John R. Rice the great revivalist icon of Independent Baptist (IB) Fundamentalism (IFB), was a big leader in the Old Boys Club and a compromised and heretical man for a number of important reasons. Let’s consider a few: 1. Rice the mega-church guru and despiser of small churches . He laid the foundation for the advent of the IFB mega-churches of the '70s, while mocking “bland, self-assured "Bible teachers" preaching to little groups of saints,” and lumping “doctrinally sound