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THE BREAKDOWN IN BIBLICAL SEPARATION

The standard of biblical separation is being destroyed in many professing fundamentalist churches through the compromise employed in bringing in guest religious entertainers (versus godly musicians who minister musically) who do not possess separatist convictions concerning where they appear. The itineraries of the following religious entertainers taken from Calendar Magazine, Fall 1993, validate this fact.

On Sept. 11, 1993, a religious entertainer by the name of Ray Boltz appeared at the Southside Baptist Church, Greenville, S.C. (Dr. Walt Handford, pastor), an independent Baptist church. ... On Sept. 17, the itinerary lists the same Ray Boltz as being at the First Assembly of God in Harbor Springs, Arkansas, and a little more than a month later on Oct. 29 at the Salem Church of God in Salem, Ohio.

Steve Camp's itinerary is another illustration. On Sept. 25, 1993, he was listed as appearing at the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit (a Baptist Bible Fellowship church, BBF). Prior to his appearance there ... on Sept. 12 at the Lutheran Bible Institute in Outlook, Saskatchewan. On Oct. 23, Camp's itinerary carried him to the Cathedral of Life in Canton, Ohio.

A final example if Margaret Becker. She is listed for a "Margaret Becker Youth Fest" on Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Riverdale Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, another well-known BBF-associated church. Just two days prior, however, on Sept. 21, she appeared at the charismatic First Assembly of God in Warrenton, Virginia.

By permitting these worldly religious entertainers who do not practice biblical separation to appear in their churches, the pastors of the professing fundamental Baptist churches listed above are not only weakening the fabric of biblical separatism in their own churches, but are setting precedents which will dilute and destroy the fundamentalist testimony in other churches--pastors who look to them as examples to follow (The Fundamentalist Digest, Jan.-Feb. 1994P.O. Box 2322, Elkton, MD 21922-2322, 410-392-4569).

[See various articles in the O Timothy Computer Library on "Biblical Separation."]

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