but have also gone to a Lutheran church while living in another area. I don't think that IFB are all bad churches, but I think that they are very misguided and not focused on what counts! I made a lot of good friends growing up in the IFB church and I am glad of that. I also learned a lot about the Bible stories! My favorite Bible version is the King James Version, but I do not think it is the only Bible that is correct or to be used in the english language. Folks that believe the KJV is the only Bible to read are just ridiculous in my opinion. I speak several languages, and I find that The Bible in other langauges is easier to follow and more enjoyable to read actually! Anyway, thanks for this site! Keep up claiming God is love and Mercy instead of what IFB preach...that God is not these things! An Ex Fundy Baptist in Texas Hello all!
I chanced upon this site and have found it very informative! I too, was raised in a fundamental Baptist church until the age of 24. I am now 38. I think that this site is right on the head in most of its descriptions of an Independant Fundamental Baptist Church. I now go to a Methodist, but have also gone to a Lutheran church while living in another area. I don’t think that IFB are all bad churches, but I think that they are very misguided and not focused on what counts! I made a lot of good friends growing up in the IFB church and I am glad of that. I also learned a lot about the Bible stories! My favorite Bible version is the King James Version, but I do not think it is the only Bible that is correct or to be used in the english language. Folks that believe the KJV is the only Bible to read are just ridiculous in my opinion. I speak several languages, and I find that The Bible in other langauges is easier to follow and more enjoyable to read actually! Anyway, thanks for this site! Keep up claiming God is love and Mercy instead of what IFB preach…that God is not these things!
An Ex Fundy Baptist in Texas

]]> By: fundyreformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5521 fundyreformed Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:13:10 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5521 Thanks for your testimony, brother. When you don't know anything else, this kind of preaching seems right. But it isn't best and can be damaging. We need to rely on the grace of Christ not on the power of our moralistic efforts. Blessings to you in Jesus, Bob Hayton Thanks for your testimony, brother. When you don’t know anything else, this kind of preaching seems right. But it isn’t best and can be damaging. We need to rely on the grace of Christ not on the power of our moralistic efforts.

Blessings to you in Jesus,

Bob Hayton

]]> By: The preachers kid http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5520 The preachers kid Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:16:12 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5520 My Dad has been a preacher in an IFB church for as long as I have been alive, 36 yrs. I can tell you that, yep, this article is dead center right on. It is because of this moralistic, wash it all off on Sunday, dress right for Sunday and when the preacher comes around, that has led to the double life style christains that flood the IFB movement now. My Dad had this revelation about 10 years ago and began to move towards the "meat" of the Bible and not the pulpit antics that just get repeatative and eventually boring and not effective. Here's where it hits home for me. My 16 yr. old Daughter is going to spend the Summer working at Camp Victory, not by my choice, for George Griffis. Her mother, who is my ex due to IFB moralistic guilt, and her Dad, another radical IFB nut job plus a legalistic pastor, has convinced her that this is "a calling from God?" My daughter is a great kid, level headed, smart and just the joy of my life. Unfortunaltly, she will come back from this camp convinced that she needs to be a preachers wife and go to BBC to meet a good husband and fall right in line with the never ending cycle of IFB munipulation. Now, I know not all IFB churchs work like this BUT, we are setting up our children to repeat the same mistakes that we have lived for the last decade or two simply to satisfy 1 man, a senior pastor that insist, through many explanations of how God as blessed his life and the Holy Spirit speaks through him, that his "preaching" is Gospel. It is sad that so many God fearing people rely on 1 man, the preacher, to maintain the truly wonderfull realtionship the God overs all us every moment that we live. I am glad that my Dad and I have realized the mistakes of men and have found the truth in being a Child of God. My Dad has been a preacher in an IFB church for as long as I have been alive, 36 yrs. I can tell you that, yep, this article is dead center right on. It is because of this moralistic, wash it all off on Sunday, dress right for Sunday and when the preacher comes around, that has led to the double life style christains that flood the IFB movement now. My Dad had this revelation about 10 years ago and began to move towards the “meat” of the Bible and not the pulpit antics that just get repeatative and eventually boring and not effective.

Here’s where it hits home for me. My 16 yr. old Daughter is going to spend the Summer working at Camp Victory, not by my choice, for George Griffis. Her mother, who is my ex due to IFB moralistic guilt, and her Dad, another radical IFB nut job plus a legalistic pastor, has convinced her that this is “a calling from God?” My daughter is a great kid, level headed, smart and just the joy of my life. Unfortunaltly, she will come back from this camp convinced that she needs to be a preachers wife and go to BBC to meet a good husband and fall right in line with the never ending cycle of IFB munipulation.

Now, I know not all IFB churchs work like this BUT, we are setting up our children to repeat the same mistakes that we have lived for the last decade or two simply to satisfy 1 man, a senior pastor that insist, through many explanations of how God as blessed his life and the Holy Spirit speaks through him, that his “preaching” is Gospel. It is sad that so many God fearing people rely on 1 man, the preacher, to maintain the truly wonderfull realtionship the God overs all us every moment that we live. I am glad that my Dad and I have realized the mistakes of men and have found the truth in being a Child of God.

]]> By: Nancy Scott http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5518 Nancy Scott Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:21:51 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5518 P.S. to my last post. Our pastor always says, "When your heart is truly submitted to Jesus as Lord, the ten commandments become the ten promises...as we are changed image to image and glory to glory, this will be our character. P.S. to my last post. Our pastor always says, “When your heart is truly submitted to Jesus as Lord, the ten commandments become the ten promises…as we are changed image to image and glory to glory, this will be our character.

]]> By: fundyreformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls/comment-page-1/#comment-5517 fundyreformed Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:14:57 +0000 https://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/stomping-toes-and-stomping-souls-the-moralistic-bent-to-fundamentalist-preaching/#comment-5517 Thanks Nancy. Thanks Nancy.

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