Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – Historic Baptist Ecclessiology – Part 7 of 11

Thomas E Kresal Admin · 1 hr February 10, 2020

Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives –Historic Baptist Ecclessiology – Part 7 of 11

6. A Holy Temple

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building [or, better, every building] fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.” (Eph. 2:19-22.)

Paul was writing to the church at Ephesus and he reveals here the glorious fact that a true New Testament church is a holy temple in the Lord, and that one purpose for which the Lord built His church at Ephesus, and, we believe, every other true New Testament church, is that God in the Spirit might dwell therein·

Can anyone believe that God, having chosen to manifest His presence in a special way in the churches of the Lord Jesus, allowed His purpose to be frustrated, so that for centuries He had no such habitation on earth? But Protestants do so declare, and countless Baptists, ignorant of or indifferent to their blood-bought heritage, are deceived by or are silent in the face of this monstrous lie!

Thomas E. Kresal from: “Ten Bible Proofs of Baptist Perpetuity” by Rosco Brong

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