REGARDING FUNDAMENTALISM

The FBF believes that there is a subtle undermining of historic fundamentalism by definition; that a true fundamentalist not only believes in such fundamentals of the faith as the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture, the incarnation, virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, bodily resurrection and glorious ascension and second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the new birth through regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the resurrection of the ungodly to final judgment and eternal death, and resurrection of saints to eternal life, but also exposes and separates from all ecclesiastical denial of that faith and refuses to be tolerant of believers who are tolerant of unbelievers; we believe that those who hide their "soft" stand on separation by hiding behind what they term "the modern fad of secondary separation" espouse a position that will eventually destroy historic fundamentalism.

REGARDING THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

The FBF recognizes as dangerous the growing rapprochement between fundamental independent Baptists and groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention through pulpit exchanges, speaking together in evangelistic conclaves, having Southern Baptists to speak at schools and colleges that profess to be fundamental; believes that since the Southern Baptist Convention is filled with neo-orthodoxy and liberalism in its theological seminaries and colleges and that all movements within the Convention over "the battle for the Bible" are sham conflicts as long as those in the Convention continue to support the enemy with their gifts through the Cooperative Baptist program; we call upon fundamental Baptists to shun association with this group which daily goes deeper into the apostasy.

REGARDING ROMAN CATHOLICISM

The FBF deplores the confusion and compromise caused by those who are seeking to erase or minimize the differences between fundamental Biblical truth and Roman Catholicism; denounces statements such as made by David Wells, professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary claiming that Romanism has the best potential for fulfilling Christ's prayer for "unity," while admitting that Rome's views about Mary have not changed; denounces Inter-varsity for stating in its magazine that Romanism is a "legitimate form of Christianity"; denounces Gordon College for having a Roman Catholic Archbishop for Convocation; denounces Wheaton College and Campus Crusade for promoting Dr. Charles Malik, who while a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, is a faculty member at the Catholic University of America, declares that the Roman Church is a perversion of the Christian faith and that its central doctrine of the host is a hideous blasphemy of the finished work of Christ on the cross; encourages Biblical fundamentalists to intensify their efforts to evangelize Roman Catholics; insists that we teach members of the Roman faith to abandon the Roman Catholic Church when they profess to be regenerated by the Spirit of God.

REGARDING THE EQUAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The FBF continues to oppose the Equal Rights Movement as being unnecessary and a further tool in the hands of Satan for undermining of the American home.

REGARDING HOMOSEXUALITY

The FBF continues to denounce homosexuality as "against nature" (Romans 1:26) and those who practice it as the "unrighteous" who "shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (I Cor. 6:9-11); views as totally unbiblical the Pentecost Coalition for Human Rights which encourages local churches to accept the "legitimate claims" of gay rights, while differing with Logos magazine on its charismatic emphasis, nevertheless commends the rebuke issued by managing editor Harold Hostetler that this coalition "has transgressed the bounds of biblical decency."

REGARDING NEW EVANGELICALISM

The FBF records its opposition to new evangelicalism, the theological movement of neutralism which changes the Biblical command of separation to one of infiltration, and views with increasing concern the actions of new evangelicals, such as the conference on preaching at the Graham Center in Wheaton in June 1981, in which Dr. Charles Allen, First Methodist, Houston; Dr. S. M. Lockridge, Calvary Baptist Church, San Diego; Dr. Stephen Olford, Encounter Ministries, Dr. Oswald Hoffman, the Lutheran Hour, and Dr. T. W. Wilson, Billy Graham Association, were brought together on the same platform: and the American Festival of Evangelism to take place in Kansas City, July 27-30.

REGARDING ORAL ROBERTS

The FBF commends Dr. S. Duane Bruce, Methodist minister, who denounced Oral Roberts' assertion that he saw a 900-foot image of Jesus stand before him as "fabrication" and stated that "the United Methodist Church has no business giving encouragement to this man (Roberts) and this empire. . . ."; we commend Nebraska Bishop Monk Bryan who said that "Mr. Roberts is an entrepreneur in religion and has built around his name and his person quite a considerable enterprise there in Tulsa" and called upon Methodists not to give encouragement to "anyone who bases his ministry on vision."

REGARDING THE MINISTRY OF THE SWORD OF THE LORD

The FBF acknowledges the tremendous contributions that The Sword of the Lord has made to evangelism and personal soul winning over several decades, commends the new editor for refusing to appear at a religious meeting with a Roman Catholic; but views with great dismay the current editorial policy of stoutly defending the New Evangelical practices of the Jerry Falwell ministries and the religious ecumenism of the Moral Majority; and urges a return to the editorial policy when rebuking Billy Graham, denouncing the lack of separation of the new evangelicals, and "Weniger's Words of Warning" were normal fare.

REGARDING THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT

The FBF exposes the modern day charismatic movement as a counterfeit of true Biblical Christianity and as the catalytic agent for a one-world church of Antichrist; condemns it as subjective and experience-centered rather than objective and Scripture-centered, and warns Bible believers against charismatic ministries such as Pat Robertson and the 700 Club, LOGOS publishers, Melodyland School of Theology, and the Full Gospel Business Men's Organization.

REGARDING EXCELLENCE IN GOD'S WORK

The FBF believes that the current climate in America is characterized by and promotive of slovenliness, carelessness, mediocrity, and caters to the base and indifferent qualities of man's fallen nature; and therefore goes on record as encouraging those engaged in the work of God in churches and schools that they seek for the excellence that is worthy of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords whom we serve.

REGARDING LIBERATION THEOLOGY

The FBF identifies with the oppressed and downtrodden of the world, but rejects so-called liberation theology as operating in a thought-world totally opposed to that of Biblical Christianity and that it has been developed in association with Marxist revolutionary movements.

REGARDING CRITICISM

The FBF believes that we should speak the truth in love and that we should exercise caution in accusing brethren, but views as unscriptural the attitude that we should never criticize another "Fundamentalist," since today many parade under the banner of Fundamentalism who are not truly fundamentalists and because of the example of Paul who challenged Peter publicly. (Galatians 2:14)

REGARDING A. C. E.

The FBF views with alarm the A.C.E. school program throughout the nation, in that they have become affiliated with charismatics, New Evangelicals, and other non-separatist elements in their regional rallies, and commends those using A.C.E. materials, who seek to maintain a separatist posture.

REGARDING MUSIC

The FBF rejects the sensual trends of the religious music of today because it contradicts and nullifies the spiritual emphasis of preaching and teaching ministries of the church; opposes the superficial and carnal fruit produced by this music; opposes all such music that incorrectly places the emphasis upon the physical instead of the spiritual and that has roots in the world instead of the Bible.

REGARDING EVANGELISM

The FBF believes that every Christian is commissioned by the risen Christ to be a witness to the Gospel of Christ to lost men everywhere and to plant New Testament churches; calls for increased concern and compassion for the lost; urges every individual and church to work for world evangelization; but deplores the attitude of covering a lack of Scriptural separation under the guise of "winning souls."

REGARDING THE JERRY FALWELL MINISTRIES

The FBF rejects the claims of the Jerry Falwell ministries as being in the mainstream of historic Fundamentalism and sees a digression from Fundamentalism by definition; therefore, we properly categorize these ministries as New Evangelical and substantiate this by the appearance of prominent Southern Baptists and representatives of new-evangelical Campus Crusade on the platforms of Falwell's church and educational institutions.

REGARDING BASIC YOUTH CONFLICTS

The FBF expresses concern over the ministry of Bill Gothard and Basic Youth Conflicts and calls upon Fundamentalists to exercise caution in condoning or cooperating with a ministry that has never identified with the cause of Biblical separatism.

REGARDING CHRISTIANS IN GOVERNMENT

The FBF believes that government as ordained by God for the purpose of protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, that good government is the will of God, and the Christians have a responsibility to be active in governmental matters as the salt of the earth, but continues to view with alarm movements such as the Moral Majority which while disclaiming to be religious confuses the fundamentals of the faith in the minds of the general public by bringing together Catholics, Jews, liberal Protestants, Mormons and Bible believers in a quasi-political union, we believe that the saving of America's morals is a mere cosmetic treatment of the deeper problem of sin; of correcting the nation's morals gives the false impression that America's ills would be solved if her morality were reformed; that moral reformation is not the mission of the churches, but, instead, the preaching of the saving grace of Christ which takes care of man's sin problem by which man's morals become correct; we, therefore, repudiate the false impression and the ecumenical union being promoted by the Moral Majority as unscriptural and therefore unworthy of consideration and cooperation by Bible-believing people.

REGARDING THE NATIONAL MILITARY POSTURE

The FBF is on record as to being supportive of President Ronald Reagan's plans to restore to our nation the military capability to cope with any international crisis that may arise at any time at any place and to maintain our military superiority in our place of leadership in the free world.

REGARDING THE RESTORATION OF ECONOMIC SANITY

The FBF is on record as being supportive of President Ronald Reagan's curtailment of giveaways of the liberal, social welfare state and the restoration of individual responsibility and the dignity of the initiative to work, while he is endeavoring to restore economic sanity to our nation.

REGARDING HANDGUN OWNERS RIGHTS

The FBF is opposed to the mass hysteria that is engendered by the liberal communications media with regard to the ownership of handguns by decent, law-abiding citizens for recreation, hunting and the protection of property, possessions and family and as a deterrent to crime; that we call upon the courts to hand out much stronger sentences for criminal offenses. We feel that handgun control would be another step in the systematic dismantling of our Constitution.

REGARDING IMMORALITY IN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

The FBF is on record as deploring the political graft, the immoral lifestyle and the total lack of statesmanship that has been demonstrated in the lives of a number of our state and national legislators, many of these disgraceful situations having been carried before our nation in the public press and the communications media, and realizes that we have arrived at a dangerous day when the destiny of our nation is influenced by the thinking and the decisions of some who are nothing more than political "playboys."

REGARDING THE SCRIPTURES

The FBF desires to be on record as declaring our belief in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the Bible; that we reject the books known as the Apocrypha as not being inspired; that we condemn paraphrases such as the Living Bible and Good News for Modern Man and the products of unbelieving and liberal scholarship such as the Revised Standard Version, and recognize the unique and special place of the Authorized (King James) Version in the English-speaking world; that we affirm that the Bible is inerrant, infallible and is the final authority on every issue that arises with regard to faith, practice and doctrine; that we express our great concern over the thousands in the Southern Baptist Convention who consider Biblical inerrancy an unimportant matter, a matter inferior to the mandate of world evangelism, since there can be no true world evangelism without an inerrant Bible.

REGARDING THE CALIFORNIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

The FBF deplores the continuing program of ecumenicity carried on by the California Graduate School of Theology through their seminars and summer sessions, where they regularly bring together leaders from the American and Southern Baptist Conventions, the United Methodist Church, promoters of the Billy Graham Crusades and other new-evangelical leaders, such as in the 1981 Summer Session where two of Dr. Jerry Falwell's associates are listed on the faculty along with the pastor of the largest church in the American Baptist Convention and the Executive Director of the Robert Schuller Institute for Successful Church Leadership.

REGARDING DR. G. ARCHER WENIGER

The FBF sends its prayers and greetings to Dr. G. Archer Weniger, long-time President and currently Research Secretary of the FBF, who is unable to attend this meeting due to illness.

REGARDING OUR HOSTS

The FBF wishes to extend its thanks to the people, Pastor, and staff of the Tabernacle Baptist Church for their wonderful hospitality.

Respectfully submitted,
James Singleton, Chairman
Rod Bell
B. Myron Cedarholm
Al Dickerson
Homer Massey
Wayne Van Gelderen