The two biggest falsehoods

[RAIDER]

Ok, you will need your thinking cap for this one.  I believe each of us can look back at our lives and identify some "falsehoods" which we believed or held to at some point in our life.  Perhaps it was something from school, church, home, or a job.  Later in life we came to realize (in our opinion) that what we held to as truth was a falsehood. 

Here is the assignment for this thread - What were the two biggest beliefs that you held to at HAC that you now feel are falsehoods?  You may have many, but you can only choose two - the two biggest in your mind. 

*As always, only one falsehood per post.

 

[Fresh Air]

The size of a man's church was a direct indication of the blessing of God on his life, of his being a good pastor, and of the fact that I ought to grant him a hearing.

 

[Fresh Air]

That great men of God worked 80 hours a week, slept little, and were rarely at home of an evening with their family.

 

[Vince Massi]

The pastor of a giant church MUST be a spiritual giant.

 

[RAIDER]

The size of a man's church was a direct indication of the blessing of God on his life, of his being a good pastor, and of the fact that I ought to grant him a hearing.

This is good.  You would hear teachers and preachers talk about "smaller' works and how God could use a preacher in these areas, but the general unwritten "push" was that numbers = blessing.

 

[16KJV11]

That expository preaching was less desirable than topical preaching.
You were considered a deeper lifer if you preached expositorily.
Hence we never really learned how to exposit the scriptures. Probably my biggest complaint.

 

[Vince Massi]

Easy believism.

Get them to repeat a prayer and they are saved, regardless of how strongly their life continues to prove that they are not.

 

[Twisted]

Easy believism.

Get them to repeat a prayer and they are saved, regardless of how strongly their life continues to prove that they are not.

My soul!  I agree with Vinny!

 

[Vince Massi]

Easy believism.

Get them to repeat a prayer and they are saved, regardless of how strongly their life continues to prove that they are not.

My soul!  I agree with Vinny!

Well, Hey, You're not a bad guy.

 

[TidesofTruth]

That expository preaching was less desirable than topical preaching.
You were considered a deeper lifer if you preached expositorily.
Hence we never really learned how to exposit the scriptures. Probably my biggest complaint.

And yet from my earliest memory most every Wed Night was expository even though it was never called that.

 

[BALAAM]

That every revision of the KJV of the Bible was exactly the same except for spelling and punctuation.

 

[BALAAM]

If you weren't one of us ( ifbx) you weren't much of a christian. We were God's elite storm troopers and everyone else was a bunch of compromisers.

 

[LongGone]

So many people got saved at FBCH because men had short hair, women didn't wear pants, we didn't go to movies, we didn't listen to rock music, our preacher was the person on earth closest to God, we went to church every time the doors were open, we never rode in a car alone with the member of the opposite sex, we sang the right songs in church and preached the rights way. Basically no one did things "righter" than us.

 

[Fresh Air]

That expository preaching was less desirable than topical preaching.
You were considered a deeper lifer if you preached expositorily.
Hence we never really learned how to exposit the scriptures. Probably my biggest complaint.

Amen.

 

[Twisted]

1.  Bro. Hyles only had one strand of hair that he wound up on his head.

 

[Twisted]

2.  Bro. Hyles could flex his arm muscles and make them dance.

 

[Jo]

The lines between worshipping God and worshipping leaders/men were blurred.

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[Jo]

It was a sin for a woman to wear slacks.

In contrast, nothing was done when the son of the pastor sexually abused young girls.

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[Vince Massi]

So many people got saved at FBCH because men had short hair, women didn't wear pants, we didn't go to movies, we didn't listen to rock music, our preacher was the person on earth closest to God, we went to church every time the doors were open, we never rode in a car alone with the member of the opposite sex, we sang the right songs in church and preached the rights way. Basically no one did things "righter" than us.

An oddity here, LongGone, is that I actually heard this explained one time.

Every year that I was at HAC, the Southern Baptist Convention declined, and the IFB movement grew. The IFBs believed and practiced those things, and the SBC did not.

 

[Baptist City Holdout]

So many people got saved at FBCH because men had short hair, women didn't wear pants, we didn't go to movies, we didn't listen to rock music, our preacher was the person on earth closest to God, we went to church every time the doors were open, we never rode in a car alone with the member of the opposite sex, we sang the right songs in church and preached the rights way. Basically no one did things "righter" than us.

An oddity here, LongGone, is that I actually heard this explained one time.

Every year that I was at HAC, the Southern Baptist Convention declined, and the IFB movement grew. The IFBs believed and practiced those things, and the SBC did not.

Granted this was not HAC, but the same mentality when the SOTL once stated that denominations always decline, therefore there was no hope for the SBC.