From The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, p. 66
In fact, try to live in a distinctly Christian “salty” way around them– in your words and actions. Make them thirsty. Make your whole life before them provocative. I sometimes introduce myself to people as being a fundamentalist, because I’m hoping there will be an intriguing disconnect between their assumptions of what a fundamentalist is and what kind of person I seem to be. Live a Christian life before them.
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27 September 2007 at 8:30 pm
Being discussed here:
http://www.sharperiron.org/showthread.php?t=6515
28 September 2007 at 6:39 am
I can see that in some situations you might use the term to engage in lively dialogue, but on the whole, since that word has come to carry such negative baggage I would use it sparingly.
28 September 2007 at 8:32 am
Jimmy,
As a pastor in the self-identified Fundamentalist “movement,” I just found this to be a strange (but refreshing) challenge. Most of the people in our movement seem almost apologetic to be publicly identified as a Fundamentalist. Dever’s strategy seems to be to introduce the term, but also let me tell you what I mean by it, AND let me also show you what it is NOT by how I live.
That’s good.
28 September 2007 at 8:55 am
I describe myself as a Fundamentalist sometimes, because to a large part of the population we’re all Fundamentalists. However, I don’t “self-identify” as one.