by Kevin Bauder | Nov 12, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Culture, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, What We're Reading
Scripture requires a high view of creation and of cultural activity, but it also requires a distinction between the holy things of Christ’s heavenly kingdom and the common things of the present world. It requires a distinction between God’s providential sustaining of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 27, 2016 | America, Culture, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Evangelicalism, Politics
Andrew T. Walker of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Commission on Ethics and Religious Liberty says no in an essay entitled “The Impossibility of the Apolitical Church.” I have to be very clear about something: The church that insists on calling...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 24, 2016 | Church History, Church Unity, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Separation
You need to know this bit of history because of the important ecclesiological issues that were at stake. Thanks to Justin Taylor, you can. [Stott’s and his allies’] arguments took three forms: (1) Historically, they argued that the constitutional basis of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Church Unity, Ecclesiology
Not long ago Peter Leithart asked whether Protestantism had a future. Douglas Wilson didn’t like his answer. The exchange provides some valuable insight as to the nature and boundaries of the church. As Baptists, we would say some different things and say other...
by Jeff Straub | Oct 13, 2016 | Ecclesiology
Ten years ago, John Piper attempted to convince Bethlehem to allow for non-immersed believers to be members. The plan never succeeded. Recently the Canadian Fellowship of Evangelical Baptists discussed doing the same thing. Read about it here....
