We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Charles Britt, the host pastor, and to the staff and members of the Thrifthaven Baptist Church for their graciousness in hosting the 67th annual FBF meeting. Their hospitality, kindness, and attention to even the smallest details have contributed to making our stay in this city a pleasant and memorable experience.

We would also like to express our gratitude to our executive director, Dr. Chuck Cofty, and the local coordinator, Dr. Ernest Gambrell, for the manner in which they have so skillfully coordinated the organizational preparations connected with this meeting.

RESOLUTION REGARDING THE SPIRIT AND THRUST OF THE 67th ANNUAL FBF MEETING

We would like to express our appreciation for the messages delivered by the speakers at this conference. Their messages have been "on target" and relevant to the spiritual needs of our lives and current issues of the day.

We would also like to thank the brethren who presented the position papers in the "Cutting Edge" session for their arduous labors and factual information contained in these manuscripts. Having been given ample opportunity at the conclusion of the "Cutting Edge" session to register our reactions concerning the issues presented by the manuscript authors, we go on record as slating our agreement with the essential positions delineated in these papers.

As fundamental Baptists who are determined to retain this incisive "cutting edge" with regard to divine truth, we would remind ourselves, however, of the statement made by our national president that "our spirit is as important as our stand." It is our desire to glorify God both in our position and our disposition, and we pledge ourselves to maintain this important and delicate balance in our individual lives, our national fellowship, and our respective ministries. As we defend the "faith once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3), we will make every attempt to fulfill the exhortation of the apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:15 about ". . . speaking the truth in love."

RESOLUTION REGARDING DR. JERRY FALWELL AND THE PTL

Whereas we believe that the modern charismatic movement is satanic in its origin and that so-called "tongues speaking" is unscriptural in nature; and whereas since the modern charismatic movement is (a) extra-biblical in its source, (b) ecumenical in its stand and (c) existential in its stress, we reject this movement in totality and warn true believers against its satanic deceptions and delusions.

And whereas Dr. Jerry Falwell once declared that tongues were "of the devil" and that the modern charismatic movement was of "satanic origin"; and whereas this same Dr. Jerry Falwell has now taken control of the charismatic PTL corporation, disregarding his former stated position and has indicated that "no one" at the PTL "will be restrained from worshipping the Lord as he or she pleases" and also has declared that the PTL corporation is considering the addition of charismatics to the PTL board, be it resolved that we express our concern over Dr. Falwell's flagrant disobedience to the Word of God for involving himself in this charismatic "pottage."

And whereas since the PTL was built and paid for with the funds of thousands of adherents of the charismatic movement, we urge him to disengage himself completely from its control and operation and to return control to its rightful source&emdash;the charismatic movement.

We also urge Dr. Falwell to abandon his present new evangelical position and practice and to return to the historical, biblical, separatist, Fundamentalist position.

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.