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Associate Director,The Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University; Baptist History Professor, Yellowstone Baptist College; Associate Editor, Baptists Today; Web Designer, Baptist History and Heritage Society; published author; ABD PhD, American History, Auburn University

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Recent Answers from Bruce Gourley

2009-11-17 divorce and remarriage:

Hello Kim, There is no official Baptist position on divorce. Yes, should you get a divorce, you could remarry one day and be a member of a Baptist church. Statistics show, actually, that Southern Baptists

2009-10-12 Frequency of the Lord's Supper:

Hello Cody, For starters, the Acts 2:42 passage you cite is not actually observance of the "Lord's Supper." Rather, it is a case in which the early believers basically lived as communal Christians,

2009-09-24 Southern Baptist Covenant:

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2009-08-25 Women's Role In Church:

To begin with, each local Baptist congregation decides (usually through democratic processes, although sometimes through a pastoral edict) what roles women can and cannot fulfill within that congregation

2009-08-06 the lord supper:

There is no one official manner in which Baptists observe the Lord's Supper; the manner is left up to each individual local church or body observing the Lord's Supper. So it is not a matter of right or

 

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