Baptists

In my tradition, we don't do, you know, the assurance of pardon.

But really, as much, there's not a lot of Baptist churches that would do that.

But really, what I've found is that when ministers are doing this, it's pointing people back to the sufficiency of Christ's death and resurrection on their behalf and saying, you know what, if you just have faith and receive that, That's where it is.

When I first even begin to hear more of that, and forgive me, I mean, I was, you know, Baptist born, Baptist bred, when I die, I'll be Baptist dead.

So, you know, in our churches, I wasn't hearing that language of a minister of the gospel offering assurance of pardon.

When I heard that, when that hit my ears, it was more like... how is a man going to offer somebody assurance that their sins are forgiven? Well, what they're pointing to, as everyone in your traditions know, they're pointing back to the sufficiency and the mediatory work of Christ.

But yeah, you know, so Catholic priests I'd love to get.

I'd love to get a Protestant, probably like a Baptist pastor since that's the biggest American Protestant church.

And then on top of that, I'd love to get a rabbi in.

I'd love to get like a I don't know if there are really Buddhist monks in the U.S.

Oh, I got you.

Because the tradition that we came from in fundamental Baptist circles was very against gambling.

Now, I think it was more actually the chance element that bothered a lot of preachers.

Obviously, they didn't want you wasting your money when you could be giving to the church instead.

And there's a modern parallel here too, because there are plenty of Christians here in America who are very enthusiastic about government support for religious institutions like tax exemptions, having the 10 commandments in school or a courthouse, public funding where those arrangements benefit their own community.

But others are concerned about what happens when government support creates dependence or opens the door to oversight or favors one flavor of a religion over others.

And this might just be the Baptist instincts in me.

I value the independence of religious institutions from control.

All right, good morning everybody.

When I first came into class, I was in a Baptist kind of religion, and used Lord God and Jesus and all that kind of stuff.

But I never felt satisfied in the church that I was going to.

And it was to the point that...

Now, I'm talking I was maybe 14 years old.

I was a young teen.

And I went to my mother and expressed to her that I was not satisfied with the Baptist church that we were going to.

It was a non-denominational Baptist church, by the way.

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I heard of an independent Baptist church in Queensland where the membership in general did not know what the pastor was being paid.

Literally.

And it was all kept behind closed doors with the office bearers.

Welcome to the pulpit ministry of Northside Baptist Church, South Australia.

We believe the Word of God is inspired, infallible, and that it holds the answers to all of life's questions.

If you are looking for sound, uncompromising, expository preaching and teaching from God's Word, you have come to the right place.

It's not about religion.

It's not about this church versus another church.

It's not about the Anglican Church or the Baptist Church or anything like that or any other religion.

It really comes down to this.

What are you going to choose? What are you going to decide when it comes to the only begotten Son of God? Don't make it about a church.

Well, let's hear a clip of James Tallarico.

I mentioned that my granddad was a Baptist preacher.

And when I was real little, he told me that we're supposed to follow Jesus's two commandments, love God and love neighbor.

Mm-hmm.

Well, now there has been pushback, hasn't there, from the Republicans in Texas.

I wanted to play you this from the LT Dan podcast.

The Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, is talking to Dr. Robert Jeffress, a Dallas Baptist pastor.

So, Pastor, James Tanarico says he's a Christian, but I found it interesting that he said, I'm a Christian, but I hate Christianity.

He was a veteran of the Civil War.

He was also a Baptist preacher, but his main claim to fame is that he founded Temple University.

He was also part of what is known or what became known as the New Thought or Higher Thought movement that developed out of transcendentalism and other things like that, but was really more what we would know today as a prosperity gospel kind of thing, essentially channeling the universe for fun and profit.

They're

Church exploded.

The first year, we baptized more people in the history of Mississippi than any Baptist church had ever baptized in 150 years ever.

The next year, we broke the record and baptized more the next year.

Church was going great, but I wanted to come back to Georgia.