What does WCF stand for? (From Ivan)

[Ivan]

Okay, enlighten me. What is the WCF?

 

[Ivan]

Aha! Got it!

Whew! How do you guys put up with us Baptist?!

 

[Irishcat922]

We tolerate each other!:bigsmile:

 

[Ivan]

Originally posted by joshua

Originally posted by Ivan
Aha! Got it!

Whew! How do you guys put up with us Baptist?!

Who said I was Presbyterian? :bigsmile:

AHA!! An enlighten Baptist? Hmmm...sounds to Gnostic to me!!

 

[Ivan]

Originally posted by Irishcat922
We tolerate each other!:bigsmile:

Is that what Stonewall would say?

 

[Ivan]

So what is "TBC"? Bible church? I've always wondered how the Bible churches started. It's not a denomination, is it?

 

[inspector]

The Baptist Church?

 

[Ivan]

Originally posted by inspector
The Baptist Church?

Must be Landmark!!

 

[Ivan]

Originally posted by joshua

Originally posted by Ivan
So what is "TBC"? Bible church? I've always wondered how the Bible churches started. It's not a denomination, is it?

Trinity Baptist Church

It's Arminian, Southern Baptist. I'm a member there, but I'm not actively going there.

I see. Yes, most SBC churches are Arminian. No doubt about that. So where do you attend church?

 

[Ivan]

Originally posted by joshua
At a Reformed Baptist Church here in ttown.

I want to attend a good Reformed church soon...Baptist and/or Presbyterian.

 

[Authorised]

Originally posted by Ivan
So what is "TBC"? Bible church? I've always wondered how the Bible churches started. It's not a denomination, is it?

It's not a denomination, but it seems like it because the doctrinal positions are very similar. Most of the ministers tend to be McArthur type Dispensational Calvinists who take a vague stance on the issue of limited atonement. Believer's baptism is practiced and the RPW basically means nothing, but generally they're more reserved in worship than an average SBC church. They are independent and ruled by a plurality of elders.

 

[Authorised]

I do also hope people on this board can forgive my use of the phrase "Dispensational Calvinist"

 

[Authorised]

I was being facetious...

when I read it again I realized that "Dispensational Calvinist" was the truest example of an oxymoron.

 

[Ivan]

[Believer's baptism is practiced and the RPW basically means nothing, but generally they're more reserved in worship than an average SBC church.

Whoa! Then they must be falling asleep! :bigsmile: Kidding. The RPW is the biggest problem I see in Southern Baptist church...well, one of them anyway. To me the worship in most of our churches is often man-centered. It makes me VERY comfortable.

It's difficult for me to turn my back on Southern Baptists. I've been one for a very long time. I've always been something of a misfit, but it's the church in which I grew up and where I came to trust Christ as my Lord and Savior.

I know of Southern Baptist churches that are very respectful in their worship of God, who know nothing of the RPW. In fact, the church in which I grew up is very much like that. That is, until the gospel groups come to church to sing! Boy, oh, boy, I didn't like those Sundays!!