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Denominations

Denominations. Baptist. Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s John Smyth accepted Mennonite teaching Smyth’s followers returned to England and formed various Baptist churches Calvinism became the predominate doctrine. Denominations. Baptist. Baptist churches are not in the NT

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Denominations

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  1. Denominations Baptist • Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s • John Smyth accepted Mennonite teaching • Smyth’s followers returned to England and formed various Baptist churches • Calvinism became the predominate doctrine

  2. Denominations Baptist • Baptist churches are not in the NT • John the baptist did not start a church • Before Christ’s death, Eph. 5:25 • John said follow Christ, Jn. 1:35-37 • Baptist doctrines do not agree with the NT

  3. Denominations Baptist History & Organization Doctrines & Practices

  4. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • American Baptist Association • Root: Baptist General Association • Name adopted in 1924 • Conventions are not scriptural • Inherited sin • Church began w/Jesus’ ministry • Baptism administered by church authority, cf. Acts 8:26-39

  5. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • Free Will Baptist • Traced to Arminian-minded Baptist • Southern Line – Palmer movement, 1727 • Northern Line – Randall movement, 1780 • Merged in 1935: • National Association of Free Will Baptist

  6. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • Primitive Baptist • Kenhukee Association of NC • condemned all “money-based” societies (missionary societies) in 1827 • Others followed • Associations published meeting minutes on which fellowship was based

  7. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • Primitive Baptist • Never formally organized into denomination • Exclusive & Calvinistic • Object to instrumental music

  8. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • Southern Baptist Convention • Founded over N/S tensions in 1840s • HQ in Boston mostly abolitionists • Board refused to support • slave-holding missionaries • Formed SBC in 1845

  9. Denominations Baptist History & Organization • Southern Baptist Convention • Over 16 million members • 40,000 plus churches • Recent in-fighting between • moderates and conservatives • June 1995: apology for • founders’ defense of slavery

  10. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Inherited Sin • “Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin” (SBC).

  11. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Inherited Sin • Son does not inherit father’s sin, Eze. 18 • Why did Eve sin, Gen. 3:1-6; Jas. 1:13-15

  12. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Salvation by faith alone • “Faith…In the exercise of saving faith, the soul is renewed by the Holy Spirit, freed from the dominion of sin, and becomes the child of God” (Free Will Baptist).

  13. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Salvation by faith alone • Not by faith only, Jas. 2:14-26 • Faith w/o confession = no salvation, Jn. 12:42, 43; cf. Lk. 12:8, 9; Gal. 1:10

  14. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Once saved always saved • “All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end” (SBC).

  15. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Once saved always saved • Why warn about the impossible, 1 Cor. 10:12 • Jesus taught the possibility of apostasy, • Lk. 8:4-8, 11-15; 15:11-32

  16. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices • Baptism is not essential to salvation • “Being a church ordinance, [baptism] is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper” (SBC).

  17. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Baptism is not essential to salvation Baptist Faith saves Enter Baptist Church Added to Body of Christ Baptism

  18. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Church of Christ & Baptist Church Are NOT the Same Baptism is not essential to salvation Baptist Faith saves Enter Baptist Church Added to Body of Christ Baptism

  19. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Baptism is not essential to salvation Baptist Repentance Faith & Baptism Repentance Faith Enter Baptist Church Get To Heaven

  20. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Harder to get in Baptist Church Than into Heaven Baptism is not essential to salvation Baptist Repentance Faith & Baptism Repentance Faith Enter Baptist Church Get To Heaven

  21. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Never lose salvation Baptist Once Saved Always Saved Gross Sin Kicked Out Of Baptist Church Cannot be Kicked out Of Heaven

  22. Denominations Baptist Doctrines & Practices Can be too Immoral To Be A Baptist But not to get To Heaven Baptism is not essential to salvation Baptist Once Saved Always Saved Gross Sin Kicked Out Of Baptist Church Cannot be Kicked out Of Heaven

  23. Denominations Baptist History & Organization Doctrines & Practices

  24. Denominations Baptist • Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s • John Smyth accepted Mennonite teaching • Smyth’s followers returned to England and formed various Baptist churches • Calvinism became the predominate doctrine

  25. Denominations Baptist • Baptist churches are not in the NT • John the baptist did not start a church • Before Christ’s death, Eph. 5:25 • John said follow Christ, Jn. 1:35-37 • Baptist doctrines do not agree with the NT

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