by Sandy » Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:28 pm
I don't think the BFM 2000's description of church polity is descriptive or specific enough to be used to deny an elder led church membership in the convention body.
Here in Western PA, most Baptist churches are independent of denominational affiliation, but most of them aren't like the IFB folks down south. There are a few GARBC churches as well, and all of them are elder led. So that's existed in the greater Baptist family for a long time.