Baptist Doctrine
In
One Year

Based on Pendleton's Church Manual

By
M. L. Moser, Sr.

THE CHALLENGE PRESS

P. O. Box 25848   Little Rock, Arkansas 72221

[ISBN: 0-86645-000-9]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lesson                                                                                       Page

    Preface . . 7
    Introduction . . 9

  1. Nature of a Church . . 11
  2. Moral Qualifications for Church Membership . . [14]
  3. Ceremonial Qualifications for Church Membership . . . . . . . . . [18]
  4. How to Constitute a Church Today . . 21
  5. How Members Are Received Into a Church . . 24
  6. How Membership Ceases in a Church . . 29
  7. Pastor of a Church: Qualification and Duties . . 31
  8. The Authority of Pastors . . 35
  9. The Deacons of a Church: Qualifications . . 38
  10. The Deacons of a Church: Duties . . 41
  11. Other Officers of a Church . . 44
  12. Doctrines of a Church. Need of Articles of Faith . . 47
  13. What Baptists Believe About the Bible . . 50
  14. What Baptists Believe About the True God . . 53
  15. What Baptists Believe About the Fall of Man . . 55
  16. What Baptists Believe About the Way of Salvation . . 57
  17. What Baptists Believe About Justification . . 59
  18. What Baptists Believe About the Freeness of Salvation . . . . . 61
  19. What Baptists Believe About Grace in Regeneration . . 63
  20. What Baptists Believe About Repentance & Faith . . 65
  21. What Baptists Believe About God's Purpose of Grace . . 67
  22. What Baptists Believe About Sanctification . . 69
  23. What Baptists Believe About the Perseverance of the Saints . 71
  24. What Baptists Believe about the Harmony of the
    Law and the Gospel . . 73
  25. What Baptists Believe About a Gospel Church . . 75
  26. What Baptists Believe About Baptism and the Lord's Supper 77
  27. What Baptists Believe About Sunday . . 80
  28. What Baptists Believe About Civil Government . . 82
  29. What Baptists Believe About the Final State of the
    Righteous and of the Wicked . . 84
  30. What Baptists Believe About the World to Come . . 86
  31. The Baptist Church Covenant . . 89
  32. Baptism. Part One: The Act of Baptism . . 92
  33. Baptism. Part Two: The Subject of Baptism . . 100

  1. The Lord's Supper. Part One . . 108
  2. The Lord's Supper. Part Two . . 111
  3. The Government of a Church . . 116
  4. The Independency of a Church . . 119
  5. The Independency of a Church (Same as 37) . . 119
  6. Reception, Exclusion, and Registration of Members . . . . . . . 131
  7. The Transaction of Church Business . . 135
  8. The Right of the Majority to Rule . . 138
  9. The Discipline of a Church . . 143
  10. How Excluded Members Are to Be Treated . . 158
  11. Duties Church Members Owe Each Other . . 162
  12. Duties Church Members Owe the World. Part One . . 166
  13. Duties Church Members Owe the World. Part Two . . 170
  14. God's Plan of Church Finance . . 175
  15. The Baptist Name . . 181
  16. Baptist History . . 186
  17. Baptist Cooperation . . 199
  18. Baptists and Other Denominations . . 207
  19. Our Church Last Year: Our Church Next Year . . 211

    APPENDIX

    Quotations Proving Baptist Antiquity . . 212
    Orthodox Baptist Confession of Faith . . 221

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