You may have read the short reflection by a dismissed pastor Tim Stephens, Was it Belief or Behaviour. This is a longer response by another dismissed pastor Derek DeVries, that includes much documentary evidence to challenge the narrative: 1) that the matter was unrelated to complementarianism, and 2) that the churches were divisive. It is...
Month: May 2026
Was it Belief or Behaviour?(en français aussi)
Tim Stephens, pastor of one of the churches dismissed in FEB Prairies, responds to today’s FEB National email. Was it really behaviour that saw three churches removed from the Fellowship or was it belief? Read blog: https://www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca/was-it-beliefs-or-behavior/ 2026.05.28 CROYANCES OU COMPORTEMENTS
FEB National Correspondence, May 8, 2026
In this national correspondence Steve Jones and Jon Stairs share about the recent suspension of 3 churches in FEBP. They offer their perspective on the dismissals and offer personal exhortations and clarifications as to their understanding of FEBN. Read here: FEBN Email_May 8_2026
Why is it so Hard to Reform Baptist Denominations? (Paul Carter)
Baptist denominations in North America appear to be navigating through some very choppy waters at the moment. Some of the concerns have to do with doctrine, others have to do with practice, but all of them are complicated by polity. One of the challenges with Baptist denominational polity is that the people on the governing...
Another Three Bite the Dust
Yesterday at the Prairies regional convention for the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada (FEB) our church, along with two others (Fellowship Baptist Church, Edmonton and Park City Gospel Church, Winnipeg), were voted out. Our 66 year membership in the Fellowship was terminated. We were told this was not because of our beliefs but...