The contemporary church ministries of our own time have all but lost the message of historic Christianity and the grace teachings of the New Testament. The charismatics have gone to their extant voices, visions, and dreams and have become bankrupt of any former claim to holiness of life while getting bogged down in their erroneous glossolalia. The neo-evangelicals have fled to ecumenical evangelism which has become the most popular form of Christianity in the history of the Christian Church. All of these are going back to Rome for their fellowship and their survival. The fundamentalists have a totally new face which would not have survived in the first two generations. Contemporary music has opened the door for the loss of historic fundamentalism while the youngest fundamentalists are seeking to be relieved from the battlefield, believing a more tolerant spirit with the charismatics and the neo-evangelicals could bring them back to fundamentalism. Of course, the battle against the Authorized King James Version is now appearing more prominent than it was in the first and second generations of the fundamentalists when it was lauded high. It appears that the very movement that gave the battle-cry for the KJV will now get rid of its prominence among them. That faithful war-horse has won many a victory for the Word of God.

Generally speaking, it is in the air: most of these groups want Christianity to be very easy, simple, somewhat light and chaffy, with not too much scholarship except as a rare tool on a rare occasion to exalt another particular English version of the Bible. The preacher who now comes along and speaks seriously for the Word of God will suffer the criticism, "He is too deep." It seems to be never considered as a possibility, "Christianity has become too shallow." Rarely, any more, do you see a hunger in the modern congregation or the pulpit for anything deeper than what has been said over and over again for many years. We placed the word congregation (the audience) first in the previous sentence because it appears that the congregation determines the preaching of the pulpit instead of God's preacher. We have turned away from honorable debate over the depth of the Bible; we prefer the dialogue instead. The inevitable Biblical controversy has all but fled from the men reputed to be the men of the Lord.