Southern Baptists and the Quest for Theological Identity

Jim
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Baptist Identity

Our commitment to regenerate church membership, the baptism of believers only, and our understanding of the nature of the church gives Baptists a unique voice in the face of disappearing cultural Christianity. I honestly believe that in coming years evangelicals will increasingly look to Southern Baptists due to the ecclesiological crises created by the collapse of cultural Christianity. The coming generation will urgently need the wisdom and biblical conviction of Baptists on these issues.

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Bert Perry
Wed, 08/17/16 9:49 am

I’m mostly with Jim—currently encouraging my oldest daughter to attend an EFCA church at college because there are no good Baptist churches in the area—but I wonder if the SBC can do a lot to restore the usefulness of the “Baptist” name in this regard. If you do it right, it’s useful shorthand for a lot of truth—but if you do it wrong, it’s shorthand for a lot of nonsense.

In my perhaps not humble enough opinion, of course. :^)

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.