{"id":1502,"date":"2009-10-13T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/10\/13\/lets-check-out-of-movements\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T07:02:19","slug":"lets-check-out-of-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/10\/13\/lets-check-out-of-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"let’s check out of movements?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Doran gives us more<\/a> concerning the fragmentation and death of the fundamentalist movement as such. There is a good deal of truth to his observations concerning the lack of unifying goals and the center of biblical focus for Christian unity and ministry.<\/p>\n

He concludes:<\/p>\n

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The center of God\u2019s will for this dispensation is in the local church (1 Tim 3:15). That\u2019s where the unity of the Spirit is to be preserved in the bond of peace (Eph 4:3). The local church has been charged with the task of carrying out the Great Commission (since baptizing is an ordinance of the church). The movement that ought to matter most to us is one that aims to plant churches that will reproduce in every place where the name of Christ has not been named, and that movement must spring from local churches in order to be biblical. Sign me up for that movement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I once met a preacher who told me that he wasn\u2019t much for going to conferences and getting known. He just preferred to stay home and \u201choe corn\u201d (he pastored in the Midwest).<\/font><\/p>\n

So in light of this non-movement movement sentiment, I wonders:<\/p>\n

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