Saturday, June 13, 2009

Baptist Acronym

I like looking at statements of faith, confessions, creeds, lists of denominational distinctives. These types of documents show how groups organize their beliefs into a comprehensible whole. Fascinating. And there are a lot of great stories about how these documents come to be. I particularly like this list of distinctives:

B Biblical authority
A Autonomy of the local church
P Priesthood of the believer
T Two ordinances (Believer's Baptism and Communion)
I Individual soul liberty
S Separation of Church and State
T Two offices of the church (Pastor and Deacon)

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