Status Updates From Convictional, Confessional,...

Ch 10 5 min. There is no loving lie.
Ch11 5min. Change people to change gov, we are sent to people not government office.
Ch12 8min. Is pastor a gift or office (vocation).
Ch 13 being Corinthian isn’t so bad.

Ch5 15 min. Members must have fruit & heart.
Ch6 20 min. Immersion baptism.
Ch7 23 min. Restore the value of being a member.
Ch8 14 min. Know your members.
Ch9 3 min. Spurgeon joke.

This book is very deep and I am only fact checking a few scriptures references. One very interesting fact I learned was SBC rules can mostly be found in 1 Corinthians. But yet he seems to sight other books more frequently.

Ch1. 3 min.Learning importance of being watchful and hygiene go hand and hand.

Ch2 6 min. You can’t be autonomous and part of a group, you are either in convention with common belief or your not.

Ch3 11 min. Without belief in writing and trusted you will dissolve into oblivion like the northern Baptist convention. Souther Seminary was quite liberal until 1993 with prof belief in abortion and homosexuality.

6 min The introduction, foreword, preface, etc does a good job of stating the unpleasantries of what comes to mind of most outside the reformed congregations. Feeling the word they use most is the thing they lack most. Example most who claim gracious are frequent the short tempered.

Given this book by author at the Salt & Light conference at ShadowBrook January 2025

Let us say what we mean. “Some Baptists who have pushed against confessions have done so because of an over-realized and poorly understood concept of soul competency; this replaced the priesthood of all believers with the priesthood of the individual believer.” Reading this book to combat the chopped Baptist belief book I’m reading for class….