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| 3. Fundamental Integration -> New Testament Greek -> Fellowship |
Fellowship Aided THIRD, the fellowship and growth of the members of today's Fundamental churches could be helped.
Some people are arrogantly beyond the original Greek scriptures saying they will take the word of someone else who is a Greek scholar. People who do deductive thinking see no illogic in this type of excuse. This whole sad blinded obstinacy among these so-called Fundamentalists directs or defines the individual's walk with His Lord in His Word to a matter of consenting to their false translation dogma (the assertions that the KJV translation is without error and must not be corrected). Their fellowship is based on agreement with them in this matter. Where is that found in scripture?
These pastors demand their dogma, instead of a fellowship of individual members discerning the subtle meanings as each feed upon the Living Word themselves and are each taught by the Spirit (1 Jn. 2:27) in their fellowship, regardless of secondary issues of each member. Love is to be the bond of our fellowship, not obsequious service to such lord's over His flock. Only then will the church come to the place originally intended and described by Paul when he said, "For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be encouraged (1 Cor. 14:31).
With this predefined agreed dogma of English translation, the so-called Fundamental church is no more a place where fellowship requires each to be studying the Word and thus contributing in each meeting. Church is now little more than suffering through a topical lecture by a so-called pastor-teacher who most often doesn't compare scripture to scripture with inferential reasoning in anything he says, even if he quotes scriptures often.
Reasoning together with each member of His Spiritual Body contributing one to another of the spiritual depths upon which each feeds with given individual insights is largely unknown in the church today. Fellowship is no longer in His Word directed by His Spirit, teaching from within each individual, allowing each to so prophesy and contribute "that all may learn, and all may be encouraged. (1 Cor 14:31)."
Today, the pastor is the one and only one who must be looked to for spiritual intelligence. All responsibility in Christ's Word is preempted from the members. This is not the early church of Paul's day, nor through the centuries among non-Catholics believers. Today, in each Fundamental church each member is only required to give obeisance to the pastor, and he had better do that or he will suffer the pastor's wrath.
Observing 1 Peter 5:3, "neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock," would go against the flesh of most every pastor today. Some have defined fellowship today as two or more people in the same ship. And that is about it, a robot slave ship, and all of them swaying and clapping to the voodoo jungle beat in what they call worship. How sad. No wonder the churches are generally spiritually dead today.
All this is within so-called Fundamentalism because today's church (the pastors and individual members together) do not seek truth in His Word and Son first and foremost. When they get out of Bible school and are forever ruined by deductive thinking , they think they know it all. The flesh becomes so evident in the organization and functioning of the visible church today that it is wondrous to behold,"for the mystery of iniquity doth already work... (2 Thess. 2:7)." And the so-called Fundamentalism of today is laughable to the devil who can accuse us to God day and night.
Most people who disagree on many excessive issues and teachings are openly and cruelly shunned and rejected. Where is love shown? In this respect, today's Fundamental church comes perilously close to being a cult, each member is required to be submissive to a "lord" pastor in all things. This by exaggeration may fulfill the sociologic definition of a cult. Whether the group also fulfills the Christologic definition of a cult by redefining who Christ is, depends upon whether it is strictly adhering to today's "grace" regardless teachers derived from Dallas Theological Seminary. They definitely fulfill the definition of a cult, since they redefine Christ in salvation.
If they are, in our opinion, they are a true cult within Fundamentalism. See the article, Cults. To fully subscribe to their teaching, you necessarily redefine Christ's nature and Godhead and, therefore, cannot be initially saved. However, as repeatedly stated, fortunately, most people in their innocence do not understand their teachings yet today, and are born again under their ministries because they innocently make Christ Lord of their life, initially with repentance. This occurs, when actually the "grace" regardless preachers themselves deny both Lordship and repentance as being necessary for salvation.
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