MEETING AT PILLSBURY BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE
JUNE 11-13, 1985

REGARDING AN AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship views, with alarm President Reagan's appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican as giving preferential treatment to a particular religious movement, one that has shown little tolerance for Baptists and Protestants when she has been in the majority.

REGARDING CAUSA

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship views the movement known as CAUSA as dangerous to the cause of Bible-believing Christianity since it is a front for the Unification Church and deceives Fundamentalists by posing as simply an Anti-Communist group. Also, meetings such as the Assembly of World Religions (McFee, New Jersey, November 15-21, 1985), sponsored by the International Religious Foundation, Inc. (established by the Unification Church) are to be condemned as promoting a false ecumenical unity.

REGARDING CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship believes that Christians must strongly resist all attempts by government to erode our religious liberties, but cautions against ungodly and unbiblical alignments in this battle with unbelievers which dilute the Gospel of Christ before the world. Further, we caution against those movements which are unnecessarily provocative with government and seem to seek unnecessary confrontations. In addition, we caution against movements such as Christian reconstruction which are postmillennial in their eschatology.

REGARDING CHURCH PLANTING

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship believes that the Bible teaches the practice of planting local, independent, separated, soul-winning churches, and encourages those who are presently planting such independent, separated, fundamental Baptist churches to continue to do so, and that we seek with the help of God to enlarge the practice of this Scriptural church planting ministry.

REGARDING FALWELLIAN FUNDAMENTALISM

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship continues to warn true Fundamentalists against the deceptive "pseudo-fundamentalism" promoted by Jerry Falwell. This movement, which works to unite Fundamentalists and New Evangelicals, was given expression in The Fundamentalist Phenomenon (edited by Jerry Falwell) and continues with the recent In Search of Unity by Edward Dobson, Associate Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church.

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship denounces all attempts to pave the way for unity between Roman Catholicism and Bible-believing Christianity, as exemplified in books such as Catholic and Christian (Servant books) and A Tale of Two Churches (subtitle: Can Protestants and Catholics Get Together?) published by Inter Varsity Press. It deplores the conversion to Roman Catholicism of Thomas Howard, well-known evangelical author and professor at Gordon College, and sees the "Race to Rome" accelerated as Jerry Falwell attempts to unite Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, and Charismatics unite Roman Catholics and New Evangelicals, the product of these unions being a one-world ecumenical monstrosity condemned by the Word of God.

REGARDING THE WORLD CONGRESS OF FUNDAMENTALISTS

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship commends the World Congress of Fundamentalists meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, August 4-8, 1986, as a worthy expression of true Fundamentalism and urges as wide an attendance as possible.

REGARDING HOLINESS

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship recognizes a problem concerning personal holiness in the area of morality among preachers of our day. We deplore not only the sin of immorality and the lack of repentance but also the tendency of other preachers to avoid dealings with this sin. We believe that compassion should be displayed in restoring the errant preacher but caution a "go-slow" approach until fruits of repentance on his part have been clearly demonstrated. The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship warns preachers to guard against a growing trend of apathy toward the magnitude and gravity of such sin.

REGARDING LIBERATION THEOLOGY

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship, while deploring the existence of oppression and poverty in the world, rejects Liberation Theology and its view that the solution to the problem lies in uniting nominal Christianity and Marxism for the purpose of the violent overthrow of repressive political structures. We reject their perverted teaching that salvation consists in liberation from oppression and injustice, that sin may be defined as man's inhumanity to man and that God is revealed only in human experience.

REGARDING NEW EVANGELICALISM

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship emphasizes its opposition to New Evangelicalism and its effort to brand as legalist those who hold scriptural standards of separation. We are opposed to the recent New Evangelical emphasis away from confronting people with the gospel to a life-style or bridge type of evangelism. We do not believe any person who rejects the Biblical doctrine of separation is a true Biblicist; therefore, we reject John MacArthur, Jr., Charles Swindoll, and others of their like who are opposed to the fundamentalist position.

REGARDING SCRIPTURAL INERRANCY

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship reaffirms its conviction that the original autographs of the sixty-six canonical books of the Bible are God's inspired Word. It is our conviction that the total inerrancy of the Scriptures is a necessary corollary of Divine inspiration. We believe when one points error of any kind to the Scripture, he impugns the Holy character of the Divine Author. We resolve to continue to expose the fallacies of the limited inerrancy position and to maintain a fellowship separate from those who espouse this unbiblical position.

REGARDING SOUL WINNING AND EVANGELISM

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship, as separated Bible believers, encourages one another to be valiant defenders of the faith (Jude 3), speakers of the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15), and abhors that which is evil (Romans 12:9). We also encourage one another to maintain a scripturally balanced ministry using Biblical soul winning methods and fervent soul winning practices both in our personal and local church ministries. We further believe in, endorse, and encourage the use of the office of evangelist in our churches (II Timothy 4:5). We further encourage one another to pray for a heaven sent, Holy Spirit empowered revival in our nation, in our churches, and in our personal lives, and that we be found faithful in the carrying out of the great commission until we are called home by our Lord Jesus Christ whom we love and adore.

REGARDING SOUTH AFRICA

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship while not approving of apartheid, regards as hypocritical the attempts made to force universities and governmental units to divest themselves from investments in South Africa, while at the same time failing to raise a strong protest against Communist aggression in Afghanistan and other parts of the world.

REGARDING TEE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship views the battle for the Bible in the Southern Baptist Convention as ridiculous while leaders such as Dr. W. A. Criswell leads his church to give more than one million dollars annually through the cooperative program, and current President Charles Stanley leads his church to increase giving through the program while at the same time deploring doctrinal revelation in Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries.

REGARDING PILLSBURY BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship wishes to commend Pillsbury Baptist Bible College; its President, Dr. Joseph A. Rammel, and staff for their outstanding work in hosting this sixty-fifth annual meeting of the Fundamenta1 Baptist Fellowship of America.

These resolutions respectfully submitted by the Resolutions Committee,

James Singleton, Chairman
Charles Baker
Frank Bumpus
Marion Fast
Greg McLaughlin