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Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Developments like seeker churches, mega-churches, and emerging churches have brought ecclesiology to the forefront of evangelical debate. But too often important questions are answered solely on the basis of pragmatism or cultural relevance. What does it really mean to be the church? In this practical book, former pastor and missionary John Hammett helps church leaders think through the...

mark may also be called the principle of regenerate church membership. At the first Baptist World Congress in 1905, J. D. Freeman said of Baptists, “This principle of a regenerated Church membership, more than anything else, marks our distinctiveness in the Christian world today.”2 More recently, Justice Anderson has affirmed its centrality for the Baptist doctrine of the church: “The cardinal principle of Baptist ecclesiology, and logically, the point of departure for church polity, is the insistence
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