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Every since my arrival in Romeo I’ve had the occassional random questions from the super far right fundamentalists. The weird part about this is that it doesn’t represent any thought that is currently in our little church.

Here are some examples from a few weeks ago:
- A man walked up to me upset that we were giving away Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven Life” to visitors. He said, “I heard that he told his church that they should stop reading their Bibles and start reading his book, that’s heresy!”
- This winter, our church ceased being members of the Willow Creek Association since “some people say that those churches don’t teach the Bible and never present the gospel.

Both of those statements misrepresent the truth. Both Saddleback and Willow Creek are churches I know to be good, Bible-teaching, evangelism driven, disciple-making churches.

The moment of truth:
Yesterday, while I was waiting for B lunch to end at the high school I started listening to a “new to me” Christian radio station. WRDT-560 AM I have caught some of Moody’s programs on there occasionally, so I thought maybe I’d catch something good. I was dead wrong. What I got exposed to was hate-filled fundamentalism masked under the terms “truth from God’s word.”

Why do I call them hate-filled? At the bottom of fundamentalism is a works based gospel. In order to be truly saved you have to conform to their view of everything. Clothing. Music. Christian living standards. On and on and on. They will cite Biblical passages, generally deeply out of context to prove their point. In an attempt to make their way right and everyone elses way wrong, they will take people’s comments out of context grossly. It is works based because if you don’t comply to their 1950’s view of Christianity… you are not really a Christian. They will call you a backslider or their new term “a paganized Christian.”

So….
I’ve finally figured out where all of these weird, left field comments come from! Check them out at Southwest Radio Church Ministries.

I wish I had more time for this, but I am off to take my family to the circus. More on that later!

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