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Why is it a custom in Baptist Churches to vote on new congregation members?
I'll start out with the last part of your question. There is no explicit Biblical basis for this. Voting on membership into the Church is an outcome of several Baptist distinctives, the primary ...
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Who is a Christian according to the Catholic Church?
Those who are validly baptized are Christians. From Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church from the Second Vatican Council:
The Church recognizes that in many ways she is linked ...
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I am a free will baptist ordained minister, and I want to join a baptist church, do I need to be ordained again?
No, joining a Baptist church does not require ordination of any sort. It would make for a strange church where only ordained people were permitted membership.
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Does the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) have a policy regarding admitting members who do not accept its doctrines?
The Presbyterian Churches of America have in their church order a section on membership. This does not require the members to adopt all the doctrines of the church, but it does require a credible ...
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Do conservative Presbyterians accept 4-point Calvinists?
Conservative Presbyterian churches typically require their elders to subscribe to the Westminster Standards, which include the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and ...
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Why is it a custom in Baptist Churches to vote on new congregation members?
This practice is done in Baptist churches mostly as a practical matter, rather than a spiritual one. I'm speaking mostly from an Independent Fundamental Baptist perspective, but I believe that the ...
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Who is a Christian according to the Catholic Church?
According to Pope Benedict XV's encyclical Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, a Christian is a Catholic, who holds the faith in its entirety:
… Such is the nature of Catholicism that it does not admit of ...
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