[John Leland 1789]

I understand, and I understand the “priesthood of the believer” and local church autonomy, and the other historic Baptist distinctives (I am teaching a series on the distinctives even currently), but I will say this for anyone who might be reading this. The distinctives mean absolutely nothing without a Scriptural base, and if there is no inerrant Bible, then we’re all just full of men’s traditions and opinions, anyway, and we are doomed and are of all men most miserable. But I take it that you agree with that.

Concerning property: I am close friends with several men who have had to battle the SBC over property when the churches decided to remove themselves from SBC rolls. Seems that many years prior, there was financial assistance in the building of facilities, but that all debts had been paid by the local churches. Evidently, titles had not been cleared up, and the SBC tried to keep the properties when the churches wanted to leave the fold. Those several cases have all been resolved in favor of the local churches involved, but SBC big boys did try to use intimidation and threat of loss of property when the churches wanted to have their names removed.

[GadareneDemoniac]

That’s really sad. You can’t serve God and mammon, can you? Whoever said that sure knew what He was talking about.

You know, something hit me like a ton of bricks the other day. The Priests and the Levites in Jesus’ time supposedly spent their time studying the Scripture, but when Jesus came they had no clue who was standing in their midst. They committed the ultimate blasphemy by accusing Him of blasphemy! So much for men's opinions!