Founders Journal
Contributors:
Dr. Thomas K. Ascol is pastor of the Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida.
Mr. Ernest Reisinger is associate pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida. He also serves as a trustee for the Banner of Truth Trust.
Mr. Robert Selph is pastor of the Middle Valley Baptist Church in Prescott, Arizona.
Cover:
The image on the front cover is the logo for the
Southern Baptist Founders Conference on the Faith of the Founders.
It is representative
of the spirit and heritage that we are seeking to recover in this day.
The sword and trowel call to mind the great work of Nehemiah as he both
defended and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem. Of course, the "prince
of preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also employed this two-fold
image to symbolize his ministry in the last century. Defending the
truth "once delivered to the saints" and building up the Church of
Christ through the work of evangelism is still essential to the gospel
ministry. The anvil is the tool of that "tinker," John Bunyan, whose
Pilgrim's Progress accurately depicts the Christian life in
all its stages. The cobbler's tools are reminiscent of William Carey,
who left his native England to travel to pagan lands with the gospel of
grace, thereby laying claim to the title, "Father of Foreign Missions."
Prominence is given to the carpenter's tools, which remind us of the
Carpenter from Nazareth, whose perfect life and substitutionary death
constructed the full redemption of His people, and whose glorious
gospel it is our privileged duty to preach to the end of the age.
- Editor:
- Thomas K. Ascol, PhD
- Associate Editor:
- Ernest C. Reisinger
- Contributing Editors:
- Bill Ascol, MDiv
- Fred A. Malone, PhD
- Tom J. Nettles, PhD
- Fred A. Malone, PhD
- Webmaster:
- Stan Reeves, PhD