Regenerate Church Membership

The idea of regenerate church membership comes from the biblical teaching that local churches are to be comprised of those who can legitimately lay claim to designations restricted to recipients of the new birth. All efforts to see churches grow and increase in membership should be governed by this principle so that the integrity of God’s saving power in the gospel can me maintained before a watching world. In other words, if their churches are to follow the pattern of those described in the New Testament, Baptists must insist that only genuine Christians are qualified to be members. Publisher: Founders Type: Booklet ISBN: 9781943539475 ______________ Tom Ascol has served as a Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, FL since 1986. He has a BS degree in sociology from Texas A&M University (1979) and has also earned the MDiv and PhD degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. He has served as an adjunct professor of theology for various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary, the Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, African Christian University, Copperbelt Ministerial College, and Reformed Baptist Seminary. In addition to being a pastor, Tom also serves as the President of Founders Ministries and The Institute of Public Theology, and edits the Founders Journal, a quarterly theological publication of Founders Ministries. ______________