Baptist Apostacy and the Church
Taken out of a booklet by Evangelist
Gordon Silcox
The church that Jesus built is alive and well. It has never
failed and never will fail (Mat.16:18). We have an eternal
promise from our Lord that the perpetuity of this divine church
would continue. It did not start on the day of Pentecost. Jesus
built the first one during his own personal ministry in
Jerusalem. On the day of Pentecost an existing assembly of one
hundred and twenty (120) members were empowered by the Holy
Spirit.
Acts 1:15 - "And in those days Peter stood up in the midst
of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were
about an hundred and twenty)."
Acts 2:1-4 - "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there
came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it
filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared
unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of
them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance."
Yet, today we are seeing Baptist churches and pastors teaching
the universal, invisible day of Pentecost theory of the church.
Our early Baptist forefathers in the first century did not
believe such apostate doctrine. The universal theory came from
Rome and the invisible theory from the Protestants. Genuine
Baptists do not believe either of those false theories. Baptists
are not Protestants and never have been. Even the Protestants
admit to our existence. Listen to what they said:
Alexander Campbell in the Campbell-McCalla Debate - "The
church at Jerusalem was a Baptist church, and the church at
Samaria was a Baptist church."
Mosheim, Lutheran Historian - "The first century was a
history of the Baptists."
John Ridpath, Methodist Historian - "I should not readily
admit that there was a Baptist church as far back as 100A.D.,
though without doubt there were Baptist then, as all Christians
were then Baptists."
We now are seeing many Baptist forsaking their Biblical heritage
and teaching and preaching the
ecumenical doctrine of the universal, invisible church theory. It
is time to resist the apostate trend of our day which will
eventually lead to a one world visible church.