… Scriptura and the members’ fear of reprisals. The Church was declared ‘malignant’ so that Denominationalism, the devil’s substitute, might appear benign.
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… intention. Never refuse to preach the gospel in an FIEC chapel because you are a Strict Baptist. Denominationalism is often next to superstition. No denomination is a pure church. Never gather in worship as a denomination. Always gather as a Church.
7. Para-Church Organisations
Denominationalism leads to centralised associations and inter-denominational unions which lead to Para-Church organisations. Here we find most of our critics. Whenever a para-church is born, true …
… Hyper-Calvinist and even Antinomian, have slackened their doctrinal position, but tightened their denominationalism and closed communion stance, becoming absolute Legalists in their adherence to Neonomianism with its ‘Gospel of New Obedience’. We remember in this connection that Andrew Fuller, the doyen of our modern critics of Ryland, Gill, Toplady and Romaine, introduced Liberalism into Baptist folds but demanded of Indian missionaries Carey, Ward and Marshman that they should not …
… in the false feathers of formerly Reformed churches. Thus there is much local colour and even more denominationalism which may be off-putting for a European reader. Nevertheless, Prof. Engelsma does not seem to be aware of the great danger facing America at present from the British scene where the new Arminian face of Reformed thinking has caused far more havoc than in the States. The Banner of Truth’s present massive effort to have thousands of Iain Murray’s thinly disguised attack on …
… which few, including most Baptists, have taken up, probably because Gill breaks the barriers of denominationalism that bind most of us (see pp. 228-230). Indeed, there is something very Anglican about Gill’s conception of the church and its beliefs, which always caused Evangelicals such as Middleton and Hervey to include Gill as ‘one of us.’ This should not frighten Particular Baptists who have historically closer ties with the Anglican conception of ‘a congregation of faithful …
