Wednesday, November 29, 2023

J. R. Graves of the Landmark Baptist Movement vs. Non-Baptistic Protestant Faiths

  

AXIOMS

 

“1. That unummersed bodies of Christians are not churches, nor are any privileged companies of them the church, hence all Pedo-Baptists denominations are only religious societies.

 

“2. That Baptism and an official relation to a church are prerequisites to a regular gospel minister—hence all ordinances administered by an unbaptized and unordained although immersed minister, are null and void.” (J. R. Graves, “A Statement of Landmark Principles,” 1857, in H. Leon McBeth, A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage [Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman Press, 1990], 319)