Originally Posted by BobVigneault

The fundamentalists are right in the same area that the FV movement is right. They both point out a significant weakness in the church. They rightly observe that the members of the church do not act like they are members of the church. They ask, shouldn't there be moral evidence of the faith that supposedly inhabits church folk?

Next they ask, how then can we motivate christians to be holy? The fundamentalists attempt to motivate by preaching moralism and running the risk of confusing justification and sanctification. The FVer purposely mixes justification and sanctification and attempts to motivate by preaching a 'covenant faithfulness'. The Fundamentalists and the FVers end up with too much law and not enough gospel.

(The reformed response is to preach obedience as motivated by gratitude for justification.)