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Originally Posted by tfelice  I was wondering if anyone here belongs to or knows of a credobaptist church that admits paedobaptists into membership. I would like to take a look at their Constitution and the wording that is used.
I have a copy of the proposal that was in the works at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, but would like to compare theirs with others.
Thanks | Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol has had that rule since the 17th century (see Broadmead Baptist Church: Style of Fellowship & Worship.)
Also John Bunyan's church, Bedford Museum, has done likewise from the same era to today.
Bunyan defends that practice in books " A Holy Life: the Beauty of Christianity" and " Differences in Judgement About Water Baptism No Bar To Communion." The essentials of Bunyan's view are given by DM Lloyd-Jones' essay John Bunyan: Church Union in The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors published by Banner of Truth. I commend Bunyan's argument to all.
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In Christ's love and service
Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon
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