The Church Split

Melinda discusses her life in the IFB from a young age, dealing with abuse, becoming a wife in the IFB, and how she returned to a true Bible-Centered life. Melinda is Will's sister and surprised him for his birthday so they took advantage of her being in town for an intereview

In this very raw episode, we interview Autumn Ward, a former member of an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church (IFB). She recounts her experience with the church, her exodus from the church and turning towards sin, and then her eventual u-turn back towards a Godly life. This episode tackles legalism, abuse, sex addiction, redemption, and grace.

With June being "gay pride" month, we thought it good to respond to this concept as both pride and the topic of homosexuality tends to divide churches. We examine the idea of a month dedicated to an identity, what identity truly represents for Christians, and how a biblical worldview can help inform us when dealing with those that pander or virtue signal to groups of people for a specific month of the year.

We have on Pastor Mike Spencer for a great discussion on pro-life and the role of churches. Mike Spencer is one of the founders of Project Life Voice and does pro-life apologetic speaking engagements for churches, organizations, and other events. This episode has no shortage of truth bombs coming from Pastor Mike; he brings a new perspective to pro-life, Christianity, pastors, and churches.

Kevin Max from DC Talk recently made headlines saying publicly that he's now an "Exvangelical". Will breaks down what Kevin appears to be signaling about his faith and his views on Christianity. This is an early response to help the Christian community be able rationalize his statements and we hope we are proven wrong about our conclusions. Its good to remember to pray for him regardless of his current position on Christianity.

In the continuation of our series on responding to King James Onlyism, Will addresses the differences between the 1611 KJV and the 1769 KJV. KJVO proponents will often say that the 1611 and 1769 are identical except for some minor font changes and typo corrections which don't affect the content at all. Will shows in this episode how reductive that statement is. KJVO advocates are left with the burden of proof not not only how the KJV is perfect, but which specific revision of it is perfect. The KJVO position gives up the entirety of textual criticism which in turn gives up such a powerful proof of the preservation of God's word.

We often talk on this channel about when to divide and when to not divide in the body of believers. Today we examine when to reconcile with those that have caused division and left. We review situations where a member is trying to entice someone back to the church that caused division in the past. We address sexual abusers and if they can repent and if we should allow for reconciliation. Will also shares some very personal stories with regard to this topic.

In this very IFB-centric episode, Will critiques an IFB dating "ministry" website and then addresses a social media post that garnered lots of attention when it called out RFP, The Church Split, and Preacher Boys.  We see the same man-made-standards in both the dating website and the post.

A back and forth on Tiktok sparked this deep dive into scripture on what "Tongues" means in the Bible. This is yet another topic Will and Brian have changed their minds on over the years. We decipher between tongues in Acts 2 and tongues in 1 Corinthians. We examine the text to see if it means tongues an in how the Pentecostal Church sees it (speaking an unknown heavenly language we term "gibberish" in the episode), a spiritual gift that no longer exists, or just simply speaking in other known languages. Check out this echo chamber challenging episode!

Will continues his sermon series on Genesis and focuses on the end of the flood and God's first Covenant with man.