Posts by Larry Oats
A Theology of Separation
Larry Oats In the last issue of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal I wrote an article on the Theology of Fellowship.1 This current article is the flipside of the earlier article. A theology of separation needs to be part of a theology of fellowship. This article will be limited to the New Testament. A study…
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Larry Oats Fundamentalism is best known for its separatism, a willingness to separate when biblical truth is at stake. Separation, however, is the flipside of fellowship. If we can fellowship with someone (or something like a church or an association), we cannot separate from him (or it). If we do not have a basis for…
Read MoreSaved, Saved, Saved–Why Are Our Teens Getting Saved Over and Over? [FrontLine feature article]
by Larry Oats This article appears in the current issue of FrontLine • May/June 2012. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The church teens head off to summer camp, the Christian school invites a special speaker to a spiritual emphasis week, the youth group goes to a youth conference— and many of the church…
Read MoreDispensationalism, Baptists, and Fundamentalism
by Larry R. Oats This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2010. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. While many think of dispensationalism as a way to divide history into seven (give or take one or two) eras, it is really more about hermeneutics than history. Its focus is on how to properly…
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