A Young Baptist’s Reason to Remain

By Ken Williams
The Baptist Standard
Five years ago, while studying at Texas A&M University, I took a job as the youth minister of a small Baptist church in the Conroe area north of Houston. Having been born and raised in a large Bible church, I entered the Baptist world relatively oblivious to the situation I was [...]

Let’s Talk About Being Baptist…

I spent a large part of this past fall traveling around Texas to different cities, listening to what young adults had to say about being Baptist. I was encouraged in many ways with what they had to say about being Baptist, about engaging the world for Christ.
I am sold on being Baptist. For [...]

Messy Ecclesiology

The following is a blog post from Craig Nash’s blog. on September 17, 2007.  Any of you who grew up Baptist– well, I think you may understand elementally what Craig is writing about.  Part of the purpose of this blog is to disseminate to a wider audience the voice of young Baptists- this is one [...]

Baptists in the Community- Voluntary cooperation of churches

I hear a lot that my generation is “post-denomination” and they feel that denominations are rather useless.  I have to disagree on several levels.  On the most basic front, however, Baptists have a distinctive that our denominations are built from the bottom up- individual churches voluntarily cooperate together in an effort to do more with [...]

Feedback on the Priesthood of all Believers

In thinking about Baptist distinctives, one of the most important, yet simultaneously troubling, is the priesthood of all believers.
As Baptists, we all believe that we each have direct access to God without the need for a mediator (aside from Christ). I firmly believe the priesthood of all believers to be the single most important [...]

Observations on young Baptists

As Alexis alerted us of, there has been a good discussion happening on the BGCT blog conerning Ken William’s article which appeared in the Baptist Standard last week. Alexis has asked me to post a version of my comments in that discussion here on the TBYPN blog.
These are my thoughts and observations. [...]

Soul Freedom: A Core Baptist Distinctive

Another TBYPN member, Aaron Weaver, had an article published in the November-December issue of the Report from the Capital, a publication of the Baptist Joint Committee. In his article he talks about being Baptist, his decision to attend the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, and the foundations of soul freedom which allow [...]

The Authority of the Bible

Hey there, blog friends. I’ve been asked to blog some regarding my thoughts on some of the Baptist Distinctives. These are my opinions and are no way representative of the group as a whole. They are, however, a place for discussion to begin. So I’ll hopefully write a series of posts [...]

Baptist Distinctives

The Texas Baptist Young Professional Network began in late July 2007. The Network has grown so rapidly (over 250 members) that we now have multiple opportunities to connect with each other, and there are many possibilities for what we can do with this group. But I hope we can stay true, also, to [...]