A Summary of Posts About the Family Integrated Church

General Beliefs Associated with Vision Forum’s                                          Family Integrated Church (FIC)

• What is the FIC? (Brief description of ideas associated with the FIC)
• The Family Integrated Church and Spiritual Abuse (A review of general criticisms of the FIC and beliefs associated with its practice)
• Perception: A Major Problem for Patriarchy (Ideologies, practices and affiliations associated with the wide array of beliefs associated with the FIC)
• The Linguistic Snare of Men as Prophet, Priest and King (A review of Baucham’s email correspondence contrasted against Whitefield’s sermon)

Confusion Regarding the Multiple Facets of the FIC

• Southern Seminary Guilty by Association or a Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes? (Examination of the overlapping beliefs shared among the wide array of groups that advocate the FIC)
• Two Major Distinctions Between Different SBTS and Other Patriocentrists: Evangelism and a Woman in Government (Sarah Palin and issues with evangelism in the FIC)
• Confusion Concerning Overlapping Use of Terminology Within the FIC (Noting the use of identical language within many different camps and parachurch organziations under the FIC umbrella and the honest confusion that results. Noting the different groups within the Southern Baptist Convention, Vision Forum, Henry Reyenga’s Home Discipleship and Voddie Baucham.)
• Defining Terms and Expectations Within the FIC (Examining more overlapping beliefs within different factions of the FIC, comparing statements made by Randy Stinson of SBTS and by Doug Phillips of Vision Forum)

Distorted and Overlapping Language Within the FIC

• Pulling Apart the Ambiguous Language of the FIC: Multigenerational Faithfulness Posts (Evaluating a term and concept associated with the FIC)
• The Logical Fallacy of Redefining Terms and Other Boobytraps (Review of logical fallacies related to the loading of language used within the FIC)
• See also *Giving the Appearance of Tolerance

Southern Baptist Convention’s Specific Views About the FIC

• Steve Wright’s “reThink” (The SBC’s version of the Family Integrated Church)
• Randy Stinson

*Part I: Vision Forum Commonalities

*Part II: Rejection of the Church as a Family of Families

*Part III: No Rejection of Age Appropriate Education

Development of FIC Doctrine

• How Calvin’s Spheres Facilitate the FIC (The restriction of the activity of women outside of the home based upon a novel interpretation of the writings of Calvin)
• The Sphere of Family and the FIC (More discussion of the spheres of dominion noted in Reformed, Covenant and Theonomic theology and their impact on the development of the ideology regarding family within the FIC)
• Benjamin M Palmer’s Ontological Subordination of Women: “The Derivative Image of God” (Quoting Palmer on the role of women in family from his 1876 book, “The Family”)
• The Natural Religion of Family of Benjamin Morgan Palmer (Additional quotes from the 1876 publication)
• Patriarchal Meditation of Palmer (Additional quotes from Palmer)
• The Development of Christian Education-Oriented Affinity Groups and Intolerance of the Non-Reformed: The Shift from Dominion to Domination (Fear mongering and exclusivity within the FIC as contrasted against the original sentiments about Christian education for children in the 1970s)
• How Patriarchy Necessitates the Need for the FIC (How the view of the church primarily as a family of families limits evangelism and requires repudiation of age appropriate education)
• Response to the Series on the FIC

Criticism of the FIC

• FBFI Statement Criticizing the FIC
• Criticizing Federal Headship as Interpreted By Some FICs (A critique offered by Pastor Jack Brooks of the Evangelical Free Church)
• Hegemony of the FIC (Problems of exclusivity within the FIC)

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Voddie Baucham on the Family Integrated Church

• Attempting to Clarify Baucham’s Position on Matters Related to the FIC.  No one does FIC correctly but Baucham.

• List of Questions for Baucham Pertaining to the FIC.    The unanswered questions that Baucham agreed to answer.

• Book review of “Family Driven Faith".   Baucham's book about the Family Integrated Church

• Sunday School as Darwinian Evolution   How Baucham uses logical fallacy to promote his extreme view

• Voddie Baucham on Sunday School and Youth Ministry Expanded transcript of Sunday School as Darwinian Evolution

• Does Baucham Embrace Marriage as a Sacrament?    No divorce policy; Marriage as a "sanctifying work."

• How Patriarchy Necessitates Family Integrated Worship.  Why the FIC is a Calvinist-only, family-only affinity group

• Okay, Two Major Distinctions between SBTS and Quiverfull's Family Integrated Worship     Baucham rejected by the SBC for lack of support for the McCain/Palin ticket

• A review of the film, Courageous.  How the film propagates FIC doctrine

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