[OLD REGGIE]

Like Independent Baptist congregations, I guess it depends entirely on what your local unit is up to.

Not really. I believe Independent Baptists are Christians. Some UU congregations are decidedly not Christian.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, I don't think Jimmy Carter's Independent Baptists are really Christians . . .

But, seriously, I wasn't saying they were identical . . . I was saying that local autonomy means that one church may hold quite a different set of beliefs from another in the same denomination.

Of course, Baptists tend to differ on matters like the use of musical instruments in church or the scope of dispensationalism . . . NOT the existence of God!