Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

disobedience to the commands of the Spirit, deprive the Spirit of one ofthe God-ordained means by which He, the Spirit, performs His promise!It cannot be sidestepped, the biblical imperative exists which makesnecessary the judgment of the doctrinal orthodoxy or heterodoxy ofthose to whom an evangelist contemplates entrusting the lambs of God.The evangelist does not discharge his duty by allowing liberals whocooperate with him to take any of these little ones into their folds. Hecan only discharge this obligation (John 21:15) by refusing to allowmodernists to cooperate in the work of the Lord and thus by example notapproving of them, and by warning the lambs of the unbelieving oneswho would as grievous wolves kill their souls with unbelief if allowed(Acts 20:26-31).On Dr. Ferm’s speaking of a “. . . cooperative effort, where theGospel is to be preached without restrictions of any kind, . . .” it mustagain be asserted that in a “cooperative effort” which finds aconservative preacher sponsored by many who are liberal, there is atremendous restriction! 10 That restriction is the understood agreementthat the one who is sponsored will not attack his sponsors, which in thiscase effectively means that he will not denounce the unbelief ofmodernism as sin, he will not cry “Woe” unto the “blind leaders,” and hewill not warn the sheep and the lambs of Christ to beware of theinsidious dangers of false prophets as did the Lord (Matt. 7:15) and theApostle Paul (Acts 20:26-30).As to the alleged impossibility of the evangelist’s deciding upon thedoctrinal soundness of churches and workers who wish to participate inthe campaign, it may be said that a simple required signing of a creedalstatement which asserts the truth, reality, and historicity of thefundamentals of the faith would take care of this entire matter, wouldsatisfy the critics of Dr. Graham, and would discharge the evangelist’ssacred obligation to the Lord.Is it difficult to decide whether a particular church or religious bodyis sound or heretical? Dr. Graham and Dr. Robert O. Ferm declare thatthe difficulty is overwhelming. Dr. Graham has said, “No group ofministers in any large city anywhere in the world agree on whatconstitutes a sound church.” 11 Dr. Ferm declares, “. . . it would be58