Pastor Of Shenadoah Bible Baptist Resigns

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Pastor Bane of Shenadoah Bible Baptist Church publicly resigned yesterday. Seems to be another case of pastor burnout. While I'm no longer a fundamentalist (at least in the Hyles sense of the word), I always said if I had to be a part of a fundy church again I would go back to Shenadoah primarily because of Pastor Bane's balanced approach. He is a Hyles guy and in general speeks glowingly of Hyles, but he differs in some areas from the typical Hyles preacher.
 
Pastor Bane came from my home state, just north of Columbus, to yours. He, along with the former pastor of Shenandoah, had tremendous impact on the pastor who was able to reach me and pull me from my carnal Christian state, helping me to grow tremendously from that unproductive Christian self, so for that I am indirectly thankful for pastor Bane and pastor Owens. It was also at pastor Bane's former Ohio church that I first encountered the culture shock of Hyles style fundamentalism, when I went to a midweek Revival meeting and every single man in the building had at minimum a shirt and tie on, with most of them having suit jackets. And every lady in the room had dresses on. I asked my pastor at the time who took me to the Revival meeting how comfortable or welcomed a lost person would feel walking in just off of the street and seeing such a drastic change of apparel to what they normally see, and he said the Revival meeting wasn't intended for those kinds of folks so I didn't need to worry about that. Left me scratching my head a little bit, but I have always been a bit of a Maverick anyway. The thing that I remember most that my pastor told me though was that he had been a wayward youth in a very dysfunctional broken home and that pastor Bane showed him what marriage should look like and gave him a sense of centeredness. He seemed like a good fella to me.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Pastor Bane came from my home state, just north of Columbus, to yours. He, along with the former pastor of Shenandoah, had tremendous impact on the pastor who was able to reach me and pull me from my carnal Christian state, helping me to grow tremendously from that unproductive Christian self, so for that I am indirectly thankful for pastor Bane and pastor Owens. It was also at pastor Bane's former Ohio church that I first encountered the culture shock of Hyles style fundamentalism, when I went to a midweek Revival meeting and every single man in the building had at minimum a shirt and tie on, with most of them having suit jackets. And every lady in the room had dresses on. I asked my pastor at the time who took me to the Revival meeting how comfortable or welcomed a lost person would feel walking in just off of the street and seeing such a drastic change of apparel to what they normally see, and he said the Revival meeting wasn't intended for those kinds of folks so I didn't need to worry about that. Left me scratching my head a little bit, but I have always been a bit of a Maverick anyway. The thing that I remember most that my pastor told me though was that he had been a wayward youth in a very dysfunctional broken home and that pastor Bane showed him what marriage should look like and gave him a sense of centeredness. He seemed like a good fella to me.
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So when he first came to Shenadoah he was sort of a unique kind of Hyles guy that was likely needed to keep the church from going bankrupt. When Owens left about half the church left, however there were still plenty of Hyles people that remained. So they needed a pastor that the Hyles people could support but also one that wasn't too abrasive so he could quickly bring new people from the community in. He always talked about you all think I went all liberal on music, because he allowed some non hymns to be sung-still very conservative just not in any hymnbook.
My first venture into Hylesland was in a large church in North Carolina. When my wife and I arrived the first time we were trying to find where to go for sunday school. I was wearing a dress shirt but not a tie and the wife was wearing pants. One of the associate pastors that was trying to help us said "did you guys just get off the bus?" I knew nothing about bus ministries at this point. I started obediently wearing my tie after that.
 
tmjbog said:
So when he first came to Shenadoah he was sort of a unique kind of Hyles guy that was likely needed to keep the church from going bankrupt. When Owens left about half the church left, however there were still plenty of Hyles people that remained. So they needed a pastor that the Hyles people could support but also one that wasn't too abrasive so he could quickly bring new people from the community in. He always talked about you all think I went all liberal on music, because he allowed some non hymns to be sung-still very conservative just not in any hymnbook.
My first venture into Hylesland was in a large church in North Carolina. When my wife and I arrived the first time we were trying to find where to go for sunday school. I was wearing a dress shirt but not a tie and the wife was wearing pants. One of the associate pastors that was trying to help us said "did you guys just get off the bus?" I knew nothing about bus ministries at this point. I started obediently wearing my tie after that.
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Yes, conformity to a social group can be a difficult task whenever it requires things of you that you don't actually have any real conscientious convictions for. In my early days of uneasy conformity to fundamentalist "standards" I began to do what comes natural as part of that process and use the accomplishment of said standards as a badge of honor (better known as "self-righteousness"), but in my true pursuit of Christ I quickly realized that such a system was fraught with failure (ie, kinda like what Luther realized before his epiphany of "the just shall live by faith"). Eventually I came to the realization that any righteousness I had, whether in the way of justification, AND sanctification, was via faith in Him and to His glory. That was an abstract but very real turn in my Christian walk. It was at around that same time that I met up with a character from this forum who was a Crown College graduate (a different breed of Indy-fundy than the Hyles type) and he told me a pithy saying about the difference between his (Crown) version and view of sanctification....he said (regarding the general Hyles outlook) that "they get the fruit before the root", meaning that they often looked first to the outward conformity to rules and "standards" as a means of achievement or recognition of sanctification rather than looking at their relationship to Christ and His righteousness imputed to their account. That may be a bit crude and generalized way of putting it, but over-all I think it fit. From that point I stopped caring about externals near as much and focused much more on my walk in the Spirit via faith, which IMNSHO was the correction in daily Christian life that I needed.
 
I used to attend Pastor Bane’s church in Ohio. At that time, he went by “Dr. Corey Bane”. Upon inquiry, he said that was an honorary doctorate from some Bible institute in Southeast Asia, I believe. I am a Caucasian man who attended with my African American fiancé (now my wife of 22 years). We were not members but were faithful attendees. We asked Pastor Bane if he would marry us and he declined based on being an interracial couple. Needless to say, I was stunned. His reasoning was that we would be “unequally yolked” and that would be a violation of scripture. I tried to explain the meaning of that passage as being spiritually yolked, not racially yolked but he did not want to hear it and escorted me out of his office. I truly hope he has matured since then and has a correct view on the subject now. I do not hold any bitterness toward the man but was just extremely disappointed that view was still being put out there in the 21st century.
 
Josomer said:
I used to attend Pastor Bane’s church in Ohio. At that time, he went by “Dr. Corey Bane”. Upon inquiry, he said that was an honorary doctorate from some Bible institute in Southeast Asia, I believe. I am a Caucasian man who attended with my African American fiancé (now my wife of 22 years). We were not members but were faithful attendees. We asked Pastor Bane if he would marry us and he declined based on being an interracial couple. Needless to say, I was stunned. His reasoning was that we would be “unequally yolked” and that would be a violation of scripture. I tried to explain the meaning of that passage as being spiritually yolked, not racially yolked but he did not want to hear it and escorted me out of his office. I truly hope he has matured since then and has a correct view on the subject now. I do not hold any bitterness toward the man but was just extremely disappointed that view was still being put out there in the 21st century.
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I was a young 30-something burgeoning fundamentalist when I went with my even younger HAC-trained pastor to a Grace Baptist revival in Delaware to hear Jack Hyles preach. That young pastor of mine had been mentored by Pastor Bane and had nothing but good things to say about him. Of course, our heroes often escape an objective critical analysis of them.

Welcome to the forum. Are you still IFB?
 
tmjbog said:
Pastor Bane of Shenadoah Bible Baptist Church publicly resigned yesterday. Seems to be another case of pastor burnout. While I'm no longer a fundamentalist (at least in the Hyles sense of the word), I always said if I had to be a part of a fundy church again I would go back to Shenadoah primarily because of Pastor Bane's balanced approach. He is a Hyles guy and in general speeks glowingly of Hyles, but he differs in some areas from the typical Hyles preacher.
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Is he a sexual predator like Hyles?
 
tmjbog said:
Pastor Bane of Shenadoah Bible Baptist Church publicly resigned yesterday. Seems to be another case of pastor burnout. While I'm no longer a fundamentalist (at least in the Hyles sense of the word), I always said if I had to be a part of a fundy church again I would go back to Shenadoah primarily because of Pastor Bane's balanced approach. He is a Hyles guy and in general speeks glowingly of Hyles, but he differs in some areas from the typical Hyles preacher.
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Well, I hope he is no longer a racist, are least.
 
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