God’s
Blueprint for a Church is just what the subtitle states — a study of Baptist
distinctives. We feel such a course as this is necessary, not because we
believe (as some have falsely accused) that Baptists will be the only ones in
Heaven, but because there is a definite need for people to understand that the
position we now hold and for which people through the centuries have been
persecuted and given their lives is that defined by diligently searching God’s
Word … With the resurgence of a healthy Calvinistic soteriology among Baptists
in recent history, and with the revival of serious study in the Puritan
writings of an earlier time, many Baptists who are serious about these things
have had a tendency to neglect their distinctive position in the ecclesiology
of the New Testament. This study is an attempt to provide material for general
usage by which concerned Baptist pastors and teachers can recover their
distinctive position.
