Resources for Evangelical Baptists
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Evangelical Roadshow: a Consultation – Final Event of this round…
Please share this news widely and encourage ministers, leaders and church members to attend. We earnestly desire your input! Hope to see you there. See below for Agenda…
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EBN Roadshow – Autumn 2024
Towards a Vision for the Union – a Consultation
7.30 pm Welcome and opening prayer / notices re: building (host minister)
7.35 pm Introduction explaining the purpose of our time together and how we’ll proceed (Nigel)
7.40 pm Where we’ve got to (Louise)
7.50 pm Our overall vision and emerging strategic objectives (Vicky)
8.00 pm Discussion in small groups – feedback (Alex)
9.00 pm Next steps – for the Core Team / Council / members (James)
9.15 pm Reflection – the need for courage and love (Yinka)
9.25 pm Finish with a song – I have decided to follow Jesus (?)
9.30 pm Close in prayer (host minister)
The Authority of Christ, the Holy Scriptures and the Baptist Union today
A pertinent and challenging discussion of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Declaration of Principle by Stephen J Roe – well worth a read!
The recent process regarding the nature of marriage in the BUGB Ministerial Recognition rules has many doctrinal and pastoral implications for all GB Baptist churches, institutions and ministers in the social context of GB today. We are all seeking to be welcoming to all people… It is now time for all Baptists in BUGB to look at the DP and decide in all sincerity if they really do still uphold the plain meaning of its opening foundational statement.
The Seoul Statement….
As part of THE FOURTH LAUSANNE CONGRESS The Seoul Statement is key as a contemporary reflection of biblical convictions and values. Well worth a read!!!
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Good News for the unborn
Jesus said that he came to bring Good News for the poor (see Luke 4:18). The word Evangelical signifies a bringer of Good News (evangelicalbaptist.uk/2023/09/29/). God summons Evangelical Baptists to proclaim the Good News of the new heavens and the new earth with no unbiblical divide between social good news and spiritual good news. The… Read…
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Whose ministry is it anyway, and what should it look like?
Given that the authority of the local church is to ‘interpret and administer His laws’ as set out in the Declaration of Principle, any understanding of church governance makes the local church, and not the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) or the accredited minister, the final arbiter of its theology of ministry. A lot… Read…
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Book Review – Vicky Beeching, Undivided:
Coming out, becoming whole and living free from shame Vicky Beeching’s autobiography, Undivided, tells the story of a young British girl, raised in a Pentecostal home, with godly parents and grandparents. This young girl grew to be a talented, gifted, intelligent woman who loved God and her evangelical church. She became a successful Christian singer/songwriter… Read…
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We Are Responsible Persons
Part 7 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman In the preceding part I wrote that conflicts churches are not so much accidents that can be prevented with good will, love and tact, as part of the structure of salvation history. God realises his… Read…
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The Role of Conflict in the Salvation History of the Old Testament
Part 6 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman In the preceding parts we dwelt at length on conflicts in church history. Someone will say, ‘But that is church history, which is full of apostasy and conflict!’ However, we will not get rid of… Read…
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The Baptist Movement is also Rooted in Conflict
Part 5 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman International Baptists The first Baptist congregations appeared in the early 17th century. They arose out of a conflict in the bosom of the English reformation of the church. For many English, the reformation in their… Read…