And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. –Acts 4:18 (KJV)

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. –Acts 5:29 (KJV)

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There’s about 8 million people in the Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) churches; and about 8 million people in Church of God (Cleveland, TN). Together that’s about 16 million people who still believe like Jonathan Edwards or John Wesley. Not bad! I’d like to see some joint revival services among COG preachers and IFB preachers. Think about how many more people could be saved this way: and think of what each of these types of preachers could learn from each other if they would set aside their differences.

I don’t agree with every little view and every little thing that Sword of the Lord Publishers has ever said, but I still think that in the main, they’ve got the right idea. I probably don’t agree with their following pamphlets: Lordship Salvation (Hutson), Should a Christian Drink Wine? (Hutson), Speaking in Tongues, Tongues Confusion (Hutson), Can a Saved Person Ever Be Lost?, Negro and White, and The Eternal Security of the Born-Again Believer (Hutson). As a Pentecostal I have to maintain lordship salvation (Mark 1:15), as a charismatic I can allow for moderate wine drinking every once in awhile (1 Timothy 5:23), as a Pentecostal I tend to believe that speaking in tongues is the strongest evidence although not the only evidence of a Christian feeling the baptism in the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4-20; 10:44-46; 19:6), as a Wesleyan-holiness person I believe its possible for a Spirit-indwelt Christian to lose the Holy Spirit and faith and thus lose the state of salvation (Hebrews 6:4-6; 10:26-31), and as a child of Azusa Street I believe that blacks and whites should worship together: and that segregation is an anti-Christian idea (Acts 17:26). These would be the only differences I’d have with Sword of the Lord in terms of past and present. But I’m right there with them on practically every other fundamentalist preaching conviction.