![]() ![]() No wonder the secular press has a hard time figuring Christians out. Eventually, because Southern Baptists moved in their direction theologically and politically, I learned more about the beliefs of these Independent/Bible people. They were our neighbors and we liked them, but they were a bit weird. Before Southern Baptists took a hard right theologically in the 1970’s and 80’s, these independent congregations were as different from my kind of Baptists as were the Catholics. Rachel Held Evans grew up in that world of Independent Bible churches and Fundamentalist Bible colleges. We were “pan-millennialists,’ figuring it would all pan out in the end. ![]() These Fundamentalist folks had strong opinions about such things as millennialism and dispensations that I don’t remember being important at all in our Southern Baptist world. In fact, as many things as God told us Southern Baptists not to do or believe, it seemed that their list was longer. They were against the idea of evolution, for instance. Bob Jones University was Fundamentalist, and they believed some things differently than we did. When I was growing up in North Augusta, South Carolina in the 1950’s and 60’s, the people in our church knew we were Southern Baptists, not Independent Baptists or Fundamentalists. Examined, Analyzed and & Reviewed by Marion Aldridge,Ĭoordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina ![]()
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