Matthew Henry’s final sentence on Ps 81.16:
He delights in our serving him, not because he is the better for it, but because we shall be.
Huh… so he doesn’t delight in himself for his own glory? Who’d a thunk it?
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Dave Doran gives us some thoughts on movements in general and the fundamentalist movement in particular.
In general, I think he is right. For a movement to exist, you have to be moving somewhere.
Given this understanding of movement, it is also correct to say that there is no longer a new-evangelical movement. But it isn’t correct to say there are no new-evangelicals or no new-evangelicalism. The philosophy is alive and well and expressed by many evangelicals repeatedly. It won’t do to say that new-evangelicalism is dead simply because the movement has ceased.
Among fundamentalists, there does seem to be a movement to push fundamentalism into some kind of alliance with evangelicals. We have been calling this movement the ‘young fundamentalists’. Some of us have been resisting this movement. Speaking for myself, my resistance to this movement is largely due to the fact that I don’t think the YFs truly understand either fundamentalism or evangelicalism and the entrenched divisions between them.
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