Brad Lenzner sent this Reuters story reporting that baptisms are a twenty-year low in the SBC. Wag that he is, he suggests that one way to boost their baptism numbers would be to start baptizing their children.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Yeah, but then he’d be guilty of not shaking of all his evangelicalism and being too concerned about numbers. Sometimes you can’t win for losing with us, can you?
Seriously, though, I love tongue-in-cheek as much as the next guy, but I’d rather see the tolerated “Bapterianism” in our circles run out on a rail before suggesting that Baptists behave like, well, non-Baptists.
Nevertheless, good one, Brad.
Zrim,
I’ll take one for the team on the numbers concern.
Why not go for the best of both worlds…suggest that Baptists behave like non-Baptists and long for “Bapterianism”in our circles to run out on a rail…at the same time?
I always enjoy your comments even if I can’t win for losing with you!