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REASSIGNED is now available.

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  by Bart Denny After a lot of writing, rewriting, cutting, adding, checking sources, arguing with sentences, and wondering more than once whether this thing would ever actually be finished, I’m happy to say that my new book is now available on Amazon . Reassigned: Military Lessons for Ministry Leadership grew out of a question I’ve been wrestling with for years: What happens to everything the military formed in us when the uniform comes off? For me, the answer became especially important when my own life took an unexpected turn. I spent nearly twenty-two years in the U.S. Navy. I served on submarines and destroyers, commanded two coastal patrol ships, deployed overseas, and eventually finished my military career on a major combatant command staff. Years later, I found myself in seminary and then in pastoral ministry. Those two worlds can feel very far apart. And they are. A church is not a warship. A pastor is not a commanding officer. Church members are not sailors who...
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A Baptist Bride? An Analysis of “Old Landmarkism”

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This paper will show that “Old Landmarkism," or "Baptist Bride" theology, is an extreme variant of Baptist ecclesiology that is historically untenable and far out of line with traditional Baptist ecclesiology. Further, Landmarkism is also far removed from the New Testament practices Landmarkism purports to champion. This paper will briefly examine the historical roots of the Landmark Controversy and its influence on Baptist groups and denominations, particularly in the southern United States. The author will paper will examine the tenets of Landmark ecclesiology—including “Baptist succession” (or “Baptist perpetuity”), the marks of a “true” church, Baptist separation, and the Lord’s Supper. In all cases, this paper will show Landmark views of Baptist separation, succession, and the ordinances of the church—while emerging from valid concerns—are taken to an unbiblical extreme. A Brief History of the Old Landmark Movement It is beyond the scope of this paper to trace the c...
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