ANDREW DAVIS, BENJAMIN MERKLE, JOHN HAMMETT, JONATHAN LEEMAN, KIRK WELLUM, MARK DEVER, MICHAEL A. G. HAYKIN, SHAWN WRIGHT, STEPHEN WELLUM, THOMAS SCHREINER, THOMAS WHITE
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 membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances.
Each section explores the pastoral applications of these arguments. How do congregationalism and elder leadership work together? When should a church practice church discipline? How can one church work with another in matters of membership and discipline?
To be read sequentially or used as a reference guide,Ā Baptist FoundationsĀ provides a contemporary treatment of Baptist church government and structures, the first of its kind in decades.
432 pages
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