The Southern Baptist Church

1. Briefly summarize the content of the lecture and the highlights of the Q&A session (if any) Pastor Russ Robinson and a member of his congregation, Dr. Eula Monroe gave a lecture about the foundation, practices and defining characteristics of the Southern Baptist church. Pastor Robinson used many scripture references from the New Testament to support his statements while Dr. Monroe shared personal experiences and testimony of her faith. They largely emphasized eight specific features of the Baptist church. First that all authority comes from the Holy Bible alone. It was also acknowledged that while there may be various versions or translations of the Bible, the differences were insignificant in context of the Bible’s authority. Second, the autonomy of the church, thus they do not rely on apostles, bishops or prophet’s for priesthood authority but are instead self-governing. Fourth, they share a very Protestant-esque view of the collective people as priesthood bearers in the sense that they view all true believers as priesthood holders. …show more content…
Sixth, beliefs are individual and each has a duty to uphold God’s word. Seventh, there are only two offices in the Baptist church, that of the past and the deacon. While different terms may be used, they all basically refer to the same office. Finally, they talked about the need to support the separation of church and state, upholding righteousness but not the invasion of either entity upon the other. Dr. Monroe expounded on these aspects and added her own personal conversion story and how she came to BYU, an occurrence that she said was only possible because of the Lord’s