Recovering Fundamentalist

I grew up in a fundamental Baptist church. Their philosophy was basically fix the outside first and the inside will follow. WRONG!! My parents didn’t allow us to wear pants, they checked our skirt length and how low our shirts were daily using the three finger...

Brief story and questions that I would like a response to.

I have recently left an IFB church due to some hurtful things the preachers wife said to me. I have been talking to a counselor concerning a choking experience I had in 2019 and since then have had issue with not wanting to eat. What she said made me realize she...

New Fundamentalisf

I am a new Christian (saved on August 8, 2015) and I was saved and answered the call to ministry in Independent Baptist Churches. Luckily for me, I have never seen the “extremes” of legalism, but have only heard stories. I did not grow up in Church, but the times that...

Thank You

I was raised in an Independent Fundamental BIBLE Church in Southern Ohio (you know, because regular IFB would have still been associated with another group and not totally separate). I got invited to go by a friend I made when I was in Kindergarten, and this was the...

Mark

My wife and I took a group of teenagers to Bible camp each summer for years.  We brought a group of wonderful kids with a mix of church and unchurched friends to this camp after they had closed and re-opened with different leadership.  We were careful to ensure that...