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DMcFadden · #82 (**permalink**) 06-25-2008, 03:34 PM

Mike,

As I indicated in some of my posts here and on another thread, Baptists are horribly inconsistent on this and many other things. Stepping outside the tiny world of confessional Baptists for a moment, EVERY Baptist pastor I ever met believed that Presbyterians (particularly evangelical as opposed to liberal ones) and Baptists share most of their theology in common and we are indeed brethren in Christ. As I noted, my last church only permitted transfer of membership of Baptists to our congregation. Those from other traditions (paedo or credo), joined our congregation by "Christian experience" (= profession that they were Christians and that they had been baptized somehow and somewhere). This would not be exactly true for confessional Baptists who take their doctrine of baptism somewhat more seriously. However, recognize that we ALL accept the validity of other people's Christian experience even when we have even greater theological disagreements with them than this one over baptism. Billy Graham is a hero of mine, flaming Arminian that he is notwithstanding. Same with Tozer. I praise the Lord for the ministry of Chuck Smith in Calvary Chapel, but have GRAVE reservations about the "charismatic movement" (cf. some of Rich's strong observations in various posts about the situation overseas).