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I just read an online article by a young man (by his own description) who went out of his way to criticize most gospel preaching and singing for the last two or three hundred years.\u00a0 He believes that once preaching and singing left the Puritan and\/or Reformation tradition, it was\u00a0 down hill from there.\u00a0 Interestingly, this was all to criticize contemporary Christian music to any who use it today.\u00a0 His point was that CCM is totally pragmatic and shallow,\u00a0 but that we should not be surprised because the precursors of this have been evident for hundreds of years in popular preaching and gospel singing.\u00a0 His specific targets were D. L. Moody and his song leader Ira Sankey, Billy Sunday and his song leader Homer Rodeheaver, and especially the revivalist Charles Finney.\u00a0 The writer\u2019s own Baptist background was also roundly criticized as being non-theological, shallow, and entertainment based.<\/span><\/h1>\n

Interestingly, proponents of CCM heartily agreed with his assessment of the history and only disagreed that CCM is a direct result of it.\u00a0 Both sides did the typical venting about growing up in dead, cold fundamental churches. But, of course, they have moved away from those things now that they\u2019ve seen the error of the entire fundamental (especially Baptist),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gospel preaching, and gospel singing history.<\/p>\n

One hardly knows where to begin to reply to these kinds of charges.\u00a0 I also grew up in fundamental Baptist churches in the last half of the twentieth century and was not bored at all!\u00a0 I was saved during a church\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 invitation at eleven years old in a fundamental, gospel preaching and singing Baptist church. After I learned some things, I was baptized there when I was sixteen.\u00a0 God called me to preach and I started my ministry education directly out of high school.\u00a0 I have had my disagreements even with my home church in which I was converted\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because of its contemporary changes, but I have grown to love and appreciate my fundamental and Baptist\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 heritage more and more over the years.\u00a0 I believe that the very history that the aforementioned writer described, has been the greatest force for the gospel of Christ in the last two to three hundred years.\u00a0 Take away the souls saved, the churches built, the schools started, the missionaries sent, the revivals experienced by \u201cgospel\u201d preaching and singing over this period of time (in England and America alone), and it would be hard to estimate the spiritual carnage that would have resulted!<\/p>\n

For many of this generation (who call\u00a0 themselves \u201cyoung\u201d fundamentalists), there seems to be no place for the fundamentalism of the last\u00a0 couple\u00a0 of centuries even though it is their own history. Apparently, the only two options are to go back to a High Calvinistic, Reformed model of preaching and singing, or to go the other direction, totally beyond any historical roots to the current malaise of contemporary churches.\u00a0 But one sure thing keeps coming back from these discussions; there is no love lost on the church that most of us have known and loved and in which we\u2019ve served Christ.<\/p>\n

This article is a result of my own reflection (after reading the online article) of things I have read and places I have visited as I have learned about my fundamental and Baptist history.\u00a0 In England, especially, I have seen the truly dead liturgical Protestantism, as well as the cold history of High Calvinism.\u00a0 But I have also experienced the worldliness and irreverence of the contemporary churches on both sides of the Atlantic.\u00a0 Neither of these, in my opinion, is a viable alternative for gospel preaching and singing.<\/p>\n

John Bunyan (1628-1688)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Best known for his classic book, The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress, John Bunyan was also a powerful Baptist preacher in a time when nonconformists were persecuted by the Protestant Church of England.\u00a0 Knowing God\u2019s call upon him to preach, he refused to use the Book of Common Prayer instead of the Bible and for this he spent over 18 years in prison.\u00a0 Born in poverty, Bunyan\u2019s lowly job was that of a tinker, mending metal pots and utensils for whatever people could pay.<\/p>\n

Despite misfortunes in life, and perhaps because of them, Bunyan knew his Bible well.\u00a0 One historian says, \u201cAs in his Pilgrim he embodies more of the Bible than does Milton in his Paradise Lost, so in his sermons we find more true human nature than in Shakespeare.\u201d1<\/sup> On one of his preaching trips to London the learned Puritan John Owen heard him preach.\u00a0 \u201cWhen King Charles expressed wonder that a man of his learning could bear to listen to the \u2018prate\u2019 of a tinker, he answered, that he would gladly give all his learning for this tinker\u2019s power.\u201d2 <\/sup> God\u2019s continued use of Bunyan\u2019s preaching and writing is a fact of history.<\/p>\n

Robert and James Haldane (1760s-1850s)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

With John Knox long since dead and the Presbyterian Church long since established as the Church of Scotland, Baptists began to grow in small groups but with various forms of church order.\u00a0 The Haldane brothers became Baptist by conviction regarding believer\u2019s immersion and simple congregational church government.\u00a0 Robert was the theologian and James, the pastor.\u00a0 In their desire to reach the masses in central Scotland, especially Edinburgh, they established Baptist Tabernacles for preaching.\u00a0 Some of these preaching centers were in a building called the \u201cCircus.\u201d\u00a0 In his biography, son Alexander describes their services:<\/p>\n

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The Circus first, and then the Tabernacle, were crowded by thronging multitudes, hanging upon the preacher\u2019s lips, joining with earnestness in the prayers, singing the praises of the Lord with their whole hearts, remaining during long services without wearying, and retiring in solemn silence, afraid, as it were to desecrate the place where the Lord himself was present, and that presence was felt.3<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Their church, the Charlotte Baptist Chapel, is still a large gospel preaching church and has been pastored by such preachers as Graham Scroggie and J. Sidlow Baxter and Alister Begg.<\/p>\n

D. L. Moody (1837-1899)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

More people are familiar with this American evangelist than almost any other American religious figure.\u00a0 He is well-known for his humble beginnings, that he was converted when he was just a shoe-shine boy, and that his mother was of New England Puritan stock.\u00a0 Because of his zeal for soul-winning and direct style of preaching, hundreds of thousands of souls are in heaven today.\u00a0 It is almost strange to hear of Moody\u2019s motives and manners being questioned by young men desiring to preach the gospel.<\/p>\n

Moody met Ira Sankey in a most unique way.4<\/sup> In 1870 Moody was in Indianapolis to speak at a local church.\u00a0 At the same time, Sankey was in Indianapolis to attend a pastors\u2019 conference on evangelism which was being held nightly at 7:00pm at the Academy of Music.\u00a0 Sankey wanted to hear Moody while he was in town, so one night he went to that church\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 service and the two met for the first time.\u00a0 Moody asked Sankey to meet him downtown the next afternoon.\u00a0 When they met, Moody placed a large box on the street corner and asked Sankey to sing a song, to which Sankey obliged.\u00a0 Then Moody stepped on the box and began to preach to the multitude of factory workers leaving the factories.\u00a0 The crowd was so large that they had to move into the Academy of Music. Thousands heard Sankey sing and Moody preach and many were\u00a0 converted.\u00a0 A humorous anecdote is that Moody\u2019s \u201ccongregation\u201d was forced to leave before 7:00pm so the ministers\u2019 meeting on how to evangelize could begin on time!<\/p>\n

When Moody and Sankey\u00a0 traveled in Scotland, the reception was initially cold until the people attended the services, then \u201chis simple and scriptural style of preaching soon won them.\u201d5<\/sup> Sankey, of Scotch-Irish stock himself and born in Edinburgh, was\u00a0 allowed to use an organ with which to sing.\u00a0 He wrote his \u201cNinety and Nine\u201d just for the Scottish meetings.\u00a0 When\u00a0\u00a0 I preached in a Scottish Baptist church just outside Edinburgh in the summer of 2004, the congregation was asked for favorites to sing.\u00a0 Immediately, a woman said, \u201cSing our song, the \u2018Ninety and Nine.\u2019\u201d It is no wonder that when Moody died, Lord Overtoun sent a telegraph to Chicago: \u201cAll Scotland mourns.\u201d<\/p>\n

John A. Broadus (1827-1894) and\u00a0A. T. Robertson (1863-1934)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Broadus and Robertson were the two greatest American Greek Scholars of their day.\u00a0 They were early Southern Baptists and largely responsible for starting Southern Baptist Seminary.\u00a0 Robertson became Broadus\u2019 son-in-law when he married his youngest daughter, Ella.<\/p>\n

Because of their well-known scholarship, their evangelistic desires are often over-looked.\u00a0 Both men carried on extensive preaching ministries in churches, meetings and, in Broadus\u2019 case, to the troops during the Civil War.\u00a0 Stonewall Jackson himself invited Broadus to come and preach among the troops in the evening camps.\u00a0 Broadus described himself as \u201ca missionary in General Lee\u2019s army.\u201d\u00a0 In those evenings, Robert E. Lee and other dignitaries often attended.\u00a0 And, of those meetings, a few letters have survived:<\/p>\n

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Many wept during the sermons, and not at allusions to home, but to their sins, and God\u2019s great mercy. . . . Gilmer is dreadfully opposed to inviting men forward to prayer, etc., though Lacy, Hoge, and most of the Presbyterians, do it just like the rest of us. . . . The songs, simple old hymns, containing the very marrow of the gospel, were sung \u2018with the spirit and the understanding,\u2019 and stirred every heart. . .\u00a0 At the close of the service they came by the hundreds to ask an interest in the prayers of God\u2019s people, or profess a new-found faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and I doubt not that our beloved brother has greeted on the other shore not a few who heard him that day or at other points in the army.6<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Robertson, largely responsible for organizing the London Baptist World Congress and other such preaching meetings, was himself a\u00a0\u00a0 motivating speaker.\u00a0 By his own\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 testimony, \u201cthe greatest single evangelistic service\u201d of his life was in the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City.\u00a0 His biographer describes it:<\/p>\n

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The soul of the great scholar was manifestly filled and swept along by the Spirit of God.\u00a0 He was telling the story of the life of Christ.\u00a0 At length he left the pulpit.\u00a0 He walked the aisles.\u00a0 He lifted his face and voice to the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 galleries.\u00a0 Back and forth he went pleading with his hearers to come to Christ.\u00a0 The result was that about ninety young people and others gave their hearts and lives to the Lord that day. . . .\u00a0 When asked by a friend what his text was, Dr. Robertson replied simply: \u2018I had no text.\u00a0 I told them the story of Jesus.\u2019\u00a0 That day was reward enough for a life-time\u2019s labor.7<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And So . . . .<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I would not propose for a\u00a0 minute that any of us would agree\u00a0 with everything any of these preachers and singers did or said.\u00a0 I myself would have to separate from many\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of their associations.\u00a0 I was prepared also to tell similar true stories of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Sunday, C. H. Spurgeon, George Whitfield, and even John and Charles Wesley.\u00a0 If one wants to find points of disagreement with these men, he will not need to look far.\u00a0 Almost all of them were considered unpolished and unorthodox in their day.\u00a0 But for young men today, sitting behind their computer screens, to write them off as\u00a0\u00a0 uneducated, shallow, and simply entertaining is to shut themselves off from the history of the Gospel itself.\u00a0 While reading these histories and biographies, I have often thought that these styles and methods would not be\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unusual in today\u2019s world at all.\u00a0 What would be unusual is the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit\u2019s power and moving upon sinners, and the earnest, direct singing of the church\u2019s (not the world\u2019s and not the priest\u2019s) music.\u00a0 God help us to find our own path back to true gospel preaching and singing.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists (Minneapolis:\u00a0 Klock & Klock, 1976) 476.<\/address>\n
2. Ibid.\u00a0 This story appears in most Bunyan biographies.<\/address>\n
3. Alexander Haldane, The Lives of Robert & James Haldane (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1990) 244.<\/address>\n
4. A.P. Fitt, The Life of D.L. Moody (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, nd) 71.<\/address>\n
5. Ibid<\/address>\n
6. A.T. Robertson, The Life and Letters of John A. Broadus (Philadelphia:\u00a0 American Baptist Pub. Soc., 1910) 208-209.<\/address>\n
7. Everett Gill, A.T. Robertson, A Biography (New York:\u00a0 MacMillan, 1943) 104-105.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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