The Negative Things That I Learned

kaba said:
That if I wore dresses all the time the Lord would love me more. Also heard them teach if you wore dresses all the time, the Lord would use you more!
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Kaba, I can only speak for myself on this one. I knew that these man-made standards could not be found in Scrpture, but it was explained to me that we were the largest church in the world, we were getting the most people saved and the most baptisms.  At that time, the Southern Baptist Convention was decreasing in total attendance, baptisms, and numbers of churches, while believing the same Biblical doctrines that we believed.

I was told that the difference was our stronger stand for the Bible (true) and our holier living. Now, the second one was true on the INSIDE. Our desire to be used by God caused us to embrace these rules because we thought that they pleased God. I understand now that it was that internal attitude, not external rules, that made the difference.
 
Since leaving the HAC movement, I have had to struggle with being judgemental if someone didnt do what I did! I catch myself even today, and have to stop and talk it through to myself. But God has been good!
 
They weren't accredited because they were an IFB college training full time IFB people to work in IFB ministries.  Why do you need to be accredited to do that?
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That just keeps being repeated here, and will all due deference, it is a false premise!
We are training IFB's to work in IFB ministries on the assumption that they will all be unaccredited?
Doesn't that also go against the unwritten rule of fundamentalism...if you do something, do it better...be the best?
I would say that has hurt and hindered many, many graduates of IFB's 'proudly unaccredited' schools, and still does to this day.
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
They weren't accredited because they were an IFB college training full time IFB people to work in IFB ministries.  Why do you need to be accredited to do that?
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That just keeps being repeated here, and will all due deference, it is a false premise!
We are training IFB's to work in IFB ministries on the assumption that they will all be unaccredited?
Doesn't that also go against the unwritten rule of fundamentalism...if you do something, do it better...be the best?
I would say that has hurt and hindered many, many graduates of IFB's 'proudly unaccredited' schools, and still does to this day.
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The absolute truth!  If a professor, who might be from an accredited university, came to teach at HAC, no problem.  The doors are open.  Try it the other way around, not gonna happen.

Then, of course, when you are young and in your twenties, you don't think about becoming disabled or a loved one passing away.

The IFB world can be so isolating.
 
"I read a book!" Spoken in scorn, the teacher was referring to a HAC student who went to Hyles to correct him on a doctrine. The point is that reading one book does not make you an expert. The problem?

Many Christians who are not regarded as teachers by any local congregation are teaching on the internet, and they haven't read a book. A few years ago, I moderated a forum for "Battered Sheep." I researched church abuse and read a book that someone mailed me.  Looking over the posts, I realized that the one book, alone, contained more knowledge than all of the posters combined.

Do you believe that the teachers at HAC read at least two books on everything they taught? And do you believe that those books presented a variety of differing viewpoints?

Go ahead; read a book. It won't make you an expert, but you'll still know more than most people.
 
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