Comments on: Things I Never Heard in Fundamentalism — Sola Gratia (1)

By: Daniel V.

Daniel V. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:15:15 +0000

Thanks.

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TulipGirl » Blog Archive » April Showers — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:27:52 +0000

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By: stacy

stacy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:22:32 +0000

I feel like I tend to be the dissenting voice here:) In a lot of ways I agree with you-I really do. I have grown up in all this. I still go to a church that you would consider fundamentalist. Believe it or not my husband and i have no doubt we are exactly where God intends us to be. We are learning and growing. See the thing is I heard those things in a fundamentalist church. And honestly I am hearing a tone change in fundamentalism. I am very glad for that tone change. More grace and more love. An understanding that none of us will ever have it together this side of heaven. I hear it pretty much every Sunday. Will my church ever be what you think it should be? Honestly- no. But I do think things are changing. I do hate to see so much division and I see it on both sides of the fence. Fundamentalists have their issues but there are people on the other side of the fence who do, too.
Maybe God loves and is working on all of us -both in fundamentalism and in those who have left the movement.
I know someone in a reformed church and I have noted that there are grace-filled growing Christians in both who are overwhelmed with God’s love. I honestly don’t always know who has the more correct theology. What I do know is that God is not reformed, or Baptist or fundamentalist. He is God and He is working in all of us- and yes showing grace even to fundamentalists.

By: Michal

Michal — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:33:32 +0000

Oops on the link! Still figuring that out, too!

http://www.challies.com/archives/christian-living/the-quiet-time-performance.php

By: Michal

Michal — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:31:25 +0000

I've enjoyed reading your blog as I sort through these issues in my own life. I'm a BJU grad from a fundamentalist Baptist background and am now attending a more expository Bible church. I appreciate so many of the people that influenced me in my growing up years, and I know God used all of it to bring me to where I am now. Questioning, keeping much, and sometimes leaving certain ways of thinking. This post by Tim Challies caught my eye today. I'm thinking a lot about why we "perform" our Christian disciplines and what we believe to be God's view of us as a result. I still have lots to mull over, and I think God loves to see His children ponder and search His Word always for the answers. He is bringing about our sanctification in ways we sometimes cannot understand, but we can always trust in His grace because of who He is.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:50:06 +0000

It’s amazing how such a simple truth can be so revolutionary. If only I had heard it sooner! Embracing grace is still a difficult thing to do, but what a relief that we can live with the freedom to be less than perfect.

By: Amie

Amie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:48:21 +0000

I had that moment last week at church too.

something like “if you think that your sin keeps getting smaller as you become a better Christian, then your Jesus keeps getting smaller too”

By: Dan Keller

Dan Keller — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:34:14 +0000

I, too, have found many refreshing things that aren’t in fundamentalism. What part of 7 times 70 don’t some people get? The Good News is that we have the greatest example in Christ, who forgave the people as he hung on a cross. I don’t understand this kind of unconditional love. I also don’t pretend to understand. Love like that is truly a mystery.

By: kbonikowsky

kbonikowsky — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:24:10 +0000

Woo-hoo for inescapable grace!

I remember when I first heard forgiveness explained biblically:

You sin. You go to God. You ask forgiveness. You leave. He chooses not to remember what you did ever again.

You sin. You got God. You say, “Here I am again for that same thing I always ask forgiveness for.” God says, “And what would that be?”

Every time is the first time! Praise our Savior for His dear sacrifice!