Reclaiming Authentic Fundamentalism

I am currently reading (among other books) Reclaiming Authentic Fundamentalism a book by Douglas R. McLachlan, the current pastor of Fourth Baptist Church. I am providing some quotes from chapter three (3) Rediscovering Authentic Evangelism. I think these are excellent thoughts.

“Excessive Calvinism almost always ends in dead fatalism”. It is pointed out that this is a result of an unbalanced view of divine sovereignty and I agree. “Among other things, this constitutes a failure to see that [the] sovereign God is free to ordain not only the end but means. And the means is urgent Christian witness by all the members of the body of Christ.” (Thoughts from p.63)

"If excessive Calvinism terminates in a dead fatalism, then excessive Arminianism terminates in a destructive fanaticism. People grow frantic and humanistic. The result in such contexts is the generating of a great deal of heat and very little light. If it is all left in human hands, then whatever works becomes permissible."
(Thoughts from p.64)

The authentic Christian witness is marked by "...a quiet confidence because he recognizes [the] divine sovereignty in which God is at work. And he is marked by an energetic activity because he acknowledges a human responsibility in which man is obedient to the divine command to be at work.” (Thoughts from p.64)

I do wish Fundamentalists would invest more time evangelizing then debating evangelism.

In His fellowship,
Brother John

BTW please read my current post at The Earnest Contender's Theology Page, thanks.