Book Comment: The Baptist Faith and Message

In this book Pastor Herschel H. Hobbs takes each of the points of the Baptist Faith and message and amplifies upon them.

Baptists are non-creedal and, so, there is no "official" statement of what we believe.  Hobbs points out that "in no sense is this work a binding statement of faith and message," but that it "is a statement in agreement with the faith and message of Baptists everywhere."  Following E.Y.Mullins, Hobbs sees the one distinctive Baptist belief as "the competency of the soul in religion."  We believe that each Christian may approach God directly without an intercessor.