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,...
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...
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 | Sep 23, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Church Unity, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Local Church, Separation, Universal Church, What We're Reading
“There has been almost universal agreement that unity exists in a spiritual sense in the invisible church. Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and others ascribed to the invisible church a unity that is indivisible because of its center in the living Christ. The...
