Fundamental Baptists: History Collapse Revival
by David W. Cloud
Nov. 2025, 161 pgs
by David W. Cloud
Nov. 2025, 161 pgs
Formats: Softcover, eBook
This new book for 2025 is my personal perspective on fundamental Baptists and how I understand the New Testament church in Scripture. It is the product of more than a half century of personal experience and discussions with a great many preachers in many parts of the world, and it is what I would like to say to every fundamental Baptist church if I had the opportunity.
The book begins with a brief history of fundamental Baptists, including the strengths and weaknesses as we see them. The next section describes the great collapse of fundamental Baptist churches over the past three decades, with large numbers of churches dying or capitulating to the contemporary evangelical philosophy and program.
We look at the collapse of fundamentalism in general and of northern and southern fundamental Baptists, including the works associated with D.L. Moody, W.B. Riley’s Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School, and a slew of others which were captured by New Evangelicalism then devoured by theological liberalism, the social gospel, humanism, Romanism, and other isms. In 1992, the old fundamentalist warrior John Ashbrook said, “The healthy fundamentalism which I knew as a student in 1948 has been almost destroyed by the infiltration of new evangelicalism. ... Wherever the explosion has reverberated, it has destroyed sound doctrine, reverent worship and holy living among the Lord’s people” (New Neutralism II: Exposing the Gray of Compromise, p. vi, 3).
We also consider Temple Baptist of Detroit, First Baptist of Ft. Worth, the GARBC, the BBFI, Trinity Baptist of Jacksonville, Highland Park Baptist of Chattanooga, Southwide Baptist Fellowship, Joyful Woman magazine, the church plants associated with West Coast Baptist College and Lancaster Baptist Church, and others.
The last two sections of the book are devoted to revival and victory in the midst of collapse, which is to build thorough-going New Testament churches. There is victory for those churches that go back to the Bible alone for the pattern of the church, that stop following independent Baptist tradition, and that stop capitulating to American culture, which Baptist churches generally have done since the turn of 20th century. We examine nine key passages of Scripture to see what a true New Testament church should be. We must reject any tradition that is contrary to Scripture and add anything that has fallen aside.
The book begins with a brief history of fundamental Baptists, including the strengths and weaknesses as we see them. The next section describes the great collapse of fundamental Baptist churches over the past three decades, with large numbers of churches dying or capitulating to the contemporary evangelical philosophy and program.
We look at the collapse of fundamentalism in general and of northern and southern fundamental Baptists, including the works associated with D.L. Moody, W.B. Riley’s Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School, and a slew of others which were captured by New Evangelicalism then devoured by theological liberalism, the social gospel, humanism, Romanism, and other isms. In 1992, the old fundamentalist warrior John Ashbrook said, “The healthy fundamentalism which I knew as a student in 1948 has been almost destroyed by the infiltration of new evangelicalism. ... Wherever the explosion has reverberated, it has destroyed sound doctrine, reverent worship and holy living among the Lord’s people” (New Neutralism II: Exposing the Gray of Compromise, p. vi, 3).
We also consider Temple Baptist of Detroit, First Baptist of Ft. Worth, the GARBC, the BBFI, Trinity Baptist of Jacksonville, Highland Park Baptist of Chattanooga, Southwide Baptist Fellowship, Joyful Woman magazine, the church plants associated with West Coast Baptist College and Lancaster Baptist Church, and others.
The last two sections of the book are devoted to revival and victory in the midst of collapse, which is to build thorough-going New Testament churches. There is victory for those churches that go back to the Bible alone for the pattern of the church, that stop following independent Baptist tradition, and that stop capitulating to American culture, which Baptist churches generally have done since the turn of 20th century. We examine nine key passages of Scripture to see what a true New Testament church should be. We must reject any tradition that is contrary to Scripture and add anything that has fallen aside.
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Every generation must go back to the very touchstone, the very true north, the perfect measure, which is the New Testament itself. Continuing the subject of revival, we examine 24 things that need to be emphasized if we are to have true New Testament churches today. We have no fear of testing any fundamental Baptist church with Scripture, for that is surely how they will be tested in the presence of Jesus Christ, the church’s one Head, Lord, and Great Shepherd. Pastors have real authority, but they are not lords and they are not to be followed blindly.
We have a great respect for God-called, biblically-qualified men of God. We want to give men the honor and obedience due them by God’s Word (e.g., Ro. 13:7; 1 Th. 5:12-13; 1 Ti. 5:17-20; Heb. 13:7, 17; 1 Pe. 5:1-4), but we don’t want to fear man and follow man rather than Scripture. At the judgment seat of Christ we will be glad insofar as we have stood for God’s Word and God’s Word alone, regardless of the reproach that we might endure in this present brief life. We will be glad if we have to be in the extreme minority for truth’s sake like Jeremiah.
Book: Softcover, 161 pages, 5.5x8.5 in.
eBook: PDF format. Same size and layout as the printed book.
eBook: PDF format. Same size and layout as the printed book.
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