Baptist Faith and Practice – Survey Question – Regenerate Church Membership.
If your Baptist Church requires a profession of faith to be received as a member:
(1) Would your church receive the following profession?
I don’t know when I was saved. I was raised in a Christian home and I don’t remember
ever not believing in Jesus Christ. However, I believe in the work of regeneration by the
Spirit. I think that the work of the Spirit on my heart was evident by when I was about 14 or
15 years old. That’s when I can remember having independent affections for God – having a
desire to read my Bible and pray, for example. I didn’t have a conversion experience
particularly. I professed faith and was baptized when I was eight years old, but if the new
covenant birth is a change of heart, for me that happened at about 14 or 15 years old.
[From R. L. Vaughn, https://baptistsearch.blogspot.com/ 9.12.26. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
(2) Why or why not? Please give any biblical reasoning for your answer.
2. IF YOU’RE NOT BAPTIST, YOU MIGHT HAVE AN INTERESTING REPLY – BUT THIS IS A SURVEY OF BAPTIST
PRACTICE. PROCEED ACCORDINGLY.
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