I am not Southern Baptist, I believe this comment below by Malcolm Yarnell III is
worthwhile for general instruction for all of us who are Baptists. Many Baptists
seem to think they are just evangelicals, but there are reasonable reasons to
understand that we actually are not.
[From R. L. Vaughn, https://baptistsearch.blogspot.com/2026/06/. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.
“...Southern Baptists must never compromise those beliefs which have made us
Baptists: specifically, the drive for a regenerate New Testament church
membership, founded upon the biblical and historical doctrine of the
divine–human covenant, evidenced at first in the ordinance of believers-only
baptism by immersion, continually expressed in the ordinance of the Lord’s
Supper, lovingly maintained by the practice of local church discipline, and
fervently expanded by the expository proclamation of the Word of God. Southern
Baptists will endeavour to speak these and other non-negotiable truths in love,
inviting evangelicals inter alia to join us in becoming consistent with
Scripture, not only theologically but ecclesiologically.”