Quite a lot of questions! Ok, first, regarding ‘standards’, I would say it depends. While I might be comfortable doing some things with a guy who holds some different standards than I, I might not be comfortable in every situation. There are so many areas of standards (dress, music, activities, etc) that I think it has to be approached on a case by case basis. The fact is that in some of these things I am less strict than some of my fundamentalist friends, but in others I am more strict than many. So your question on standards is not easy to answer without specific examples.

To my knowledge, we are not using anything by the emergent crowd. If I discovered that we were, we would get rid of it immediately.

I think most fundamentalists these days would support expositional preaching. Many (but not all) would be willing to cooperate with others who are not independent Baptists (but that depends on a number of factors as well!) Most of my fundamentalist friends are not KJV only, including me. I have a few KJV only friends who apparently tolerate me to some extent.

I read someone the other day who talked about a “sliding scale” of separation. I agree with the concept, but in many cases our applications could be different.

But we are drifting a little bit from my topic…

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

Between you and Phil Johnson’s post, separation and fads. Do you separate from the brethren because you believe they are not totally involved in biblical standards, or on the other hand are you using material that is written by someone who is tagged as a Emergent.

I generally never side step any question, which is not always smart, I guess.

What would my fundamentalist friends think of that? I know what they think! It holds little weight. I know what they think of me as a pastor, or preacher. They don’t like that I preach expositional, they don’t like it that I like non independent Baptist. They don’t like it that I am not an KJV only. The seminary doesn’t like it that I support another fellowship. There is a lot of “I don’t like it.”

i would love to speak in any college on the history of Fundamentalist Baptist.

Thanks brother