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Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral
…will inherit the kingdom of God.
–1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (ESV)–

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
–2 Samuel 1:25 (KJV)–

Where there is no vision, the people perish:
but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
–Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)–

They officially teach that homosexual behavior is sinful and they publicly oppose same-sex marriage. At the same time, these churches generally welcome people who experience same-sex attraction to attend services, hear the Gospel, and participate in church life. Their flagship college, Baylor University, now admits these perverted homosexual students to their campus and even has a FAQs page about it on their website.

They permit significant diversity on fundamental theological questions: old earth creationism (billions of years in Genesis 1:1), theistic evolution (God made Adam and Eve out of monkeys over millions of years), metaphorical views of Hell like annihilationism and symbolic hell fire are all tolerated. Much of their preaching has become more therapeutic, conversational, optimistic, and seeker-oriented than the old way of confrontational preaching against sin associated with evangelists like Charles Finney. However, they’ll always allow some fringe preachers the permission to continue to preach regularly on sin, judgment, repentance, holiness, and eternal punishment. But they’ll remain on notice and under threat of removal.

Their pastors and professors mostly hold cessationist views about prophecy, tongues, dreams, and visions. Their official doctrine strongly affirms the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in convicting, guiding, empowering, comforting, and sanctifying believers. But within a deistic and anti-supernatural bias, you’ll still find them pray for healing without expecting answers to prayer, seek God’s guidance without any direct action of the Holy Spirit, and expect the Spirit to work actively in believers’ lives, maybe by helping them to stop looking at pornography on their phones for a while. Listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit and praying for miracles are viewed as “New Age,” while at the same time many of their parents let their kids watch Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter because that’s “just fantasy” and “magic’s not real.” For this reason, C. S. Lewis is considered a great theologian, even though his writings are full of the humanistic, liberal, and metaphorical views of the Bible mentioned before. Many of their kids are put in the public schools without a second thought.

While they haven’t officially abandoned conservative Bible doctrine, they do allow for such substantial diversity, that many of their leaders have liberal and secular views on sexuality, Hell, biblical authority, creation, spiritual gifts, and support the typical soft serve preaching style. Critics from evangelical revivalist traditions argue that this broad-mindedness has resulted in a less supernatural, less experiential, less confrontational form of Christianity, than they believe characterized the earlier evangelical movements that brought the organization into being.

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What denomination am I talking about?

Billy Graham’s denomination.

The Southern Baptist Church.

There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
–Acts 2:3-12 (KJV)–

They said one to another,
Did not our heart burn within us,
while he talked with us by the way,
and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
–Luke 24:32 (KJV)–

Jacob was left alone;
and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,
he touched the hollow of his thigh;
and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint,
as he wrestled with him.
–Genesis 32:24-25 (KJV)–

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
–Isaiah 6:6-7 (KJV)–

With stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
–Isaiah 28:11-12 (KJV)–

There is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
–1 Timothy 2:5 (KJV)–

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
–John Wesley–

The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant of Scripture,
but repugnant to the Word of God.
–Methodist Articles of Religion, XIV–

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Joan Carroll Cruz, Mysteries Marvels Miracles (TAN, 1997), pp. 177, 239-240.

Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines Answered (SLP, 1970), pp. 16-73.

Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 3 (Pathway Press, 1994), Part 1.

Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water (HarperOne, 1998).

Robert Tuttle, Mysticism In the Wesleyan Tradition (Zondervan, 1989).

Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love (Penguin, 1972).

You can’t just cram billions of years into Genesis 1:1.
It just doesn’t work. There’s lots of reasons why.
–J.B.–

GREAT MESSAGE ON MORTIFYING THE FLESH.
VERY STRONG WESLEYAN-HOLINESS MESSAGE.
–J.B.–