In a Baptist ecclesiology, corporate solidarity is not abrogated in the New Covenant, only its genealogical principle.

Familial solidarity remains as an abiding creational principle.

And covenantal solidarity remains because the church is a body--not just an aggregation of discrete believers but a congregation of those united to Christ as the Head.

This is why Baptists have always had what might otherwise be perceived as an odd interest in church discipline: because the corporate witness of the church is at stake.

This is also why is it perfectly appropriate for a church to express contrition over the sins of our fathers, because in one important sense they *are* our sins.

Of course, in another sense, they are *not* our sins: "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son."

But we can't pit one biblical principle over against another. Daniel confesses his fathers' sins. And Ezekiel says a son shall not die for his father's sins. Both are true in different senses.