Baptist Polity

Henry was a Baptist who sometimes didn’t write like one!

“The story goes that during the Civil War he was tapped to run a town meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he’d been sent to manage construction of naval defenses against possible Confederate attack. Embarrassed that he had no idea how to run such a meeting, he undertook the study of parliamentary procedure that became his enduring passion.” - RNS

Roger Olson: The meaning of “church autonomy” in Baptist polity does not shift based on people’s feelings; it is what it is.