The Standard Manual for Baptist Churches

This pocket-sized manual offers concise, practical guidance on Baptist church life, organization, and polity. It defines a local congregation, outlines officers and ordinances, explains membership, discipline, appeals, and business procedures, and provides model resolutions and administrative forms. Doctrinal chapters treat baptism, the Lord's Supper, and objections to infant baptism, while later sections summarize church government and denominational history. Intended for pastors and members, the manual takes a clearly partisan Baptist perspective and emphasizes adherence to New Testament authority, orderly administration, and instruction of new members to promote unity and effective congregational service.