The Development Of Baptist Membership Practices
INTRODUCTION
Numerous historians have concluded that the story of the Baptist denomination begins with believers who were passionate about the purity of the church, men and women in search of a New Testament church and committed to that mission. R. Stanton Norman, director for the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry and professor of theology at New Orleans Baptists Seminary, has argued that to understand the history of the Baptist people, one must—at least in part—see their development “as the desire of a group of earnest believers to have a church that exists and functions in complete submission to the authority of the New Testament.” Baptists throughout history have maintained, based on their study of and desired obedience to New Testament teaching, that regeneration is required prior to entrance into the church. As one author expressed this view, “the true church is composed of true believers.”
As time passed, however, many Baptists lost the original vision for a......
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