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McCune on Landmarkism

by Kevin Bauder | Jul 21, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Ecclesiology, Local Church, Universal Church, What We're Reading

Some Baptists (e.g., Landmark Baptists) insist that the only ekklesia in the New Testament is a local church. Every usage, according to them, refers to the local church, individually or collectively. However, this view runs up against serious problems. For instance,...

The Body of Christ

by Kevin Bauder | Jul 17, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Ecclesiology, Local Church, Universal Church, What We're Reading

The body of Christ is meaningful in so far as individual Christians have Christ as their collective head. It is not individual local churches of which Christ is the head. It is not even individual Christians who are members of local churches. Rather, all Christians of...

Reviews of Jeff Brown, Corporate Decision Making

by Kevin Bauder | Feb 19, 2017 | Alumni, Biblical Studies, Ecclesiology, Library Tips, Local Church, Theology

Jeff Brown is missionary (Baptist Mid-Missions) to Germany who earned his research doctorate from Central Seminary. He published his dissertation as Corporate Decision-Making and the Church of the New Testament (Pickwick Publications). The volume has recently been...

Cancelling Corporate Worship on Christmas?

by Kevin Bauder | Dec 24, 2016 | Christianity, Church Services, Ecclesiology, Holidays, Local Church, Pastoral Theology, Sacred and Mundane, Theology, Worship

You don’t have to be a strict Sabbatarian to understand that Adam Parker nails it.

Ben Witherington on Going It Alone

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...

Ecclesiastical Separation

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...
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