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Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives \u2013Historic Baptist Ecclessiology<\/strong> – INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n IF GOD’S WORD IS TRUE, THE CHURCH THAT JESUS STARTED STILL STANDS–HAS ENDURED!<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (I Tim. 3:15.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recorded history often reveals more of historians’ prejudices than of actual events, and the history of Christianity has been written mostly by the enemies of Baptists. Even so, there is historical evidence for the continued existence of what would now be called Baptist churches from the days when Jesus was on earth in the flesh down to the present time. This evidence is not beyond dispute but it is more than sufficient if we are willing to believe the promises of God’s word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My purpose here is to show from the Bible, APART FROM ALL HISTORICAL EVIDENCE, that we must believe in Baptist church perpetuity if we believe that God’s Word is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Solemn Warning<\/p>\n\n\n\n When men reject Bible truth about the church, and refuse to recognize its rightful place as the body and bride of Christ, the house of God, the pillar and ground of the truth, they quickly lose other truth as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The truth of God’s Word is still upheld in the world today because of the faithfulness and the martyrs’ blood of the true churches of God through the dark ages, and this truth will still be upheld to the end of the age because there will still be some churches, the true churches of our Lord, to serve as the pillar and ground of the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas E. Kresal from: \u201cTen Bible Proofs Of Baptist Perpetuity\u201d by Rosco Brong www.gracebbc.dyndns.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n