For independent baptist and evangelicals.?

Question

In my quest for a church home I ended up at a independent, fundamental baptist church. It differs from the churches I grew up in as they use the term "soul winning" and "visitation"; are much more prone to talk about "the old fashioned days" and genereally use the term "old fashioned"; use only the King James Bible; and the women wear only skirts. Now I know that the differences must be deeper and more theological than the ones I have listed. I have always called myself an evangelical and have attended churches in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Assemblies of God, Evangelical Free Church of America and independent Charismatic movement. I also attended Moody Bible Institute. I love this church, love the people, love the pastoral staff, but wonder if I can call myself an independent fundamental baptist. Thanks.

Answer 1

God will let you know when you are in the church He wants you to be in. One thing's for sure...it MUST be scripturally sound, and they must practice what they preach, and the love of God must be prevalent there. Pray for guidance...He won't let you down. God Bless you!

EDIT: I happen to belong to an independent Baptist church, myself, so I think you will usually find them to be Biblically sound.

Answer 2

Some independent Baptist churches are slow to modernize. This may make them seem a little backwards or old fashioned. The Presbyterian and Methodist Churches used to be the same way. Look at the tragic place our Methodist brothers have fallen to. They tried to keep up with society. The united Methodist church has been plagued by homosexual scandals for nearly 20 years now.
I think we can allow the Independent Baptist room to be a little backwards. That is whats called '...avoiding even the appearance of evil'. They may seem a little 'legalistic' in some areas, but they are clean as a pin.

Answer 3

Only you can answer your own question in regard to this. You seem to have either sought God's will by hopping from building to building, or by migration from one location to another.
The old fashioned days are when America and American evangelical churches sent missionaries around the world and spread the Word of God to people groups who have never heard. Well, there are fewer people groups who have never heard. The good old days are gone and thank goodness they are. Other countries now assume America as a Godless nation and are sending missionaries to us. No church or saint of God for that matter ever grew by looking backward. Independence is fine as long as you are willing to admit you need the body to survive. The body is spread throughout the church in America today. You will find some in the Catholic church, the Free, the Lutheran, the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, AG, so on and so forth. The body is everywhere and not in any one building. You will know them by their love and deeds. Find someone who is a true saint of God and join them in their road to Zion.

Answer 4

If you love the church and the people ad the pastoral staff, then you can consider your self a Independent Fundamental Baptist and if you agree with their theology and that they take the Bible literally, one thing I like is that they use the KJV Bible..

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 7

Honestly, I don't know much about the differences, but I can tell you that as Baptists they follow the example of John the Baptist. In other words, they consider it their sacred duty to spread the word of Jesus 2nd coming, as well as following a strict standard to the Bible's teachings.

I agree with the first answer, you sound more like a Pentacostal. I'd wonder if you'd be happy as a Baptist.

Answer 8

Forget the label. There is only one church, the Body of Christ and only those born again by the Spirit of God by the Resurrection power of Christ are members. They are found in many different groups going by many names but all are of one Spirit with one Lord. I have differences with some of my brothers and sisters in the Ind. Baptist but consider them as faithful brethren. You have found a good place I believe but like any place test in with the Word.

Answer 9

Why not the denomination or title is not important the church is the people of God and providing they are feeding you (Spiritually)
That you can love the people as outlined in numerous verses in the Bible.
That they are fulling the Great Commision (Last Chapter and last verses in Matthew)

If God is in charge of this church and the people allow him to move and do his stuff..

GO FOR IT... Don't get hung up on titles.

Answer 10

i like the church also however...
i follow the bible.
i love the truth.
You cannot serve God and man. You must decide to follow the word of god or of people.
**I am talking from experience, i was kicked out of a ind.fund.baptist church for speaking the truth in love.
I witnessed everyweek with them, and encouraged the youth department to witness also, and give out bibles and tracts etc.
I even led some services they held speaking to the elderly etc in resthomes. I was very active in church, and everyone liked me etc....however, the moment you speak the words of the living God, and it chaps someones hide-watchout.
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