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Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament. What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church...

Several lessons follow. First, polity protects churches from heretics and hypocrites, and so protects the gospel. By pounding the gavel and rendering a verdict on false gospel professions, the church clarifies its message. Second, the what and the who of the gospel are the most significant matters of polity, even more than who the leaders are. The church is its gospel-believing members, and their everyday lives and words will impact the nations’ opinion of Jesus more than bad headlines about fallen church
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