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Dr. Steve Pettit, President of Bob Jones University since 2014, is currently under review by the BJU Board of Trustees along with his contra

One of the loudest critics of the BJU Fashion Show was non-BJU-grad (Class of 2011) and KJVO-idealogue and Confederate-flag-at-the-pulpit pastor, Ken Willis. Remember?

He adds more data to the objections to Steve Pettit. Likely these are his objections and maybe his objections alone.

allowed the students to participate in packing Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes last year as part of their campus outreach

preached at a couple of area Presbyterian churches

allowed the women to wear pants to class

allowed the parents to determine what church their children will attend (non Fundamentalist included)

UPDATE: Ken Willis has contacted WutBJU to correct an earlier statement. He did graduate from BJU in 2011. There you are! Thanks, Pastor Willis!

#Bob Jones University #Ken Willis #Make BJU Great Again #Make Pettit Prez Again #KJVO #BJUVogue #Class of 2011

So while Steve Pettit is bragging that he visited Yale University, with fashion shows and weird podcasts, with "unforeseen circumstances" causing BJU to cancel Trevor Lawrence and Steve Pettit bragging about his engagement story, BJU critic and graduate (Class of 2011) and KJVO apologist Ken Willis is continuing his criticism of BJU's straying from the fundy fold. He brings in BJU Bible faculty member, David Beale's recent self-published book, Christian Fundamentalism in America. This book is making the rounds, and I haven't had a chance to read it myself. All in good time.

But Willis' describes Beale's critique at length.

Fundamentalist church historian David Beale has recently written a book in which he states that Bob Jones University has left Fundamentalism.

“After being the premier Fundamentalist academic institution for eighty-seven years, BJU elected Dr. Steve Pettit in 2014, as the president who steered the University out of separatist Fundamentalism into the inclusive, broad Evangelical movement”

– From “Christian Fundamentalism in America,” p. 179

Dr. David Beale was one of if not BJU’s leading Church Historians and Church History faculty members for some time. In his new book, Christian Fundamentalism In America, Beale has drawn attention from Seminary professors across the nation for his assessment of the new direction BJU has been taken under President Steve Pettit.

For years now Dr. Pettit’s leadership decisions and general shift towards ecumenicism at BJU have raised eyebrows within the Fundamentalist churches, but now one of BJU’s own, and a renowned Church Historian and author at that, has delivered an assessment that clearly BJU would have loved not to have had rendered. Beale asserts that Pettit has taken the once Fundamentalist stronghold into an open embrace of New Evangelicalism. In the recent years, Pettit has openly embraced New Evangelicals, invited them to speak in Bible Conference and to teach in the Seminary. The standards on campus have been lowered to appeal to a New Evangelical base and Calvinism has surged in the Seminary and University classrooms. Also embraced by Pettit is the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastors and churches across the nation have lamented seeing their Fundamentalist-raised youth shipped off to a seemingly Fundamentalist institution only to emerge having forsaken their Fundamentalist upbringing and welcoming a disdain for the KJV, New Evangelicalism, ecumenicism, Calvinism, CCM and more liberal standards and beliefs.

BJU and Steve Pettit have much to answer for; this is undeniable, yet I find the deeper blame to rest not on BJU but on the churches from which the students come. Why is it that churches feel the need for a liberal arts university to accomplish in four years in the life of a student what that same church could not accomplish in the last 18 years? That is right. What on earth has that church been doing to give that young person a doctrinal foundation over the last 18 years? This is rhetorical in that I can very likely guess exactly what. Allow me to paint a picture of what the normal Fundamentalist high school graduate’s spiritual education looks like when they arrive at college.

From the nursery to 6th grade, the child has learned to color very well and has a basic knowledge of some Bible characters and famous stories from the Old & New Testament. They may even be able to locate most books of the Bible. From 7th to 8th grade, the student is introduced to lower level doctrines and by the time they finish 12th grade, some of them will still struggle with their salvation because no one has ever given them a Biblical class on exactly how Scripture defines salvation, its evidences and they will continue to struggle until someone does. The high school graduate will have little to no concept of Bible versions other than how important it is to only use their KJV. But when they encounter an educated professor using big words and terms, they will fold like an accordion to the display of academic assault for which they were never prepared. Bible doctrine is a thing almost unheard of in most pulpits. And the college classroom will fill the void without mercy. Whatever conception of Bible doctrine a student forms will happen in the classroom, not from the pulpit. Expository preaching, or what passes for it, has not prepared our youth for academia, and we will pay dearly for it. So what am I saying? The burden of doctrinal training must fall on our Pastors and Churches! Our young people should be so firmly grounded in sound, comprehensive Bible doctrine that no slick talking professor could shake it from them! Our churches need doctrine-based preaching, not story telling. They need doctrine-centered youth groups, not entertainment. They need church classes on doctrines such as Theology, Christology, Pneumatology, Soteriology, Eschatology, Church History, Creationism, Hermeneutics, Bibliology, Bible Translations and more. If we as preachers, pastors and church leaders neglect these things, we have no right to complain when the colleges do our job for us and yet poison minds in the process. It is we who failed these students! “But that would be a lot of work.” So what? So is trying to fix a broken mind poisoned from false teaching and liberal doctrine. Our youth should march out from our doors as fully equipped elite soldiers of Jesus Christ, not a ragtag militia armed with pitchforks of storytelling, personal opinion and loud “Amens” only. The apostasy of our day is of Satanic design, but I submit that we make his battle too easy by our shameful neglect of Bible doctrine. Our youth should be warriors armed to the teeth. Sadly today, they are harmless sheep marching to the slaughter that awaits in the halls of academia.

Well, well, well. . . . So BJU is now the one shipwrecking co-eds.

#Bob Jones University #David Beale #Ken Willis #KJVO #Class of 2011

The next day Ken Willis of KJV Answers added his two cents.

Bob Jones University will host former Clemson and current NFL quarterback Trevor Lawrence later this month. This move comes as surprise to some Conservative churches formerly and still associated with the University, yet it is in full keeping with BJU’s shift away from Fundamentalism and open embrace of New Evangelicalism and ecumenicism. The invitation of Lawrence to address the student body is however an even farther shift left for BJU; one that involves Marxism, Black Lives Matter and hardcore contemporary Christianity.

Lawrence has been an active member of the Newspring, Anderson SC Campus Church. Newspring is known across the Carolinas as a radically contemporary group, involving heavy rock and roll and pyrotechnic style worship. Bob Jones University, once called the “Bastion of Faith”, has invited all that Lawrence is associated with into its halls and no doubt will give credence to Lawrence’s effeminate appearance, his advocacy for Black Lives Matter (a Marxist Terrorist organization that spreads hate and chaos), rocker style CCM and worship and will glorify a young man who though may be a pleasant and kind individual—is far from a Christian role model for Fundamental Christians to set before their youth as the model of Biblical orthodox Christianity. BJU should focus on setting before its student body men who have served the Lord Jesus Christ with a life of separation and holiness unto the LORD; men who have faithfully proclaimed the Gospel without bending or compromising at the whims of financial difficulty. However, BJU has chosen to present Lawrence as a role model after which its students should follow. BJU has shifted away from the conservative Bible principles upon which it was founded and has ran to embrace that which it stood against for almost a century.

BJU’s Director of Athletics Neal Ring has stated that he looks forward to hearing how Lawrence’s faith “allows him to balance his priorities and stay positive”. So BJU has told us it is more interested in hearing a liberal Christian (associated with BLM and Newspring) than standing on the Bible, the principles upon which it was founded and to deny the shame of lifting up an effeminite pop star for the sake of popularity points.

II Corinthians 11:14-16 – “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?” When I attended BJU in 2007-11, I would have failed hair-check if hair overlapped my ears, yet now BJU has all but abandoned hair checks and proudly displays young men with longer hair dues. Apparently, now the hair of students is publicly invited to mimic BJU latest hero on display–the signature long haired Trevor Lawrence.

Conservative church leaders should immediately write BJU and express their concern and disappointment, but do not expect to be heeded. BJU, more specifically, Dr. Steve Pettit is set on a course to abandon the Fundamentalist origin of the university and to embrace the religious left of New Evangelicism and proceed full steam ahead on the path of ecumenicism. BJU is not shocking anyone anymore. BJU’s aim is in the open and they do not blush.

BJU has embraced the social Gospel and one of political correctness. They have joined arm in arm with the Southern Baptist Convention, New Evangelicals, Global Warming, Martin Luther King (a womanizing communist), and now Black Lives Matter, Marxism and effeminacy. As John said in chapter 12, verse 43: “For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.”

While there is always the possibility of repentance and returning to the old paths, BJU and Pettit have made it repeatedly clear that they are more interested in enrollment numbers (which are failing) than obedience to the Word of God.

And after that? ...