Which denominations deliberately resist the 'easy believism' 'gospel'?
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Jesus said 'the words that I speak unto you - they are spirit and they are life'. Paul also made it clear that if one receives the exact word of the true gospel (rather than, for example, the legal admixture which he opposed in Galatia) then Christ, himself, will be 'formed within'.
>My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, [Galatians 4:19 KJV].
This being 'formed within' is the real presence of Christ himself, in Spirit, consequent upon real repentance and a saving faith.
The Strict and Particular Baptist movement of the early and middle 1800s, led first by William Huntington and then by William Gadsby, John Warburton and J.C.Philpot, stood strongly for real experience of conviction of sin, repentance of an evangelical kind (not mere legal remorse) and a real closing with Christ himself in felt union.
Thereafter came a weakened expectation and a reliance on a 'decision' which fell short of real regeneration. The general term 'easy believism' has been, loosely, used to describe this.
I am looking for any gatherings (or even a whole denomination, if there be such) which follow in the footsteps of the Strict and Particular Baptists in this regard, both in doctrine and in practice and in fellowship.
My own experience, in the south west of England, is that the denomination called 'Gospel Standard Strict Baptist' is far from its origins in the previous two centuries, though they do, in word, adhere to certain doctrine and practice that is reminiscent of their beginnings.
My question is addressed to Reformed and Trinitarian, Baptist
Protestantism. But I would not discount Presbyterianism.
What is easy believism ?
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