Upon this Rock: A Baptist Understanding of the ChurchA recent conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary featured speakers addressing topics set forth in the article on "The Church" in the Southern Baptist Convention's Baptist Faith and Message statement. Upon This Rock gathers those presentations and answers such questions as: - What is the basis for our denominational distinctives? Contributors include Malcolm B Yarnell III ("Upon This Rock I Will Build My Church: A Theological Exposition of Matthew 16:13-20"), Paige Patterson ("Observing the Two Ordinances of Christ"), Thomas and Joy White ("Church Officers and Gender: Can Women Be Pastors? Or Deacons?") and Bart Barber ("A Denomination of Churches: Biblical and Useful") as well as Jason G. Duesing, David Allen, Emir F. Caner, James Leo Garrett, Jr., and Byron McWilliams. |
Contents
The Duty of Baptists to Teach Their | 1 |
Upon this Rock I Will Build My Church A 1 Theological | 24 |
Crucial Baptist Distinctive 2 | 57 |
Covenant or Confusion? 3 Associated by Covenant in the Faith | 84 |
Observing Two OrdinancesAre They Merely Symbols? 4 | 102 |
Under the Lordship of Christ through | 116 |
Biblical and Useful 6 | 133 |
A Pastors Perspective 7 | 152 |
Can Women Be Pastors? | 174 |
The Universal and Local Church 9 | 208 |
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