The London Baptist Confession of Faith: A Conversation with Rob Ventura (Part 1)

What can Baptist churches gain by embracing the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith?

Rob Ventura, pastor of Grace Community Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, answers this question with 'Three Cs': Confirmation, Continuity, and Confession.

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They are so helpful it took over a 1000 years to figure out we needed them.

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NOTHING. WHAT ALL CHURCHES HAVE TO EMBRACE IS THE WORD OF GOD.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV)

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. (Ephesians 6:12-13 ESV)
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Ephesians 6:16-17 ESV)

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THE SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH – 1689
Chapter 26, Article 4:
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church, in whom, by the appointment of the Father, (g) all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner; neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof, but is (h) that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. ( g Col 1:18; Mat 28:18-20; Eph 4:11-12; h 2Th 2:2-9)
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