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When people identify themselves with a label like “Lutheran,” “Presbyterian,” or “Baptist,” they’re really identifying themselves with a combination of convictions. The labels help distinguish one set of convictions from another. Dr. Kevin Bauder says, “Increasingly, church members display an astonishing lack of knowledge about just what Baptists believe.” In Baptist Distinctives, he not only...

Testament tells us what the church is supposed to do. Only the New Testament tells us how the church is supposed to be organized. In fact, when Baptists speak about the church, they often specify that it is the “New Testament Church” that they have in mind. Although the sole authority of the New Testament for church faith and order is the first principle of the Baptists, they are not the only ones who have acknowledged it. Ulrich Zwingli was led to begin the Reformation in Zurich after a careful
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