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...
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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...
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...
TGC Canada: What Is a Complementarian Church?
Paul Carter, a Fellowship Pastor, writes for The Gospel Coalition Canada: “Churches cannot plant other churches until they agree together who will preach the sermon, who will handle discipline and who will sit on the Board of Overseers. Denominations cannot run seminaries until they decide who they will admit to their MDiv programs, who they...
Tim Stephen’s CBMW Article on the Fellowship
“One of the questions I have is this: Will the Fellowship follow the Christian & Missionary Alliance, which now ordains women pastors? Will steps toward a “soft egalitarianism” be tolerated by the national convention? It must be remembered that typically practice changes before policy. That is, one church then a growing number of churches adopt...