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God's
Blueprint for a Church is just what the subtitle states - a study
of Baptist distinctives. We feel such a course as this is necessary,
not because we believe (as some have falsely accused) that Baptists
will be the only ones in heaven, but because there is a definite need
for people to understand that the position we now hold and for which
people through the centuries have been persecuted and given their
lives is that defined by diligently searching God's Word.
With the resurgence of a healthy Calvinistic soteriology among Baptists
in recent history, and with the revival of serious study in the Puritan
writings of an earlier time, many Baptists who are serious about these
things have had a tendency to neglect their distinctive position in
the ecclesiology of the new Testament. This study is an attempt to
provide material for general usage by which concerned Baptist pastors
and teachers can recover their distinctive position. |