This morning was a sad moment to find out about the news coming out of First Baptist Church of Hammond,
IN, but even sadder to say, it did not take me by surprise. I attended
that church when I was attending their college for one year back in the
1990's. Jack Schaap was the most admired man next to Dr. Hyles
himself. I heard him at many youth conferences challenging young people
to give their lives to serve Christ in the ministry. Again, the world I
grew up in during my adolescence has been resurrected from the past as I
witness the demise of the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement. The
fruit of the IFB movement continually proves to be rotten. For those of
my IFB friends that are sure to mourn this terrible news, I am afraid
that they will simply chalk it up to an isolated incident that was
simply his choice and that he just got tempted in a rare moment of
weakness. I will be first to acknowledge, that when I first heard this
news, my first reaction was to go to prayer and beg God to protect me
from ever sinning in this way and disgracing His name.
I am the first to
fear and tremble when I contemplate this warning in Scripture:
1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
What needs to be taken heed as well is what we think we're standing on!
The IFB movement is a very ill part of the Body of Christ and those who
are committed to it need to wake up and understand that there are deep
rooted problems that make stories like this one and the 20/20 piece last year a regular occurrence. Continue at Reforming Baptist
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