REGARDING NON-ISSUES WITHIN FUNDAMENTALISM

While agreeing that whatever the Bible says is so and maintaining that the Bible is clear in its declaration of the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith, we recognize that there may be well-intentioned differences between ourselves on some doctrinal and practical issues. We reaffirm historic Fundamentalism's practice of according liberty to one another on matters about which the Scripture does not bind the believer's conscience inflexibly. It behooves us all to hold our positions firmly while endeavouring "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," and above all abstaining from the censorious spirit which condemns where Scripture does not, and on the other hand, from "despising" or making light of one another or failing to forgo graciously the exercise of our liberty when to practice it becomes an occasion for a brother's stumbling. We encourage each to be strict with himself but charitably generous toward others.