RESOLUTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP
Adopted on June 13, 1991, at Denver, Colorado
Believing that God is holy and that He purposes in salvation through the ministry of the indwelling Holy Spirit to bring every believer into a life of holiness conformed to the image of Christ, and believing that those who leave been divinely called to the gospel ministry are called to exemplify that holiness, and, further, being greatly concerned and burdened because of numerous moral defectors among those in the ministry,

Therefore be it resolved:

1. that the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship deplores and condemns the attitude of permissiveness plait is currently espoused In certain quarters of professing Fundamentalism that would advise adulterous pastors to simply relocate away from the place where their sin was committed, and continue in the ministry elsewhere.

2. that in order to set a standard for moral purity in the ministry in the eyes of men, arid to recognize the seriousness of marital infidelity in the eyes of God, we reaffirm our Biblical conviction that pastors who commit adultery should leave the pastoral ministry.

3. that we further condemn as wicked and ungodly the teaching emanating from some professing Fundamentalists that a holy God would have different moral standards for an adulterous minister having big numbers and many baptisms than for one who baptizes few.

4. that we strongly affirm that moral standards for the ministry should be universally applied without exception, and that personalities must never be allowed to transcend principles.

5. that we call for a return to the Biblical pattern of repentance, submission to church discipline, restoration to fellowship within the local church, and disqualification from the pastoral ministry.

6. that we, the representatives of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship meeting in Denver, Colorado, in June of 1991, call Fundamentalists back to a commitment to the moral integrity and spirituality of their ministry, rather than simply to success as measured by numbers and baptisms.