WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: BAPTISTS AND CHURCH

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

BAPTISTS AND CHURCH

Baptists

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called 

Keswick Preaching and then Practical Perversion: the Unaffiliated

Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 1

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 2

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 3

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 4

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 5

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 6

The Most Divisive of All Independent Baptists: Let's Think about It

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel, pt. 2

Southern Baptist Evangelism and Unregenerate Evangelicals

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 2

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 3

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 4

Baptist History

The Anabaptists Did Not Get the Trinity From Constantine, and the Ancient Arians Were Bloody Persecutors

Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?

The Falsehood of English Separatism

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

Theology and Baptist History As It Dovetails with World History

A Trail of Blood

The Two Book Approach and English Separatism

The Waldenses Controversy

Church

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism"

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.1

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.2

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.3

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.4

As the Church Is Subject Unto Christ

The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible

"Body of Christ" Defined

Church Autonomy, Pastoral Authority, Closed Communion, and the Gospel: The Means Becoming the End

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

Cleverness

The Conference

Correcting False Doctrine Outside of Your Church: Permissible or Encouraged in Scripture?

The Eclecticism of Today's Churches

Distinctions in Churches and Characteristics of Churches: I Know What Distinguishes Ours

Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church

God's Evaluation of the Judgment of an Individual Church

Horrible and Yet Typical Ecclesiological Explanation

How to Handle Doctrinal and Practical Problems with Other Churches

I Don't Choose What Distinguishes Our Church, But It Still Does

Judgment Must Begin in the House of God

Judgment Must Begin in the House of God, pt. 2

A Leaky Container and Its Spoiled Contents

The Meaning of the Word Church According to ReligiousAffections.Org

Missing the Mark: 9 Marks Aren’t Enough (J)

Open Letter on the Integrity of the New Testament Church (Gary Webb)

Pastors and Churches That Accept Our Former Members

Repentance and the Baptist Church Constitution (T)

Scripture Repudiates Innovation in and by the Church

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 1

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 2

The Start of the Church: Who, When, and What Difference Does It Make?

Temples

Unity Beyond the Church

What About Special Music in the Church?

What NT Churches can Do to Oppose Sodomite Marriage, Abortion, and Economic Theft

Where to Live, Life, and the Choice of a Church

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 1 (J)

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 2 (J)

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 3 (J)

A World of Lies Starting with a Church of Lies

Church:  Authority

How Does a Gathering of People Obtain Church Authority?

Is There Any Spiritual Authority Outside of a Church and Other than the Lord Jesus Christ?

Church:  Autonomy

Christian Liberty and Its Relationship to Church Autonomy and Sola Scriptura

Church:  Discipline

Observations about Church Discipline from 1 Corinthians 5

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 1 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 2 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 3 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 4 (J)

Church:  Faithfulness

How Faithful Is Faithful to Church

Church:  Growth

The Apology Owed to Jack Hyles and Jack Schaap (J)

The Apostle Paul and Ethics in Evangelism: Exposing the Corruption of Modern Methods

Blessing, Keswick, and Man-Centered Methods

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used)

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used), pt. 2

The Burden of Man Centered Evangelism

The Choice Between Regulating Church Growth Methodology by Scripture or by Silence

Church Decrease Movement (CDM): Faithful Numerical Church Decrease

Church Growth Hypocrisy

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

Concepts in Church Growth Philosophy Which Dumb Down Love

Crowds

Did He Invite?

Evangelical Mumbo Jumbo: Ziplines and Worship Wars

The Evil Junction of False Gospel, Distorted Sanctification, Success, Church Growth, Second 

Greater Works: What Are We to Expect?

Halfway Measures

How Does Levi's Feast for Jesus Apply to Evangelistic Methodology?

How Does Modern Church Growth Not Compare to Church Growth in the Bible, part one

How Giving Up or Stopping Door-to-Door Evangelism Will Grow or Build Your Church

I Don't Think Most Christians Even Know What the Great Commission Is

John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins

John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins, pt. 2

Key for Evangelistic Church

Lure Them In, pt. 1

Lure Them In, pt. 2

Lure Them In, pt. 3

Lure Them In, pt. 4

Lure Them In, pt. 5

One Particular Corruption of Repentance to Accommodate a Methodology, Success, and Numbers

Pandering: The Actual Tie that Binds Most of American Churches

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: Social Justice Panderers

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: His Antidote to Pandering

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 1

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 2

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 3

The Relationship of How Evangelical and Fundamentalist Churches Operate Today to How Our Government Functions

Rick Warren and Jack Hyles: What’s Changed? (J)

Show Time: Making the Gospel About Us (J)

30, 60, 100: Can We Conclude That More Fruit Was Caused by the One Receiving the Seed?

This Is Not Jack Hyles

What Can We Conclude from How Big Churches Get or How Small They Are?

Church:  History and Historic Teaching

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism"

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

Calvin 500

Children Scribble Scrabbling: Interpretation of History and Reformed Theology

Comments on Luther's 95 Theses

Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?

Epistemology and the History of the Church

The Falsehood of English Separatism

Halfway Measures

History of Doctrine:  Historic Ecclesiology

The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (T)

Selective Reformation

Selective Reformation, part two

Selective Reformation, part three

Selective Reformation, part four

Selective Reformation, part five

Since Jesus Sang in the Church, Well...

Theology and Baptist History As It Dovetails with World History

A Trail of Blood

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 2 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 3 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 4 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 5 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 6 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 7 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 8 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 9 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 10 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 11 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 2 (T)

Church:  Leadership

Are the Qualifications for the Office of the Pastor Also Disqualifications?

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part one

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part two

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part three

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part four

How Did "Old Time Fundamentalists Act When Their Leaders Did Stupid Things"?

How Much Should Church Leadership Be Involved In Governmental or Political Matters?

Intimidating with Bigness

Church:  Local

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism"

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder's "Landmarkism", pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.1

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.2

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.3

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.4

"Body of Christ" Defined

Container for Truth

Careful Exegesis

Ekklesia

Ekklesia Means "Assembly"

Ekklesia Means "Assembly", part two

Ekklesia Means "Assembly" pt. 3

Flock Teaching

Horrible and Yet Typical Ecclesiological Explanation

Koine Parallels to Ephesians 5:23 Show That NT Only Provides Invisible Support to the Invisible, 

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 2

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 3

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 4

The Meaning of the Word Church According to ReligiousAffections.Org

Thoughts on "People of God: The Church" by Kevin Bauder

Universal Church (T)

The Use of the Singular in the Bible, and the Church

Church:  Membership

Church Membership and the Marriage Covenant

Church:  Ordinances (Baptism and the Lord's Supper)

Acts 2:38--Baptism Essential to Salvation? (T)

Acts 22:16--Baptism Essential for Salvation? (T)

Baptism:  Why So Far?

Building Tool (J)

Communion (J)

The Lord’s Supper: Close, Closed, or In-Between? (T)

Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches

Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches, part 2 (T)

Reception of the Elements (J)

Unrestrained Theology (Infant Sprinkling)

What Is the Communion of the Lord's Table? (J)

Why Closed Communion? (J)

Church:  Pastor

“Having Faithful Children” in Titus 1:6 (J)

Expecting Pastors to Pastor Tentmaking

Unlearned and Ignorant Men

Church:  Planting

Church Planting Foolishness

Our Strategy for Sacramento, California part one

Our Strategy for Sacramento, California part two

Church:  Sufficiency of the Church

Dan, Bethel, and Parachurch Organizations (J)

Looking for Help in All the Wrong Places

Church:  Universal (see Church:  Local)

The Ambiguity, Confusion, Contradiction, and License of Universal Church Practice

Body of Christ Defined

Paul Bunyan in the Bible?

The Use of the Singular in the Bible, and the Church