On the doctrine page you will notice a new letter which is a historic Baptist circulating letter from 1857.  It was customary back then for groups of Baptist churches, called associations,  to circulate doctrinal statements among the various pastors, who would then bring them to their individual churches, at their pastoral discretions.  Baptist's have historically resisted any form of outside ecclesiastical interference from bodies outside the local church.  The local assembly has always been considered autonomous and self governing.  So these circulation letters, far from being some sort of ecclesiastical imposistion on local congregations, were actually a high form of interaction, cooperation and fellowship between churches of like fath and order.  It is kind of of a uniquely Baptist solution to interchurch cooperation and fellowship without inpinging on the local churches authority.   Actually the whole affair is really quite Biblical,  take the example of Pauls circulating Epistles. The went from church to church, with the intent that their content would bless all of the individual congregations in individual ways.  Now I know I'm talking about inspired letters in the case of Paul.  But there is some validity in the methodology none the less.  At any rate, I think Christian history has a lot to teach us, and I think the conciseness and clarity of this Historic Baptist Statement of Doctrine and Practice makes it an excellent choice as material that still needs to be circulated among the present day Baptist Churches.  Truth never changes. CLICK HERE TO READ