Baptists

Sometimes called the Jerusalem Council, this assembly was not really a church council at all. It was a business meeting of the local church in Jerusalem.

Roger Olson: A huge problem in all this is that many baptist congregations do not think theologically about their practices. And few really care to.

Reformation21: Whether readers agree or disagree with the particular arguments and conclusions made in this volume, no serious student of Baptist Foundations can leave this volume having failed to submit his own views on the church to renewed biblical scrutiny.

Independence Is Not Isolation: Baptist Networks, Past and Present

Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman have edited a new ecclesiology volume titled Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age.

Master’s Seminary: The short answer is that baptisms in the Christian sense began with John. The Jews had the concept of purifying through water, and different groups practiced various forms of these ceremonial washings, but they were nothing like what John was doing.

“When Americans switch religions, a new study says, they are twice as likely to leave a Baptist church as to join one.”

Perhaps a long-sought secret to the vitality of the Baptist movement is swarm intelligence, the “collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems.”

You’re gay and a Baptist preacher. Ain’t that a bit weird?

“Baptists have the freedom to be as backward and bigoted as they could possibly desire and as progressive and cutting edge as they are called to be”

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