Desiring God and open membership

Bethlehem Baptist Church’s long-standing practice has been to admit paedobaptists to membership. Here is John Piper’s response to Wayne Grudem’s change of mind:

I think in order to bar someone of the opposite position on baptism from membership with consistency, a church needs to adopt closed Communion. A Baptist church welcoming someone baptized as an infant to the Table as a guest but barring him from the Table if he decides to join the church is untenable.

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