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I am not too sure i understand at all because Fundamentalists and Evangelicals are just more words that are Greek to me.

How ever i assume that the fundamentalists would be referred to as the church, and the Evangelicals are preaching the Gospel that the church should
be preaching.

I believe that Jesus was the son of God and was killed on the cross and rose from the grave and was glorified and now sits at the right hand of God but i have no church.

I also believe what he said in his own words happen to be the only Gospel we have.

Many people try to water down the Bible in order not to offend some one, others will try to make it more severe in order to keep what they believe to be undesirables out.

Some of the apostles went to great length to make the members of their church understand the importance of living the gospel they were commissioned to preach.

In this day of greed they are not only trying to make every one believers but also trying to make every one members of their church.

Matt 23
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For they bind heavy burdens which are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift one of their little fingers to help them.

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

The object of the church was not to get every one to join the church, (in fact not just any one could join the church) but to preach the gospel OF jesus.

So if i understand what the thread is saying, it seems to me that the fundamentalists may have a better concept of how a church should be organized.

But the Evangelicals are doing what Jesus said to do and that is to preach the gospel, and maybe failing in running a well organized church.

With regard to the labels (for good or bad) "Fundamentalist" and "Evangelical" it is true that a little history of the last 150 to 200 years is very helpful.

Briefly, "Evangelicals" of the 18th and 19th centuries were fundamentalists. The word "Fundamentalist" began to be used (after 1925 especially) for those continuing in that expression of doctrine and manner of Christian life, when those calling themselves "evangelicals" began to be ultra-inclusive, and more worldly in their outward expression.