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The Baptist Way: Distinctives of the Baptist Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

The greatest contribution of Baptists to orthodox Christianity may well be in the area of ecclesiology. From their earliest beginnings, Baptists have been thoroughly committed to planting and building churches that are completely faithful to the New Testament. At the dawn of a new millennium, Baptists must continue to follow biblical ideals so that Baptist churches will continue to the kingdom...

does not discover new truth, it does make explicit what is implicit within the revelatory tradition.1 Rome claims to have an interpretation of the written revelation in its tradition carried on within the church as secret, unwritten, and apostolic. The church, as God’s representative on earth, maintains that it is infallible in its interpretation of the written revelation. Therefore, when the church speaks, it speaks with the same authority as if the Lord himself were speaking. The church controls
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