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The New Testament specifies a threefold division within the local church (Phil 1:1). First are the saints, the members of the church. Then are the bishops or overseers. Then are the deacons or servants. Almost all churches understand bishops and deacons to be offices of the church. Without these offices a church cannot be fully ordered.
Some churches also introduce a t...
Baptists are certainly not the only Christians. Christians are defined by their belief in the gospel, which includes their commitment to Jesus Christ and their trust in His finished work. Genuine Baptists confess the gospel and all that it entails, but so do other Christians.
What makes Baptists different from those other Christians? Baptists are defined by their ideas...
When I came to Central Seminary nearly thirty years ago, I had little exposure to the biblical or nouthetic counseling movement. I had read Jay Adams’s Competent to Counsel as an undergrad, but that was years before. I couldn’t have told you how nouthetic counseling differed from the teachings of Bill Gothard, which I had discovered to be biblically flawed. I had a s...
Christians debate the meaning of the Lord’s table. All agree that it is a picture of the gospel and a memorial of the sufferings of Christ. But is it more than that? Many—perhaps most—professing Christians want to see some real presence of the Lord in the communion elements. What they disagree about is how the Lord is present.
Catholics insist that the eucharistic elem...
[This essay was originally published on October 3, 2020.]
All people everywhere want justice. Even a hardcore logical positivist feels a sense of injustice if you step ahead of him after hours of waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The universal yearning for justice has been expressed in documents from the Code of Hammurabi and the book of Job to the ...