Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Below are some previous posts which fit into the theme of this series: What a Lay Preacher Sees (Jim Macfarlane) This will give you an idea what to expect as you preapare to lead a worship service from the minute you get the invitation. Every Communion Special and Unique George Petrie asks the question Is it [...]

Peter Heaton & Philip Magee (Active members, both of Dingwall Baptist Church.) It is come up for that time of year where you may have got that phone call from a church asking you to preach the Sunday morning, the 9th November (the nearest Sunday to the remembrance) and for a split second you may [...]

Jim McFarlane. A well-travelled member of the Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers’Asssociation gives a few observations on worship in Scottish Baptist Churches As a lay preacher and having a privilege of speaking in a few of our churches, you encounter different worship styles, from traditional to a more ‘freer’ type, from an order structure type form [...]

George Petrie, Active Member, Broxburn How important is Communion? All sorts of superlatives are likely to be used to describe the importance of Communion in a Baptist setting. But, I would suggest that to a casual observer communion could appear on many a Sunday morning in a Baptist to be just another ‘item on the [...]