The Baptist Particular

What Does It Mean To Be Reformed?

The sermons from which this tract sprang were preached to the Grace Baptist Church of Danville in Danville, Kentucky - USA, November 2, 1997 by Pastor Don Fortner. The tract is taken directly…

Featured, Peter Meney on Doctrinal Matters

SINAI – The Way Of Death

Sinai is a desert; a barren, desolate, inhospitable and largely lifeless place. How suitable that God should give the law in Sinai. It is the place of death and the…

Featured, William Styles, A Guide To Church Fellowship (Complete)

Article 8 – Justification And Forgiveness

Articles Of The Faith And Order Of A Primitive Or Strict And Particular Baptist Church Of The Lord Jesus Christ, Based On The Declaration Of Faith And Practice Of John…

Featured, George Ella on Doctrinal Matters

An Unworthy Gospel (Fullerism)

The 18th century is often called the Century of Reason. This is because Newtonian scientists and philosophers such as Locke taught that the workings of the known world and the…

Daniel Whitaker, Featured

The Nature And Design Of Gospel Invitations

The occasion of the following Sermon having been preached, and of its being now published to the world, is as follows. An association of Baptist Ministers in London, maintaining the…

Featured, Jared Smith's Bible Doctrine

30 Bible Doctrine – The Emergence Of 17th Century Hyper-Calvinism

I would like to welcome you back to another study in Bible Doctrine. In our previous study, I pointed out the broadest definition for Hyper-Calvinism is any teaching which goes…

Augustus Strong

Augustus Strong (1836-1921) was an American Baptist pastor and theologian (Moderate-Calvinist). In 1865, he was appointed the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, during which time Brown University bestowed upon him an honorary D.D. In 1872, he was appointed the president of Rochester Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology. In 1886, he published in three volumes a Systematic Theology.

Pastoral Oversight (Complete)

Augustus Strong, Pastoral Oversight (Complete)

A. H. Strong On Pastoral Oversight

July 21, 2011 /

Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921), a leading Theologian espousing Particular Baptist convictions and author of "Systematic Theology". With reference to the pastoral office in a church, he wrote: In certain of the New Testament churches there appears to have been a plurality of elders (Acts 20:17; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:5). There is, however, no evidence that the number of elders was uniform or that the plurality which frequently existed was due to any other cause than the size of the churches for which these elders cared. The New Testament example, while it permits the multiplication of assistant pastors according to need, does not require a plural elder-ship in every case nor does it render this elder-ship, where it exists, of coordinate authority with the church. There…

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