ALAYMAN said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
No, the point is that philosophy and methods are synonymous...in the eyes of Tom's Crusaders.
And the Crusaders call that 'attractionalism'.
Except for that jail cell in the auditorium thing.
I'm sure that there are many legalistic "standards preaching" folk in the group you are referring to, and that you have witnessed it first hand. That doesn't mean that there isn't a ring of truth to Tom's concern, and that alarm is not just Tom and his crusaders, as I've shown or alluded to briefly a couple of times regarding other conservative evangelicals. You can point to the unsophisticated IFB legalists and lampoon them til the cows come home, but that right criticism don't nullify the obvious pragmatism rampant in modern evangelicalism (even in some "neos"). Go ahead (rightfully) and point to those who wrongfully hold to a model of traditionalism in Christianity, just don't throw the baby out with the bath.
I have already ceded your point...there is rampant pragmatism in hip relevant evangelicalism. I have publicly and personally confronted such...in my own small circle of influence.
But, that is NOT what Tom?s Crusaders are crusading against. You don?t have to wonder because they tell you...Josh Teis and his new fangeled followers. That are IFB?s who have sinned in straying from the old paths reservation.
Somneone once said perception is reality and I?m afraid that the perception I have of Tom?s Crusaders in the dominant perception. As I mentioned earlier I am in a FB group with many young IFB Pastors who attend Josh Teis? ?Idea Day? conferences. Their take is like mine, that it?s totally about their methods. They also feel that Tom?s motivation is to mend fences with some of the old path feathers he may have ruffled with his book. To that, I have no idea. As to it being totally about methods, I have no doubt.
