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The following pages provide details of, and links to a number of resources that we believe that you will find helpful. You can access them from the links or the drop down menu
Sermons
Here you can listen to and download sermons from our pulpit delivered by Dr Derek Moore-Crispin, our pastor, and other members of the church as well as guest preachers.
Books
Here you will find brief reviews of books that we would recommend as helpful in the Christian journey as well as explaining key doctrines.
Downloads
The following pdf downloads are available from this site.
Members Manual
The Declaration of Faith of Letchworth Baptist Church was adopted in 1941 This Members Manual is based on a series of articles on the Declaration of Faith of Letchworth Baptist Church published in News and Notes (the church’s magazine) from June 1995 to June 1996.
The questions on pages 43-51 were compiled by Neil Blake, while he was assistant pastor at the church. The Manual was first published in March 1997 The Church Rules at the end were revised in 2003 and again in 2009. The latest Charities regulations required the constitution and rules to be significantly revised. The continuity of the Declaration of Faith was maintained.
Calvinistic Doctrines of Grace
The text of this booklet was originally entitled, The Five Points of Calvinism, and was drawn from a series of letters written by the great Scottish preacher and hymn-writer, Dr Horatius Bonar (1808-89).
The ‘Five Points’ - Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints - are also known as ‘The Doctrines of Grace’, and they are commonly remembered by the mnemonic, T-U-L-I-P.
Although the booklet covers the theology of the ‘Five Points’, it does not deal with them all individually. For this reason I have taken the liberty of changing the title to The Calvinistic Doctrines of Grace. I have also undertaken some minor editing, added some chapter headings and sub-headings, and modernised some of the language.
Bonar wrote his letters in direct response to the changing theological climate of his time. The so-called ‘new measures’ of Charles Finney were challenging and displacing the tried and tested Calvinistic doctrines. Finney’s aim was to speed up the process of making converts.
Most of today’s ‘evangelistic methods’ can be traced directly or indirectly to Finney. His professed aim was Revival. But he sought to obtain this through by-passing the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration (being ‘born again’) and conversion.
Finney’s exaltation of man and his rejection of the sovereignty of God have had a devastating
effect on professsedly evangelical Christianity. The controversy he provoked is paralleled by that of Pelagius and Augustine in the early fifth century, of Erasmus and Luther in the sixteenth century, and Wesley and Whitfield in the eighteenth.
The issues dealt with here are of the greatest possible importance. Fundamentally they concern the character and activity of God himself, the sinfulness of fallen man, and the nature of Holy Spirit’s work. To embrace them humbly and thankfully will bring glory to God and freedom to those who are his people.
And if God is pleased to send Holy Spirit-inspired revival once more to Great Britain, we may justifiably assume that first of all he will write the Doctrines of Grace on the hearts of his people.
Derek Moore-Crispin
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