Paul Carter, a Fellowship Pastor, writes for The Gospel Coalition Canada: “This passage [Acts 20:7-28] is particularly helpful because it uses the word for elder, presbyteros, again in the plural form, as well as the word for overseer, episkopos, also in the plural, and the word for shepherd, poimainō, in the infinitive, which can also be translated “to...
Month: February 2026
Stephens, The Fellowship’s Unity Crisis
“Now here we are 20 years later, the differences of theology remain and in fact are exacerbated. Eight faithful churches have been removed and more may be on the way. Our church has been in tension with our region for 10 years because I questioned why our region was not complying with national bylaws. Our...
FEB Central Communication About Excommunication of 8 Churches
“The result of the special convention was the removal of the 8 churches in question. Although this is not what anyone wanted, one positive outcome is that all those involved on both sides of the issue behaved in a Christ honoring manner.” … “In recent days several pastors have asked for confirmation of the official...
Eight Churches Removed from FEB Pacific
“Several themes emerged in the discussion on the microphones. From the “for” side, arguing for the removal of the churches, it was emphasized that the churches continued to advocate with National—proof they had not accepted the region’s decision at IMPACT 2025. It was also mentioned multiple times that the eight churches themselves viewed that egalitarian-practicing...
Haykin, On FEB Canada and Its Affirmation of Faith
“Christian denominations are created by confessions; and these confessions are liminal, they create boundaries. Hopefully, this liminality is about secondary matters and not tertiary issues. The distinction between secondary and tertiary issues is of vital importance here.1 In Romans 14, for instance, Paul deals with tertiary matters of food and holy days. In more recent...
Crocker, Gender and the Pastoral Office
Article by Chris Crocker, Toronto Baptist Seminary, “Mankind, created by God, was male and female. This design He pronounced “very good” (Gen 1:27) and is to His glory Men and women were created equal in value and complementary in role to fulfil the Creation mandate of exercising dominion over the earth; reflecting the image of...
Haykin, On the Expulsion of Eight Churches
From Dr. Michael Haykin, eminent church historian and Heritage professor: “Despite the fact that some 50-60 Fellowship Baptist churches here in the East pled with the BC churches not to move in this direction, the BC region went ahead with their expulsion. Much more could be said, but I wish to go on record that...
FEB Central Communication on Upcoming Vote to Remove 8 Churches in FEB Pacific
“From the other side of the country, we are in no position to judge the situation. No matter how much we believe that we understand, we simply were not there and we lack information. Please rest assured that leaders from both FEB Central and Fellowship National have been in conversations with Fellowship Pacific leadership. We...