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May 16, 2019

Off on a Side Track

Here is a curious article from 1904 that could have started, “A preacher gets on a train with a Baptist and a Methodist. . . .” Actually, this is more a transcribed conversation than article. One might wonder, Was this real or imagined? Did it really occur? _ _ _ Off on a Side Track By Joseph A. WaltersOct. 1, 1904; p. 11 “I don’t like your exclusive baptism,” said a Methodist preacher to a Baptist preacher, a few years ago, on a train on which I was traveling in a Western State. B. Why do you dislike it? M.

April 19, 2009

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Congregational Membership and Worshiping Community”“A Reflection on Church Polity

Â By C. Robert Wetzel One of the most divisive issues to plague the heirs of the Restoration Movement was the question of “open membership.” It became a symbol for a number of growing differences that were emerging among Christian churches early in the 20th century. But in many respects it was an unresolved question from the earliest days of the movement. That history is well documented, and I will not go into it here. In its starkest form, the issue centered on the recognition that the Scriptures taught baptism by immersion of repentant believers for the remission of sins