by Kevin Bauder | Dec 14, 2016 | Ecclesiology
It’s been tried. Badly, if one holds a New Testament view of the ordinance.
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 13, 2016 | Christianity, Ecclesiology, Faculty Life, Pastoral Theology, Theology
Is church membership necessary? What does church membership mean? What obligations does it entail? Michael Riley answers these questions in “The Necessity of Church Membership” at Diakrisis. Membership is important because church discipline is designed by...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 12, 2016 | Christianity, Devotion, Ecclesiology, Local Church
His essay is “The Narcissism of ‘Solitary Religion.'” Here’s part of what he says: There is, I suppose, a sort of paradox here, but it is a very natural one. Faith is something that no one else can do for you. It must be your own faith, or it...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 12, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Ecclesiology
Moses was instructed to make sure that the tabernacle was “according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount” (Hebrews 8: 5). Moses did not have the authority to improve upon God’s design. The pattern God gave Moses was not a suggestion, and then Moses could take...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Ecclesiology, Fundamentalism, Local Church, Separation, Universal Church
Why do we call it ecclesiastical separation? Some seem to think that we use this label because we are talking about separation that pertains to local churches, either in terms of their own membership or in terms of their outside fellowship. But that definition is both...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Anthropology, Baptists, Church Unity, Civility, Ecclesiology, Reports, Soteriology
Some younger fundamentalists have the impression that life in the wider Evangelical world is all peace in the valley, not at all like the quarrels and spats they’ve heard about in fundamentalism. That impression is mistaken. For example, take Paige...
