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# Hope for Baptists
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005711hope-for-baptists-html/
- Published: 2005-07-11T15:22:19.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:33.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, Emerging Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[A Baptist historian on the emerging church](http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=3589&ref=dashhouse.com):

> The emerging church offers hope for Baptists, Leonard insisted. “I’d rather be Baptist in the postmodern period than anything else.”

> Baptists should reassert ritual, particularly the “danger and decisiveness” inherent in the ordinances of believer’s baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper, Leonard said.

> With their emphasis on religious liberty and a believer’s church grounded in uncoerced faith, Baptists uniquely are positioned to respond to secularism, pluralism and religious establishmentarianism, he asserted.

> “We should affirm and accept pluralism without running to syncretism,” he said.

(Via [Andrew Jones](http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2005/07/a%5Fbaptist%5Fhisto.html?ref=dashhouse.com).)