Evidence of the shift is seen in the churches and organization which are promoted in our Brotherhood by the influential organizations. The www.ChristianChurchToday.com (CCT) website is one such influential organization. Recently an article entitled, “Church planting, Oui!” was featured. It can be found here: http://www.christianchurchtoday.com/articles/articles.asp?id=4904
The article points out that “Churches like One Life Christian [...]
Category Archives: Shift on Baptism
Evidence of the Shift on Baptism #5
May 29, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Evidence of the Shift on Baptism #4
April 16, 2008 – 3:23 am
Overlake Christian Church (http://www.occ.org/index.asp) has a great history of reaching out to the lost in the state of Washington. It started as a Restoration Movement church and was listed as one of the Brotherhood’s megachurches in a recent issue of the Christian Standard. It is interesting to read what Overlake says about salvation and [...]
Evidence of the Shift on Baptism #3
April 11, 2008 – 12:49 pm
The phenomenal growth of Real Life Ministries in Idaho caught my eye years ago. I was always curious as to what was behind their success. Jim Putnam the minister who started the church spoke at the 2007 NACC so I was eager to hear him. As best I can recall it was a [...]
Evidence of the Shift on Baptism #2
April 1, 2008 – 12:55 pm
In 2002 the Orchard Group (formerly “Go Ye” Chapel Mission) helped plant a Southern Baptist Church in New York City. They did this by providing funding for an intern and a staff member. The church, Mosaic Manhattan, does not hold the biblical view of baptism as a condition for salvation. [...]
Evidence of the Shift on Baptism #1
March 28, 2008 – 2:51 am
There has been a shift in our Brotherhood concerning the doctrine of baptism. In the past we taught that baptism was a condition for salvation. Now many are teaching that it is an act of obedience that follows baptism. The evidence of the shift in the Brotherhood on baptism is so obvious to me that [...]
I Missed the Memo on Baptism.
March 28, 2008 – 2:27 am
Over on a thread at www.christianschurchtoday.com I made the following post. I am repeating it here as an introduction to series of posts that will be in the category “Shift on Baptism” in which I document the change in the central branch of the North American Restoration Movement of the early 19th [...]
