While speaking with my colleague Ed Gravely this morning, I told him about an anecdote I once heard. A friend from a Deep South state once told me that as late as the 1990s the SBC churches in his home state had more names on their respective membership roles than his state had citizens. Ed responded with a humorous quip he often shares with his students: “One reason you can know that infant baptism cannot … [Read More]
The Community of the Gospel: Regenerate Church Membership
This is the third post in a series dedicated to the relationship between the gospel and Baptist identity. My previous post argued that Baptists should primarily embrace a Protestant Christian identity that is nuanced by a cluster of ecclesiological distinctives that have historically been associated with the Baptist tradition. Beginning with this post, the rest of the series will address those historic Baptist distinctives.
The foundational theological distinctive among Baptist Christians is a commitment to a … [Read More]
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