Church Polity Properly Understood
By Edwin Charles Dargan, 1905

      Church polity properly understood refers only to the organization of the local churches and their relation to other bodies. A church, then, in the Baptist view of the matter, is a local body or society of baptized believers in Christ, where the true worship of God is observed, the word of God is preached and the ordinances of the New Testament are properly administered.

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Ecclesiology, A Study of the Churches, Louisville, KY: Charles T. Dearing, 1905, p. 22, via baptistsearch.blogspot.com. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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