Baptism & Reformed Church Membership: A Robust Discussion With Chad Vegas

In this episode Chad Vegas is back to discuss confessional membership and infant baptism.
Title
Baptism & Reformed Church Membership: A Robust Discussion With Chad Vegas
Summary
In this episode Chad Vegas is back to discuss confessional membership and infant baptism.
Published
Feb 12, 2025
Hosted By
Pastor Chris Gordon
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Show Notes

On a previous show, Pastor Chad Vegas of Sovereign Grace Church in Bakersfield, CA visited the AGR studio to talk about his path to reforming his church, and his intent to join the URCNA. In this episode he returns to address why he had to pull back on entering into the URC, and discusses the complexity of his congregation that is both credo and paedobaptist. They discuss the hard lines and gray areas of church membership and Pastor Gordon explains the URCNA standards on communion and baptism that are designed to honor God, and uphold the importance of a united church body.

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - What About Our Baptist Members?
04:20 - Subscribing, Ascending & Practicing
06:00 - Baptism & URC Membership
08:50 - Subscription Issues
10:50 - 3 Standards Of Communion
12:27 - Grey Areas
11:10 - Sunday Is Coming
12:33 - Learning To Sing
13:40 - Progressivism & Liberalism
16:00 - Seeker-Sensitive Evangelism
17:10 - A Message To Presbyterians
19:00 - 3 Marks- A Hypothetical
22:44 - Grandfathered In?
24:00 - A Whole Lot Of Baptisms
26:00 - New Member Protocol
30:00 - Hashing Out Different Scenarios
32:00 - Difference Between Subscribe & Ascent
33:40 - Exodus 4
36:00 - Creed Or Chaos
37:55 - Baptist Parents & Children
41:18 - We’re Not Doubting Their Faith
42:00 - Personal Experiences
45:00 - Apply The Wisdom Of The Elders

Chad Vegas is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church. After completing his M.A. in Theology at Talbot, and being the high school pastor at RiverLakes Community Church, Chad was called to plant a church in Bakersfield. He is also the founding board chairman of Radius International, an organization that trains people to plant churches among unreached language groups. His passion is to know Christ and to make him known. He has been married to Teresa since 1994, and they have two children and one grandson.

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Our guests on this episode included:
Pastor Chad Vegas
Pastor Chad Vegas

Chad Vegas is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church. After completing his M.A. in Theology at Talbot, and being the high school pastor at RiverLakes Community Church, Chad was called to plant a church in Bakersfield. He is also the founding board chairman of Radius International, an organization that trains people to plant churches among unreached language groups. His passion is to know Christ and to make him known. He has been married to Teresa since 1994, and they have two children and one grandson.

Church: bakersfieldchurch.org

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