Heritage: Mohler on Authority

                                                                                          Vol. XVII, No. 8, Sep/Oct 2004

The Bible, and the Bible alone, holds ultimate authority in a Baptist congregation. The Second London Confession of Faith (1677) put the issue plainly: “The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own Glory, man’s salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new Revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men.”

Baptist congregationalism is an exercise in bringing ourselves under submission to the Word of God – not in being our own authority in the place of Scripture.

[From Why I Am a Baptist, Broadman & Holman, 2001, p. 63]