This whole business of demanding that we completely submit to any preacher, Ruckman or anyone else, is part of what is wrong with fundamentalism today.
Oooo, yes, this "whole business" of
submission, that evil unbiblical "demanding" concept.
Mark 10:44: "And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be
servant of all." (kind of like how I continue to serve you numbskulls the truth in concern for your souls and the Baptist representation of the Gospel when I could easily walk away)
Ephesians 5:21: "
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God."
and it explains why so many people avoid preachers that they believe, rightly or wrongly, may try to bully them and demand their "submission."
2 Timothy 4:4-6: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."
Not every IFB group is Jack Hyles and the Trailer park bullies. I don't agree with IFBers on things like music, amish dress or their isolationist tendencies, but I don't marginalize everyone who shares disagreements with me either. It's important to have wisdom and discernment to weigh the good and the bad.