E. J. Poole-Connor

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Edward Joshua Poole-Connor (27 July 1872 to 20 January 1962) was an evangelical preacher and Christian leader whose ministry spanned a most turbulent period in British church life, from the time of Charles Spurgeon to the 1960s, and whose record and analysis of its events has been widely observed. [1]

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Bible League Quarterly

He edited this quarterly magazine, alongside Bishop D. A. Thompson, first founded in 1892 to defend the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures. [2] The magazine was started shortly after Charles Spurgeon's death. Following Spurgeon's lead in the Downgrade Controversy, he felt a strong responsibility to advocate ecclesiastical separation from churches he perceived to be in profound theological error. [3] He wrote:

Evangelicals who remain in complacent fellowship with those who deny their faith are not only failing to stem the tide of apostasy; they are accelerating the pace. Their very leniency is eloquent advocacy; it cries aloud to multitudes that what men call liberalism in religion is far from being the harmful thing that Spurgeon thought it, for are not they - outstanding evangelicals - hand-in-glove with those who teach it?

Founder of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches

The FIEC is an association of churches, affiliated together in distinction from the other nonconformist denominations, which Poole-Connor perceived to be falling prey to serious defection from historic evangelical doctrine and practice. [1] He was a founder member of the International Council of Christian Churches and opposed the ecumenism of the World Council of Churches, which he regarded as apostate. [4]

Involvement in The Lord's Day Observance Society

He vigorously supported the defence of the free observance of Sunday worship, and helped administer the Lord's Day Observance Society, opposing encroachments upon this liberty. [1]

Secretary of the North Africa Mission

He served as secretary to the North Africa Mission, later known as Arab World Ministries, between his two pastorates at Talbot Tabernacle.

Restorationist

Like Spurgeon, and many Puritan and Evangelical predecessors he held Restorationist views about Israel's return. [5]

This nation, so highly honored, so deeply guilty, so sorely punished, is to be restored...the breaking of Israel’s day will be preceded by an hour of darkness, the most intense and awful that this suffering nation has ever known.

Publications

Posthumous works:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Fountain, David (22 March 2005). Contending for the Faith: E. J. Poole-Connor - A Prophet Amidst the Sweeping Changes in English Evangelicalism. London: Wakeman Trust. p. 174. ISBN   9781870855327.
  2. ↑ Bible League Quarterly Official Website
  3. ↑ Poole-Connor, E.J. (1965). Evangelicalism in England. London: Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. p. 298. ISBN   9780854791910.
  4. ↑ McIntyre, Carl (1962). "In memoriam Edward Joshua Poole Connor". Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Coming of the Son of Man". Providence Baptist Ministries, originally published in print in 1913. 3 May 2013. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
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