In his highly influential Manual of Theology, John Dagg concludes with a small portion entitled “The Duty of Baptists.” I want to provide an excerpt from his final point, which was: “It is our duty to promote the spiritual unity of the universal church, by the exercise of brotherly love to all who bear the [...]
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John Dagg on The Duty of Baptists
February 26, 2009The Duty of Every Southern Baptist Church
June 12, 2008On the heels of the convention consensus regarding the necessity of a regenerate church membership and our corporate repentance thereof, I thought it would be pertinent to provide this quote by John L. Dagg, who has arguably written the best book on Baptist polity among Southern Baptists. Exactly 150 years ago, Dagg wrote the following, [...]
Criminal Negligence Notwithstanding
May 29, 2008John L. Dagg, in his excellent book Manual of Church Order, writes the following: In our definition of a church, we have called it an assembly of believers in Christ. This definition tells what a church is according to the revealed will of God, and not what it becomes by the criminal negligence of its [...]
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