tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post7841966122850614921..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: A Major Part of What's Wrong with Fundamentalism (and Evangelicalism)Kent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-77635231763917078102014-04-01T18:03:58.373-07:002014-04-01T18:03:58.373-07:00Though I rejoice that my Pastor is being spoken il... Though I rejoice that my Pastor is being spoken ill of due to his stand on the Scriptures, (I rejoice because so was Jesus Christ), at first it grieved me. <br /> Bobby Mitchell is my Pastor and I couldn't ask for a better Pastor. Not only that but he is my friend. It was through his preaching that I was saved, as well as many others. Paul J. might not want to hear what Pastor Bobby has to say but there is a group here in Brunswick that does. <br /> I praise the Lord that He sent me to Mid-Coast Baptist Church in Brunswick Maine. And I praise the Lord for a Pastor that will preach the truth (the real truth, not what false teachers claim is truth) and who will actually "pastor". I love my Pastor! <br /> Thank you Pastor Brandenburg for this article. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15562153836350820281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-90998299344153266382014-04-01T17:00:59.251-07:002014-04-01T17:00:59.251-07:00Bro. B,
It is important to illustrate and reinforc...Bro. B,<br />It is important to illustrate and reinforce the validity of your point, because it is denied by most fundamentalists, particularly those who are in leadership positions at these colleges and seminaries. They deny that there is an education = qualification for ministry, but the reality is that this sentiment is mainstream, and their own pulpit platforms are the pudding proof if you will. I could tell you several guys that were good boys who towed the line and got their undergrad and graduate degrees and played the politics and thus climbed the ladder and were immediately moved into the regular preaching rotation at their alma mater and all it's contacts. Other men did not follow the politics and ladder climbing of the Bible education movement, (some of them were labeled 1 Year Wonders) but did get what education they felt would help them and then, after working under the II Tim. 2:2 model, went straight to the actual work of the ministry, not just preaching in chapel about the work of the ministry. The latter group of men (uncredentialed) are not the ones who are invited back to preach at chapel. And they don't mind, they would rather shepherd a flock than please a man. The truth of your post is undeniable, although it will be denied to the last dying breath of fundamentalism.Steve Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920334627083544106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-37658443194786071562014-04-01T14:13:50.601-07:002014-04-01T14:13:50.601-07:00Scatter them in the highways, hedges, backwoods, l...Scatter them in the highways, hedges, backwoods, lochs, and fjords.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-44527612773487008532014-04-01T14:02:17.205-07:002014-04-01T14:02:17.205-07:00Kent, today 40,000 Gospel leaflets / church invita...Kent, today 40,000 Gospel leaflets / church invitations arrived, now sitting in boxes in my hall. Next week, weather / health permitting, they start going through doors, tucked inside the front cover of John/Romans booklets.<br /><br />I don't have time to give up, even if I wanted to. :)Jon Gleasonhttp://www.mindrenewers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-79543186987242414322014-04-01T12:40:43.453-07:002014-04-01T12:40:43.453-07:00Thanks for the comments here.
Jon Gleason,
Your ...Thanks for the comments here.<br /><br />Jon Gleason,<br /><br />Your comment was right on. You hit bullseye.<br /><br />I have to admit, I don't know who Paul J is, and I wrote a whole post thinking he was someone else. hahahaaha But then once it was done and I found he wasn't who I thought, I thought the point still stood.<br /><br />I'm still getting a kind of chuckle out of it, thinking about it.<br /><br />Anyway, don't give up in Scotland, Jon G<br /><br />Or B MitchellKent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-25787145461511684722014-04-01T07:16:05.794-07:002014-04-01T07:16:05.794-07:00Well, the Lord has been very gracious to this unle...Well, the Lord has been very gracious to this unlettered shepherd from the "backwoods." I deserve to be in the lowest part of hell. I'm humbled to be thrown in with men like David (who shepherded a "few sheep" in the wilderness), the Lord (who was said to have no "letters), and the apostles (who were called "unlearned"). <br /><br />God saved me in a church that many would say is in the backwoods . It was a wonderful assembly of the Lord's-- His candlestick, His house, His body, His pillar and ground of His truth. <br /><br />My dad, who does have degrees, and would laugh at anyone caring about that when he is 65 years old, has been preaching for about 40 of those years, and doesn't base anything on where anyone attained or didn't attain "letters," pastored there in that Appalachian-area church for 14 years. Wonderful church. Tremendous people and a tremendous number of them when the size of the town was considered. By the way, the little flocks out there with the little no-name preachers, have been used of God through the last 2,000 years to keep His ministry going in this New Testament era. <br /><br />I'm not answering Paul J concerning his statements about me, but I do have to say that he is very ignorant about Brunswick, Maine, if he thinks it is the backwoods. Maybe he has never heard of Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, the Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station (now Brunswick Executive Airport), etc. <br /><br />I may be an unlettered, backwoods preacher, but Brunswick is certainly not the backwoods! I'm really like a mule running in the Kentucky Derby in this city. But, I'm happy that God has drawn many people to His Son here and that He lets me (along with the other two pastors here) shepherd them. A lot of them have "letters," but they don't care about mine as long as I'm serving up the Word of God, watching for their souls, and praying for them to the glory of God. <br /><br />It really is a joy to serve the Lord in Brunswick, and in all the other places He lets me preach for Him. I love the Lord and His churches! I hope Paul can grow in grace and enjoy the good blessings of God in whatever church, urban or suburban, big or small in number, that the Lord has him in.Bobby Mitchellhttp://www.midcoastbaptistchurch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-63012228567592082682014-04-01T01:56:55.161-07:002014-04-01T01:56:55.161-07:00Why give Paul J a voice? :)
It's funny. Comm...Why give Paul J a voice? :)<br /><br />It's funny. Comments on SI (and often the articles) always seemed to spend more time criticising fundamentalists than evangelicals. And surely, fundamentalists can use some criticism, though perhaps not always for the things said there.<br /><br />But when you asked why they focused on those things rather than the apostasy of much that goes by the name "evangelicalism," they said, "We should start by criticising ourselves."<br /><br />Fair enough, I guess. But now Pastor Mitchell comes as an independent Baptist, critiquing some of the weaknesses of independent Baptists, and they don't like it being discussed there. Do they think independent Baptists shouldn't self-critique? Isn't that valuable and important? What is the problem here?<br /><br />Could it be that the critique is coming from (as they perceive it) the right rather than the left? Well, then, don't even give him a voice, seems the message of more than one.<br /><br />I don't have time to follow all the controversy, to read the comments there or on Pastor Mitchell's blog. But I'm glad Jim's been posting those filings. <br /><br />It's said when people don't even want to have their thinking challenged. Of course, it's dangerous. You might discover something about the Scripture, you might even have to change the way you think and behave. You might >learn< something, even from someone with less education or credentials who just happened to read his Bible a lot. You never know. You might even drift to the RIGHT a little bit. Horrors!Jon Gleasonhttp://www.mindrenewers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-90717731551322333092014-03-31T19:05:51.731-07:002014-03-31T19:05:51.731-07:00Tyler,
Thanks for telling me. I maybe was able t...Tyler,<br /><br />Thanks for telling me. I maybe was able to avoid a tragic, very bad mistake. I've corrected it, but allowed the message to stand. In other words, none of the error I made is left. It is eradicated, not left on planet earth, and having the link to the article helped in this. People who knew would know then. I don't know if that means anything.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-40905762702242404932014-03-31T18:35:09.756-07:002014-03-31T18:35:09.756-07:00Bro. Brandenburg:
The comment you refer to was ma...Bro. Brandenburg:<br /><br />The comment you refer to was made by "Paul J," who is not "Paul J. Scharf." They are two different people. Tyler Robbinsnoreply@blogger.com