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My Personal Experience
I was saved at age 23 by God’s grace in the summer of 1973 and soon joined a fundamental Baptist church. Having grown up Southern Baptist, I was overjoyed to find churches that took the Bible seriously, that did not want to soft-sell God’s requirements for Christian living, that were genuinely zealous for biblical truth and were willing to stand for the truth and AGAINST error. I was devouring the Bible and had read the New Testament through three or four times the first few months after I was saved, and I knew that this was the type of church that God wanted me to join. There is no perfect fundamental Baptist church, and the one I joined as a new Christian certainly was far from perfect. Yet was zealous and bold for the Lord, having been established by some people who had come out of a nearby Southern Baptist congregation because they were fed up with compromise and worldliness. I was thrilled to find a home there, and they helped discipled me and helped establish a proper foundation in my Christian life.
A year later I attended a fundamental Baptist Bible School to further my education in the Scriptures and to prepare my life for the Lord’s service. I didn’t know what the Lord was calling me to do, but I knew that serving the Lord effectively in any capacity required a strong foundation in His Word. While there, I worked in the bus ministry of Highland Park Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and preached at and eventually pastored a chapel associated with that church. I was trained in soul-winning techniques that were designed to produce a high number of “professions of faith.” In practice, demanding repentance and looking for Holy Spirit- wrought conviction was not part of the technique. It focused, rather, on getting people to admit that they were sinners
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