MAYBE YOU WOULDN’T LIKE…
OUR DRESS CODE
Many think our dress code is too strict. Skirts above the knees are not allowed. Men must wear neckties to class and must have short haircuts. Young ladies may not wear shorts or slacks.
OUR OLD-FASHIONED DISCIPLINE
Young ladies are not allowed to go off campus unchaperoned. Young men and young ladies may not date alone in cars. Absolutely no hand holding or other intimacies are allowed between the sexes. There are date nights with bus transportation and adequate chaperones provided by the college. Student insubordination is absolutely forbidden.
OUR INTENSE EVANGELISTIC ATMOSPHERE
All faculty, staff, and students are required to go soul winning weekly. Students participate in the evangelistic ministry of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, which builds its ministry around personal soul winning. An average of over 10,000 new converts were baptized each year for the past several years.
OUR FUNDAMENTALIST EMPHASIS
We are fundamentalists and use the term proudly. We believe in a literal Hell which has fire and brimstone and a literal Heaven with streets of gold. We stand for the King James Bible as the only Bible and the local New Testament church as the only true church. We believe in redemption through the blood of Christ, salvation by grace through faith alone, and the premillennial second coming of Jesus Christ.
OUR SEPARATIST POSITION
Absolutely no drinking, smoking, or dancing is allowed. No student is allowed to attend Hollywood movies, play cards, or participate in other questionable amusements. We do not fellowship with liberals, but instead take a strict separatist stand from the world and apostasy.
OUR EMPHASIS ON CULTURE
We believe in students’ learning and practicing propriety. We oppose the paganistic, barbaric humanism that prevails on many campuses. We believe in refinement, dignity, courtesy, proper manners, and Christian grace.
OUR EMPHASIS ON THE PRACTICAL
We blend the finest of scholarship with the best practical teaching possible. We teach not only what to do but how to do it. Preacher boys are taught how to start churches; how to build buildings; how to borrow money from lending institutions; how to raise money and adopt a budget; and how to organize, operate, and perpetuate a New Testament church.
These guys know how to whoop it up.
Where did you get that from?
Oh - and by the way - that reads like the handbook for MANY conservative Christian colleges just a few decades back.
And I actually found a very little that I would disagree with on that list...if it were my daughters going to college!
But I would disagree on a few points.
We are fundamentalists and use the term proudly.
I would consider myself pretty fundemental, which I won't apologize for, but I feel this statement is to justify beating people over the head. That I don't agree with.
We believe in a literal Hell which has fire and brimstone and a literal Heaven with streets of gold.
Yes. Ditto that here.
We stand for the King James Bible as the only Bible
AAhhh! Wrong answer. This statement is hubris. This isn't about humility and learning, this is about dogma. Is the KJV a good version? Most definetly, it is a very accurate TRANSLATION, but I don't worship the book, I worship the ONE who gave us the book.
and the local New Testament church as the only true church. We believe in redemption through the blood of Christ, salvation by grace through faith alone,
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
and the premillennial second coming of Jesus Christ.
That might be up for debate.
OUR SEPARATIST POSITION
Absolutely no drinking, smoking, or dancing is allowed. No student is allowed to attend Hollywood movies, play cards, or participate in other questionable amusements. i>
Obviously this is for a college campus, and the students who attend this school. There is a reason for these rules, which for the most part would be foolish to not adhere to. But, my impression is that these rules are laws that the leaders cram down others, and use to lord over others, much like the Pharisees did in Jesus day. I see no problem having a drink now and then, but I don't get drunk. Besides Jesus turned water into wine. And don't give me that junk about it being grape juice. Thats junk and a fabricated lie to push a personal agenda. Smoking. I don't. Its not good, but its not going to send someone to hell, or keep them out of heaven. Dancing. I LOOOVE to dance. I can understand having certain limitations on it. But not an outright ban. Hollyweird movies. I go once in a while, but today is far fewer than before, as I do not approve of most anything out of Hollywood. But not going to them does not make me, nor mean that I am holier. Nor does going to them mean I'm less. I am afforded the discretion to choose if and what I see. Cards and other questionable amusements. Just the wording makes me want to grab the pompous jerk by the neck and make his eyes bulge, and then toss him like a rag doll. But then, that wouldn't be very loving or christian like would it :)
We do not fellowship with liberals, but instead take a strict separatist stand from the world and apostasy.What pompousness. Seperating yourself from doing what the world does is one thing. But our job IS NOT to be removed from the world, it is to share the good news of the Gospel to the very liberals (and conservatives) this person loathes.
The Pharisees did stuff like this quite nicely.