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I Timothy 3:15
 

 

Reader Feedback

Received by email

January 2013

 

Pastor Reaves,

 

Hope you’re doing fine in Brandon, CA. I’m sure it’s quite frigid this time of the year compared to the tropics of the Philippines. We greatly appreciate you, your ministry, and the publication of the Baptist Pillar over the years. I have downloaded all the Baptist Pillar articles through December, 2012, and had them printed at a cost of $10 per set. Almost all members bought a set. They love it and they thank you very much. This will give them something to read that will be of great benefits to them. Thank you very much. God bless!

 

Missionary J. B.

Philippines

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Received by email

December 2012

 

I have read a few of the tracts and articles and like what I’ve read. I want to encourage you to keep up the good work. May God bless your labors and stand for scriptural truths. Not many now days stand with the truth that is taught in the KJV.

 

I am a Missionary Baptist minister. I believe in the Lord’s N. T. Church. I do a lot of reading and studying about the “Lord’s Church.” I’m preparing a study upon the N. T. Church. I been preaching a few sermons about it. I hope to preach many more in the days to come. Many people do not understand what a N.T. Church really is. I want my children and grand children to understand what the Bible teaches about the N. T. Church.

 

I like what I read in the tracts and articles. My question is, can I copy and print these, or do I need to order them from you? If you would let me know it would be greatly appreciated. Your in Christ.

 

Bro. V. A.

Misssouri

 

Editor’s Reply:

 

Feel free to copy and print as you need. This site is intended to be a blessing and service to all, and especially to our fellow Independent Baptist missionaries and pastors.

 

 

 

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Received by email

October, 2012

 

Pastor Reaves,

Just wanted to send you a quick Amen! Just read "Hireling Missionaries: America, You Can Keep Them"

I have much to say about it because I've seen the same things in New England and the Southeast USA. But suffice it to say it's a sad state of affairs which continues to perpetuate itself. The leaders of "associations" of Independent Baptists come up with new "ideas" all the time and their followers jump on the bandwagon because it's the latest and greatest way of "ministering". What about the old fashioned
way? Go to the Book and do it the Bible way.

Anyway I was doing some research, compiling info on the field of Canada, and came across your website. I Pastor an Independent KJ Bible Baptist church in Alabama, but I was raised in Quebec and Massachusetts. Thanks for your commitment to our Lord!

Matthew 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Bro. A. C.
Alabama
 

 

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Received by email

January, 2012

 

I was searching on legalism because a friend of mine from church asked me what I thought about her sister getting a tattoo and she is also a Christian. My friend was livid and was using scripture in Leviticus to show her it was wrong.

I had explained that we are no longer under that covenant and that she needed to understand the context of why they were told that. (Pertaining to the dead),and I was just wondering what is your opinion on tattoos, ear piercings and things of this sort, as this does not directly deal with the law of Moses, is it then being legalistic?

 

      DK

 

Editor’s Reply:

 

I emailed DK the article, “To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo” (Parts 1 and 2 appear in our February articles), in response.  Here is her response to reading the article:

 

 

Wow, wow, wow thank you so much for that article! That was exactly what I was looking for. It contains more of the in depth historical connections with tattoos and the occult. That is a very needed article to be circulated among the church today, I believe that people are not only being caught up in every wind of doctrine within heresy churches that are everywhere but also thru these kind of practices. I’m concerned for this young girls heart and what may be going on in her life that led her down this path, she lives in another state and I've only been able to visit with her once, but she was very receptive. I may have to see about getting her email and sending that article to her and see if that may change her rebellious spirit.

 

Thanks again,
DK

 

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Received by email

January, 2012

 

I've just spent a few hours on your website and enjoyed many of the articles I read. I even printed out a few to share with friends. Your article on hirelings gave me some uncomfortable feelings even though I recognize that there are hirelings on the mission fields and in the pulpits in the States.
 

I feel the article, when read by a layman, could dampen the spirit of missions thus hurting the cause. I speak from experience after 39 years with World Baptist Fellowship Missions in Honduras.

God bless you in your work in Canada. May the New Year be the greatest in
your ministry.

JDF

 

Editor’s Reply:

 

My purpose for writing the article was more to warn churches to be careful who they are sending to the mission field. Many that they are sending could not be called as many of those sent to Canada have done more damage to the cause of Christ than good. Thanks for writing and for your encouraging e-mail.
 

 

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Received by email

December, 2011

 

I’m happy to see y’all are updating your web site. I’m an old country pastor from Arkansas & shortly after getting a computer years back, & Internet connection, I found your site. I’ve read many of your articles & must say I enjoyed them much. Also quite often I will reference many of your article to my computer friends for your article are written quite good & are right on with what God teaches us throughout the Bible.

 

It so disappointing what many of our brothers & sisters, & I am speaking about our Baptist brothers & sisters are teaching theses day. Nothing at all like the old country Baptist Church my mother raised me in. It seems these day most of them call their self protestant while having no knowledge of the people called Baptist. Will accept any baptism, any church letter, no matter what church the church teaches. While teaching the most important thing is to attend church, it matters not what church you attend, just as long as you attend a church.

 

Keep up the good work, I know your web site with its resources is a wonderful thing to have on the net & it will help many to keep following Jesus closely.

 

In His service,

Jerry

Joshua 24:15 ‘And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve .... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.’

 

Editor’s Reply:

 

We really appreciate your email of encouragement. Please keep on praying for us - that we will remain steadfast, and to not compromise like so many others have. We hope that the Lord will help us to continue to be a blessing to you and our other readers.

 

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August 2011

 

Dear Pastor Reaves:

 

I just wanted to take a minute to write to you and thank you for your message "Compromise: A Dangerous Trend."

 

My husband and I are trying to find a church and we have been visiting a few, and taking the Pastor out for dinner to ask him his stand on Bible doctrines, etc. I cannot tell you how hard it is to find a good, independent, fundamental, KJV, separated Baptist church today!

 

We found one we thought we'd join and we got talking to the Pastor and they were right on with everything except personal separation. My husband and I took some time to think about all the Pastor said at that dinner, but we came to the conclusion that we shouldn't have different views of separation than our Pastor.

 

My husband and I were students at ___ in 1995-1996. At the recommendation of my husband's Pastor we started going there. He said they had kind of gone astray but seemed to be finding their way back under Dr. ___.

Well, things were pretty bad when we were there and one day my husband came home from work (we lived in the married dorms) and said, "If they change the rule of personal separation like I think they are about to do, we're done here!"

 

The next day (a couple days before Christmas break), there was a note in my mailbox changing the rules.. I went to my Pastor in MO (where my husband and I were serving in the Teen Department) and asked him what as a woman, I could do. He told me to write letters to the President and to the Trustees-Pastors in charge. He got on the phone, as well, and tried to call all of them he could to voice his opposition. I wrote the letters. I got three back in the mail. No other response. I got a phone call from Dr. _____'s son chewing me out and calling me a legalist. He told me I was not in God's Will and I should not be judging other people. Lastly, he told me that me and my husband were forbidden to step foot on the campus ever again. My husband's home Pastor (who is a well respected old Pastor of the faith) was told to "sit down and shut up" a few months later in a fellowship meeting when the topic was brought up for discussion.. Needless to say, my husband and I moved out the same weekend that we received the note in the mailbox.

 

We quit _____ (we already had graduated from an IFB college in Illinois). We have been down to _____-on several occasions (we have family there), and we drive past the College on _____ and can't believe what we see. There is no difference between ___ College and ____  College or any other secular school. It's such a shame! I know LOTS of Pastors and people in the ministry who went there. My own home Pastor went there before coming to  Wisconsin to start a church. The church that I was saved and raised in.

 

I say all of this because I HATE seeing the direction that this is all going. I agree with the fact that it seems once personal separation is compromised, other things follow suit. It breaks my heart! Thanks for the message and for "sticking by the stuff". It makes it easier to not make the compromise when you know there are other people out there who DO STILL believe in what's been taught and practiced for years from the good, old Bible! Thanks again!

Sincerely,

R. M.

 

Editor’s Reply:

 

Thank you for your encouraging. One does not have to look far to see that the walls of separation are crumbling all around us. At The Baptist Pillar we continue to warn Baptist churches and Christians about the dangers of a lack of separation. Praise the Lord that there are people like yourselves who are willing to suffer unfair treatment in your commitment to honour and obey Jesus Christ. God bless.