Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

Biblical fundamentalism does try to keep the right rules inthe right way, because it seeks to honor Jesus Christ byexalting the Bible as the sole authority for faith and practiceand keeping it as strictly as Jesus Christ and the apostlestaught we should keep it.Biblical fundamentalism does not exalt man-made rules; itseeks, rather, to be faithful to the principles and details ofGod’s Word. When the Bible says, “Love not the world,neither the things that are in the world” and “be notconformed to this world,” the biblical fundamentalist takesthis seriously and seeks to follow the Spirit’s leading inapplying this great truth to every area of his life, includingthe clothes that he wears and the music he listens to. Whenthe Bible says it is a shame for a man to wear long hair andthe woman’s long hair is her glory, the biblicalfundamentalist doesn’t make excuses for it, he simply tries toobey it. When the Bible says God forbids a woman to teachor usurp authority over a man, the biblical fundamentalistdoesn’t try to find a way to ignore it.Saddleback Church calls this “legalism,” but it is no suchthing and one day Rick Warren will give a solemn accountfor the way he has perverted and redefined terms and set upstraw men to poison people’s minds toward those who areguilty of nothing more than loving God’s Word.What kind of “legalism” is it for a blood-washed, savedby-gracesaint to aim to preach all of the truths of God’sWord and to be faithful to God’s Word in all matters? Thoughwe are saved by grace without works, we are saved untogood works (Eph. 2:8-10). If that is legalism, Paul was agreat legalist, for he testified, “For I have not shunned todeclare unto you all the counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). By mycount, there are 88 specific duties that Christians are41