Do not allow your child to attend a modernistic church which would break down his faith in the Bible and in Christ. There are churches in cities and towns all over America that are not worthy of the name. They call themselves churches, they claim to be Christian institutions, yet they do not believe any of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible, they do not have any of the essential characteristics of Christianity. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 315]
A man who does not believe that Jesus is the virgin-born Son of God, does not trust in the atoning death of Christ for his salvation, is not a Christian even though he may wear priestly garb and stand behind a sacred pulpit and pretend to preach the gospel. All modernist preachers, who deny the inspiration of the Bible, deny the essential deity of Jesus Christ, deny His miracles, deny His virgin birth, deny His bodily resurrection, deny the need for a new birth, deny the fact of Heaven and Hell, are, in the words of Jesus Christ Himself, "blind leaders of the blind." They are "false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves" (Matt. 7:15). To sit under the influence and teaching of such men in the pulpit is a sin. It is painful and wrong for an adult who is already truly converted. It is utterly disastrous and inexcusable to leave a child to be influenced by such an ungodly pretender to Christianity. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 315]
2 John 1:10-11 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
It is wrong to support infidels, deniers of the deity of Christ, with your money or with your presence. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 316]
We are not to be unequally yoked with the unconverted [2 Cor. 6:14-18].
Certainly that would mean that in any spiritual context we are not to have fellowship with enemies of Christ and the Bible, deniers of "the faith," those who do not hold to the historic Christian faith. We are not to receive them in fellowship as Christians, not support them as prophets, not receive them in our churches for membership, not receive them as teachers in our colleges or seminaries, not promote their ministries or their books or their institutions.
And since marriage is also a spiritual institution, we are commanded not to yoke up with unbelievers in marriage. - John R. Rice [I Am A Fundamentalist, pg. 23]
When I say we should love good Christians and have fellowship with them, I do not mean fellowship with infidels, fellowship with modernists, fellowship with liberals. I do not ask from others nor do I offer them fellowship if they do not believe the Bible is the very Word of God, if they do bot accept that Jesus Christ as the virgin-born Son of God dying an atoning death, raised bodily from the dead, coming again. I am pleading for fellowship with Christians, not with any of the Devil's crowd, not with false prophets and false cults. - John R. Rice [I Am A Fundamentalist, pg. 32]
The Bible has so clearly warned us against being yoked up with unbelievers and having fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, that I urge you solemnly, do not count a man a Christian when he does not hold to the historic Christian faith. Even if the man is a bishop in your denomination, or a professor in a seminary of your denomination, I beg you, never support him, do not give him a penny that endorses him, do not count him a Christian, do not support him nor condone his sin.
But with born-again, Bible-believing Christians, I urge you to have fellowship. - John R. Rice [I Am A Fundamentalist, pg. 32]
Christians should not attend churches that deny the deity of Christ, that deny the inspiration and integrity of the Bible, that deny the essential tenets of historic Christianity. And if you bring your children up in such an atmosphere, in such a modernistic church, you may be responsible for the eternal damnation of their souls, and you are almost certain to have a part thus in the wreck of their faith. Do not take your children to a modernistic church and do not allow them to go.- John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 315-316]
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