On the New Testament Church

[exIFB]

Does anyone notice when fundies explain why they are IFB, they always say "I don't agree with everything my pastor says, but I think the IFB are the closest to the New Testament church". Doesn't that imply that they are perfect and know exactly what a first century church was like, but noone else does, so they'll have to settle for an IFB, which is pretty close.

[amyrose5]

(05-07-2011 03:13 PM)Darcy Wrote:  Yeah, most of 'em did. And they honestly believed that our churches were the ONLY place the true church met.

My grandmother's sister, her closest sibling in age, and her husband joined a congregation when they all had young children. My grandmother and her sister were incredibly close as the two oldest daughters (there were brothers older) in a family of nine children who lost both parents while they were growing up in the Depression. When the sister and her husband got into the Church of Christ, the husband demanded that she cut off all contact with her siblings who were all mainline Protestants (Christian-Disciples of Christ, Methodist, etc...). My grandmother's heart was broken over this for the three to four years it lasted. It ended when the sister's young son was killed in a car accident and she fell apart. Her husband couldn't handle her grief and worried for her, called my grandmother to come. That was the end of the no contact. None of the siblings would have it anymore.

There was still a strained relationship between the cousins for many years. When I was a child, we lived in the same town as one and his family. They tried to convert us, and once that didn't work, there was no relationship.

Now that they are all getting older, it's not that way anymore. And most of them go to mainstream Evangelical churches now, anyway.