FFF Theology | Paperback + eBook Bundle
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You have seen it happen. A church splits over a fuss. A friendship ends over a fight that never should have broken fellowship. And somewhere else, a doctrine worth dying for gets traded away quietly because nobody wanted to make a scene.
Most doctrinal fights in local churches are not really about doctrine. They are about weight. A man will defend a preference as though the gospel depended on it, then stay quiet while something essential is surrendered. Nobody taught him the difference. This book does.
Fusses, Fights and Funerals Theology is twenty chapters of systematic theology from an unapologetically independent Baptist position, and every doctrine in it is weighed and labeled:
- A fuss is a preference. Believers may differ and must not divide.
- A fight is a real disagreement with real stakes between brothers who read the same Bible and reached different conclusions. Worth contending for, not worth dividing over.
- A funeral is a doctrine worth dying for. Deny it and something essential is gone.
What you will find inside
- Current errors answered by name: Open Theism, Social Trinitarianism, Progressive Christianity and deconstruction, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, Word of Faith and the New Apostolic Reformation, the attack on penal substitution, territorial spirits, gender ideology, transhumanism and artificial intelligence, Lordship salvation and Free Grace, multi-site video preaching, the seeker-church model, preterism, universalism, annihilationism, heaven tourism, and purgatory.
- A full chapter on heaven and hell, including the four words the King James Bible renders "hell" and what may honestly be said at a casket.
- The text question handled openly: preservation, the Traditional and Critical texts, what the King James translators said about their own work, and whether English can function as a source text, with the author's position stated plainly.
- Hard pastoral cases faced head on: three biblical grounds for divorce, whether a believer can be demon-possessed, confession of sin after salvation, and medical conditions mistaken for demonic activity.
- Eternal security argued, not assumed, with the strongest case for the other side presented before it is answered.
- Baptist heritage without the myths, and an honest reckoning with fundamentalism: what it got right, what it got wrong, and a case for retiring the label while keeping every doctrine it was built to defend, including a direct confrontation with antisemitism and Christian nationalism.
- Documented and usable: nearly 190,000 words, 239 footnotes, 294 sources, and a closing chapter that summarizes every doctrine with its classification.
How each chapter works
The doctrine is stated and defended from Scripture. Its history is traced where that matters. Current errors are answered by name. Practical implications are drawn for pulpit and pew. Then the chapter tells you which of its convictions are fusses, which are fights, and which are funerals, and why.
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Who is this for?
- Church members who want to know what they believe and how much weight to put behind it
- Pastors and teachers who need a doctrinal reference they will keep reaching for
- Bible college students and men preparing for ordination
- Anyone who wants to stand firm on the right things without fighting over everything
Written by an evangelist with a pastor's heart and more than thirty years in the churches where these battles are fought. You will come away knowing where to stand firm, where to extend a hand, and where to let it go.
Contents
- Author's Note
- 1. Fusses, Fights, and Funerals
- 2. Theology Proper
- 3. Bibliology
- 4. Christology
- 5. Pneumatology
- 6. Angelology and Demonology
- 7. Anthropology & Hamartiology
- 8. Soteriology
- 9. Ecclesiology
- 10. Eschatology
- 11. Heaven and Hell
- 12. Dispensationalism
- 13. Baptist Heritage
- 14. Calvinism, Arminianism, and Hyper-Calvinism
- 15. Divorce and Remarriage
- 16. Personal Separation
- 17. Fundamentalism
- 18. Worship
- 19. Concluding Thoughts
- 20. Doctrinal Summary
- Bibliography
Page count: 534
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