A pertinent and challenging discussion of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Declaration of Principle by Stephen J Roe – well worth a read! The Authority of Christ, the Holy Scriptures and the Baptist Union today The recent process regarding… Read More »The Authority of Christ, the Holy Scriptures and the Baptist Union today
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… Read More »Whose ministry is it anyway, and what should it look like?
In my PhD thesis, An exploration of classical and emergent theologies of ordained / accredited Baptist ministry amongst Baptist ministers within the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) (Garland, 2022), I resolved to identify some key theological ideas surrounding the… Read More »A Ministry of Word?
When evangelicals state that they reject homosexual practice and the possibility of same-sex marriage, they are often accused of judging others and told that this is not a Christian attitude. Didn’t Jesus himself tell us not to judge? We are… Read More »Judging and Judgment
and reflection on their significance for renewal in contemporary Baptist experience. Whilst the renewal of the Particular Baptists was indeed the ‘result of a complex matrix of factors’, this essay attempts to identify some of the more significant influences on… Read More »An Examination of renewal in Particular Baptist life during the period 1760-1815:
In this article I will consider the principle of integrity in ministry and why adhering to that integrity strictly prohibits persons participating in same sex relationships from holding the office of ordained/accredited ministry within our Baptists Together network of churches. … Read More »Ministerial Integrity
This letter can be used as a template by Baptist Minister’s to personalise and send to your own local MP Dear Sir, I am a minister of a Baptist Church. I now write to you about a matter that has… Read More »A letter to my MP
Simon is an accredited Baptist minister who prefers not to give away more details about himself than you find in his testimony. He wrote this testimony at our request and gave us permission to use it here. I, Pieter Lalleman,… Read More »Pilgrimage
The Wider Picture Today. Testing Times The article from the ESV Study Bible was written before the UK introduced Same-Sex marriage. It has proved to be prophetic. Christian Adoption agencies who refuse homosexual adoption have been closed down, and the… Read More »Christian Ministers: The Call to Faithfulness
‘What’s the point, they’ll do what they want anyway’ ‘Our church cannot see why we are even in the Baptist Union’ ‘There is a general drift towards liberalism’. These represent the three most common comments I have received over the… Read More »Why should I engage with the BU consultation?