Baptists are of no note then? Well that is the fate of faithful servants of Christ. It’s rare to see glamorous Baptist cathedrals. Their worship centers often look like school buildings.
The reason they fare as well as they do is that they have managed to glorify Christ more in their beliefs and practice than most other Christian congregations. The famous Baptist “once saved always saved” which robustly proclaims an amazing power of Christ is a very sweet savor to God. At least, God must say, someone is not selling Me short down there and playing pussyfoot with My power.
It’s only happenstance (as we see it) that Baptists became this way. They’re from a pietistic offshoot of the post-Catholic Anglican church. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the lineage of that community. The name they go under is not pretentious; it is about a practice that they consider ceremonial. But they have also managed to affirm the Hebrew thread of Christendom, which is another big plus of blessing for them.
For them to be of no note... well that’s a lot like Jesus in His day too.
Baptist i think would say they are are branch of Lutherans. via von Zinzendorf
“Baptists are of no note then?”
Baptists by and large support both birth control (including the use of abortifacients like The Pill) and abortion in some cases (”life of mother”, incest, rape). Jerry Falwell, for instance, said those things on more than one occasion. Here, for instance, the SBC says it is okay to murder babies to save the life of the mother: http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=21
Thus, the SBC - the largest Baptist body in America supports murdering babies.
At least that was a little better than what these baby murdering supporting Baptists of the SBC said in 1971:
“That we call upon Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.”
http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=13
Thus, Baptists in the SBC have a long history of supporting baby murdering.
Amen! Jesus knows His sheep and they know Him.
Can you point to evidence of Jesus appointing women pastors/ preachers and permitting same sex unions. http://praisehouston.com/1430711/woman-sues-church-over-gay-marriage/
I know you are trying to uphold the Baptists here, but this statement is wrong. The very first assembly formed at the day of Pentecost was baptist, and their doctrine has never changed.
Other imitations of The True Faith were excluded from fellowship by virtue of their doctrinal changes from that of The Disciples. Baptized regenerated believer-disciples have continually come away from the apostates, they have stayed separate, and refused to even touch the unclean thing of impure doctrine. This line has been clean and straight since the beginning.
Today's fundamental independent Bible-believing immersionists (of whicg some are now given the proper noun title "Baptists") have never changed their doctrinal base from what it was at the foot of the Risen Christ, 120 of them.
Other splinters have, with flawed and fatal changes in the understanding of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the elements of The Saving Gospel, and that is why they are called something else rather than baptizers. Mo matter how numerous, "catholic" is one of those splinters refusing the WHOLE counsel of the Bible.
Baptists were/are/will always be the first church of The Christ. To join this movement "The Way" the individual had to believe on Christ, repent from/abandon one's sins, be baptized as a public profession, and meet regularly with fellow believers for instruction in the doctrine of the Disciples, to pray, to break bread in Remembrance, and see to each others' needs.
. An introduction and fifteen chapters of the history of baptists is here:
http://www.reformedreader.org/history/ford/
I suggest you read Chapter 15 first.