“Who would like to share a word of testimony this evening?” Testimony time in a fundamentalist church is an experience unlike anything one could hope to find in the outside world. It’s equal parts performance art, spiritual posturing, and the kind of long winded delivery that you might expect after mistakenly asking your hypochondriac great-aunt [...]

Tim Challies has posted scans of a book named Soul-Winning Made Easy and subtitled (The Encounter Method) by C.S. Lovett. It’s a step by step illustrated guide to getting people saved. From the book… The controlled conversation technique is something new in evangelism and represents a real break-through in soul-winning. Older methods, dealing with excuses, [...]

I personally heard this illustration from evangelist Ron Comfort… Once upon a time, an atheist scientist discovered that there was ‘lost time’ in the cosmic record. Through some unspecified process he learns that several hours have just gone missing. His Christian friend told him he would discover the reason for the lost time in the [...]

From time to time one of my dear fundy friends (yes, I do have a few!) informs me that I am much to negative on this site. With that in mind, I’d like to share a sermon by one of my favorite fundamentalists on a topic that he loved very much. [Audio clip: view full [...]

“Worldly people know what Christians should act like better than Christians do. They know when you’re not living like a Christian!” This is an oft-repeated bit of fundamentalist lore and like most fundy lore it contains a smidgen of truth…but only a smidgen. Surely most unsaved people would say that Christians shouldn’t shoot people in [...]

Fill in the blank… If ___________________ you might be a fundamentalist. A few to get started… If you’ve ever had your pastor sign your Bible… If you’ve ever heard a testimony where someone got saved by reading the Living Bible, and you started wondering if they are really saved after all… If your children rarely [...]

The great thing about the Internet is that it brings a great diverse group of people together to collaborate, talk, and share information. Unless, of course, you’re a fundamentalist. They don’t generally like having to interact with diversity preferring rather to create their own enclaves of Christianity. With the growing popularity of social networking sites [...]

“If you stick a frog in a boiling pan of water, he’ll try to jump out. But if you stick a frog in a pan of cold water and gradually heat it up, the frog will sit there until he boils to death.” This charming bit of folks lore is used to show us that [...]

Let the child realize that you are simply representing God in the execution of the punishment. … Sometimes spanking should leave stripes on the child. … During the formative years, yea, the infant years, the child should be spanked. As soon as his is old enough to walk away from his parents he should be [...]