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Yes to this, "as evangelicals, we must cease to be mere biblicists and become faithful exponents of Scripture deeply rooted in a well-rounded dogmatic theology." https://twitter.com/robertstrivens/status/1339605402539892736
I'm sure that a naive biblicism that is uniformed by the theological heritage of the church is one of the reasons why Evangelicals have got themselves into such a mess with the doctrine of God.
Some advocates of the eternal submission of the Son make will a property of the persons of the Trinity, rather than the divine being.
If will is a property of persons, rather than being, and the incarnate Son has two wills, is he therefore two persons, divine and human?
According to classic Christology, the incarnate Son is one person with two natures, with a will appropriate to each nature, divine and human.
One of the reasons to subscribe to an elaborate confession of faith such as the Second London Baptist Confeasion is that our forebears were self-consciously Reformed Catholics.
Their confessions bear the imprint of the great creedal heritage of the church. Subscribe to them and you subscribe to Nicaea and Chalcedon and identify with an Augustinain account of salvation by sovereign grace.
But they didn't stop there. They were Reformed Catholics, who sought to reform church doctrine and life in the light of our supreme authority, which is the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scriptures.
Hence the Particular Baptists set out their own distinctive views on the covenants, the church and baptism, while holding to the Catholic creeds and the solas of the Reformation.
Contemporary Evangelical doctrinal statements adopt a minimalist approach that fails to root the church in the Great Tradition of theological orthodoxy.
Neither do they set out why Independent Evangelical or Baptist churches operate as they do in the light of Scripture.
Elders (pastors among them) and deacons should be expected to subscribe to a confession like the 1689. A more basic doctrinal statement may be required of church members, but the officers should ensure that church teaching and life is in line with the confession.
