(revised 02/27/14)
There are so many evangelical Christians falling away into apostasy in these End Times – sometimes I feel overwhelmed and discouraged. But then I remind myself there are many biblically sound Christian movements today that should be a source of great encouragement for all discerning, biblically sound Christians.
Following are a few of my favorite movements. I will be adding to this list as I come across more. Dear reader, I realize my list may be controversial. The list reflects my personal doctrinal stances – your list may be different.
The movements are listed alphabetically here, not in order of importance.
Abstinence movement
– “Why Wait?” resources
Christian classics – Most Christian publishers are putting out fewer and fewer biblically sound Christian books. Yet at the same time, the Internet is providing us with more and more free, public domain biblically sound books viewable online, as well as inexpensive eBooks. No longer is our reading limited to “hard copy” publications.
– Google online ebooks advanced search page
Christian publishers – There are still a number of small, biblically sound Christian publishers. Click here for my blog listing many of these.
Church bookstores – It seems very few Christian bookstores are biblically sound. Most sell whatever sells well, regardless of how heretical the books, CDs, etc. Check out David Cloud’s article on a good alternative – church bookstores.
Confessing Movement – Mainly consisting of concerned Christians in mainline/liberal denominations. As the denominations grow more ungodly regarding homosexual “rights”, etc., these Christians are pushing for their local churches to become independent from their denominations. Click here and here for my blogs about this movement.
Conservative Holiness movement
– Wikipedia article
Conservative Mennonites
– Wikipedia article
– Conservative Mennonite Fellowship
Creation Science (specifically, the Young Earth movement)
– Wikipedia article on Creation Science (showing bias against it)
– Wikipedia article on Young Earth Creationism (showing bias against it)
Discernment Ministries, also called Online Discernment Ministries (ODMs). For links to my favorite ODMs, scroll down to the bottom of the right hand side of my blog page, to the section entitled Blogroll.
Frugal living (downward mobility) – This is a biblical principle. Jesus commanded:
19) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal…” (Matt. 6:19-20, KJV)
Since our economy took a downward turn in Fall 2008, many Christians have been forced into frugality, learning how to live on less. Perhaps this economic difficulty is God’s way of driving us to our knees, to rid us of materialism and draw us closer to Him.
– Mary Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living
– DaveRamsey.com
Homeschooling (Christian) and private Christian schools
– Wikipedia article on Homeschooling (secular)
– HomeschoolChristian.com
Hymn websites – Paul encouraged the New Testament Christians to:
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” (Col. 3:16, KJV).
Pew hymnbooks have disappeared from many churches since the early 1970s (the advent of Contemporary Christian Music). Thank the Lord for hymn websites, listing hymn lyrics and hymn tunes.
Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) churches (I prefer IFB churches holding to the positions of David Cloud at Way of Life Literature)
King James Bible movement (including adherents of the Textus Receptus NT and Masoretic OT)
– David Cloud’s position on the KJV-only movement
– Dean Burgon Society
KJV Bible publishing ministries (Bearing Precious Seed)
Mission agencies – These agencies focus on evangelism (saving souls). They do not use a missional/Kingdom Now/social holiness approach, nor do they support the Insider Movement/ Contextualization.
– list of KJV Baptist missions
– Biblical Missiology (a consortium, not a missions agency)
– i2 Ministries
“Persecuted Christian” groups
– Persecution.org
– Voice of the Martyrs
Post-Trib movement – I grew up being taught the Pre-Trib Rapture theory. I now prefer the Post-Trib view – although I love to fellowship with all premillenialists, whether Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib or Post-Trib.
– Post-Trib.net
Pro-Life movement
– Wikipedia article on the Pro-Life movement
“Repentance Salvation” movement (I am using the phrase “repentance salvation” for lack of a better term) – This movement fights Easy Believism aka Easy Prayerism. This movement is mostly Independent Fundamentalist Baptist. Proponents are David Cloud (IFB) and Paul Washer (Southern Baptist), to name a few.
Repentance Salvation overlaps with a movement perjoratively called “Lordship Salvation”, which is more extreme. Note – David Cloud opposes Lordship Salvation. Opponents of Repentance Salvation often confuse it with Lordship Salvation, attacking both as equally heretical.
– This “Repentance Blacklist” was posted by a website critical of Repentance Salvation; I actually recommend most (but not all) of the names on this “blacklist”
– Wikipedia article about Paul Washer
– “Repentance and Lordship Salvation”, by David Cloud
– “Repentance and Lordship Salvation Revisited”, by David Cloud
Separatist Fundamentalist associations (multi-denominational)
– Click here and here for my blogs about these.
Tract-publishing ministries (mostly KJV)
– “Witnessing With Gospel Tracts”, by David Cloud
November 29th, 2008 | 
Author: 
Christians United Against Apostasy 
