All of the women's colleges established by Southern Baptists were funded poorly and had difficulty surviving. |
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Adventists come in as many shades as Baptists, Pentecostals and Methodists do. |
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There were no nightclubs, thanks to the baptists, and there was scant affluence to create boating and nights at fancy restaurants. |
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But as you write in the novel, baptists excommunicated Deborah for dressing as a man. |
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There's nothing like 600 Baptists standing up singing at the top of their lungs. |
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Some of these groups, including the Baptists, Quakers, and Mennonites, developed their own forms of worship. |
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Despite the attempts to prevent unlawful conventicles, the Baptists, Quakers, and other radicals were not to be uprooted. |
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If Baptists wavered in their support of conscientious objectors, they were unequivocal about the separation of church and state. |
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Most Baptists have suspected its adhesion to a government or to leftist politics, a supposition that led to its open rejection. |
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Most Burmese Baptists are members of the major tribal groups, including the Karens and the Chins. |
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Lutherans, Calvinists, Methodists, Baptists and even agnostics have found him deserving. |
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Revivalism flourished as Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians vied for converts. |
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Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists and evangelicals complete the broad tapestry. |
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As it happens, I am a Southern Baptist, and we Baptists can extol the Scriptures with the best of them. |
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I only long that we as individuals and as Calvinistic Baptists be Godlike in our response to this calamity. |
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After all, more than half of American evangelicals are either Baptists or non-denominational. |
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So we're thinking of becoming, if not Baptists, possibly Baptist church band groupies. |
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Yet, the Baptist convention there brings Baptists together for evangelism and witness. |
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This approach allowed for the rapid expansion of Baptists throughout the region. |
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I've even heard that some Baptists have started a Benedictine-style monastery. |
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He sought to make Memphis a denominational center for Baptists and called for unity among the brethren. |
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The ethnic German North American Baptists worked even more directly among their German brethren. |
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Many of them are committed Reformed Baptists, but even more are men at various stages in the process of reformation. |
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In another significant adaptation, Baptists modified and softened the language concerning reprobation utilized in the Westminster Confession. |
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On the other hand, when not involved in such discussions, they have, like the Baptists of the nineteenth century, made little of the rite. |
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In the broad Canadian scene, a diverse group of Baptists with different theological or ethnic roots has emerged. |
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There are a small number of Uniates, Seventh-Day Adventists, Baptists, Pentecostalists, Armenian Apostolics, and Molokans. |
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Missions had served as a rallying cry for Arminian and Calvinistic Baptists in Scotland as it had for Baptists in England in previous years. |
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Arminians does not describe us accurately, and many Baptists think Arminians are people from Armenia. |
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The Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Mormons all have impressive emergency relief works after major events. |
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Competing organizations vied for the loyalties of Baptists on the Arkansas frontier. |
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Baptists believe Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the incarnate manifestation of the Eternal God. |
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His critique of baptismal theology, however, was not solely directed at British Baptists. |
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As Baptists, our beginnings are traced to dissenting sects of English and European Protestants. |
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Baptists have proven the least able of the traditional denominations to learn from Maori ways and thought forms. |
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Baptists shared these characteristics with Free Churches, Mennonites, Assemblies of God, Brethen, Salvation Army, and others. |
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Other Protestant groups include Methodists, Moravians, Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists. |
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Canadian Baptists, however, know we are not American, even though we have been shaped by the pervasive influence of American culture. |
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But he discovered other groups who were far from being like the Baptists of the seventeenth century, such as the millenarian Munster radicals. |
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But these sectarian Baptists find their interests intertwined with the mineworkers, many of whom are their fellow members or clergy. |
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Separate Baptists essentially remained Calvinist in their soteriology but were patently aggressive in their evangelism and missiology. |
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The strongest developments regarding deaconess sisterhoods among Baptists in America occurred among the German Baptists. |
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In the West, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists employed revival meetings to evangelize unchurched frontier families. |
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Northern Baptists had organized training schools for Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Russians, and Italians. |
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About 100,000 Baptists and other refugees occupy a small plot of land on the border of Burma and Thailand, near the Thai city of Maesot. |
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Turkish Baptists, to a certain extent, have been a bridge between Baptists in the Middle East and Europe. |
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He is an evangelical and perceived as closely associated to American Southern Baptists. |
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The Southern Baptists have a convention every year, where they gather from around the country. |
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As a confessional people, Southern Baptists do not stand in neutral territory. |
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Most Americans are not Baptists, much less Southern Baptists, though it is a significant denomination. |
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He demonstrated with the increased financial giving records of Southern Baptists to home missions. |
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The withdrawal of Old School Baptists allowed missionary Baptist associations to pursue cooperative ventures. |
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Not all Baptists embraced the modified Calvinism of Backus or accepted the conversion efforts of the Philadelphia Association. |
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Many Baptists believe that within the biblical canon, the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are preeminent. |
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The charismatic movement has influenced Baptists more broadly than just worship forms in the latter part of the century. |
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Yet, the charismatic movement continued to make ground among New Zealand Baptists. |
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The results would have profound implications for succeeding generations of Canadian Baptists. |
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Priests and nuns were known to kidnap Baptists and force them to become papists. |
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Arminian Baptists, Brethren and Pentecostal churches have preached the gospel of Christ within their own limited understanding. |
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These Presbyterians and Baptists shared a number of social and economic goals with the vast majority of migrants to the southern piedmont. |
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Baptists rallied around the confession and for the moment schism was avoided, but peace for Southern Baptists was ephemeral. |
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Among the Southern Baptists they turned to the practice of writing the denominational confession of faith. |
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They typically offered a more prominent role to women in their congregations than did the Regular Baptists. |
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Early Puritan Baptists relied on some techniques for cultivating the spiritual life very similar to those used by medieval contemplatives. |
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This intense desire to convert people to the Baptist faith encouraged other Baptists. |
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Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic. |
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We traditional Baptists believe in God's sovereignty, but we do not think that divine sovereignty entails that God foreordains everything. |
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Early Baptists, of course, found themselves restrained by Calvinist predestinarian tenets. |
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Further, noted Baptists have interpreted in radically different ways the potential contributions of women in diaconal roles. |
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By the 1960s, a group of Fellowship Baptists founded London Baptist College so that a more thoroughly dispensational position was articulated. |
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Baptists dissented from a state religion that claimed the right to determine what should be believed and how belief should be practiced. |
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Baptists and other dissenters could not take the simple way out by just not drinking tea. |
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Most Southern Baptists were exercised about the possibility but not excited. |
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Between 1765 and 1774, these early Virginia Baptists made active church members out of numerous unchurched people, something that the Anglican establishment had failed to do. |
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Hobby Lobby, which sells arts and crafts materials, is owned by devout Southern Baptists. |
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This was also true for the Protestant denominations, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers. |
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Theological divisions among Baptists at the beginning of the century were usually about the degree to which one held Calvinistic as against Arminian views. |
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Republican State Chairman Tina Benkiser will orate, flanked by representatives of organizations such as the Southern Baptists and the Texas Conference of Churches. |
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In other words, Baptists and Southern Presbyterians are evangelicals. |
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For example, he would have been aware of the condemnation by the Northern General Baptist Convention in 1920 of liberal tendencies among Baptists. |
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Such worship links Pentacostals closely to southern evangelical Baptists. |
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In the 1930s, the charismatic movement split Baptists in Sweden. |
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Most baptists do not believe that baptism is a requirement for salvation, but rather a public expression of one's inner repentance and faith. |
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In other words, committed Southern Baptists have created the communal agencies necessary to live out their faith beyond the walls created by fear. |
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During this time, the non-conformist Protestant religions, such as Congregationalists, Methodists and Baptists, were at the forefront of religious evangelism. |
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From the beginning to end, the Baptist Faith and Message statement of Southern Baptists embraces the Baptist refusal to adopt any creedal formulation of faith. |
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Baptists were most prominent, followed by Presbyterians and Methodists. |
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Baptists from the first have issued their confessions of faith. |
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A special approach to ecclesiology was not only important for Primitive Baptists, it was the essential way in which they remained the true church. |
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Unlike the traditionally socially conservative version of Southern Baptists, self-described evangelicals sometimes drink, dance, smoke or even vote the liberal line. |
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The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses. |
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A visionary in missiology, he led the congregation to reclaim its identity as a church in mission through an evolving partnership with Cuban Baptists. |
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Baptists established missions to Aborigines and the urban poor. |
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No one church in this country can be called the mother church of Baptists. |
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Further, with this requirement Japanese Baptists had to loosen the requirement of believer's baptism by immersion and tolerate various other baptismal traditions. |
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These include Baptists, Moravians and various kinds of Brethren. |
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Seventh Day Baptists in America paralleled their English brethren. |
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But it was not until 1640 that the London Baptists actually abandoned sprinkling and adopted immersion as their preferred symbol of dying and rising with Christ. |
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Leading up to the American Civil War, Baptists became embroiled in the controversy over slavery in the United States. |
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In the early seventeenth century, Baptists like John Smyth and Thomas Helwys published tracts in defense of religious freedom. |
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Baptists rejected the name Anabaptist when they were called that by opponents in derision. |
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The Baptists were the most influential of the nonconformist denominations in Aberdare and their development was led by the Rev. |
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In 1837 the Baptists had three chapels, but in 1897 there were twenty, seventeen of them being Welsh. |
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Most Baptists consider the Communion to be primarily an act of remembrance of Christ's atonement, and a time of renewal of personal commitment. |
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According to historian George Marsden, most fundamentalists are Baptists and dispensationalist. |
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Most justices have been Protestants, including 36 Episcopalians, 19 Presbyterians, 10 Unitarians, 5 Methodists, and 3 Baptists. |
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In this way, Baptists hope that a bridge can be found between their baptismal traditions and those of pedobaptist churches. |
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While other pedobaptist denominations abounded in America, it was the proximity of the Methodists that caused Baptists to despise them so. |
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Taking a slam against traditionalists and sacramentarians who could get along without inerrant words, he would not allow Baptists to do likewise. |
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But Baptists would readminister the rite to every one who had received it on false pretences, or to whom it had been involuntarily administered. |
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At that time, the Free Churches included the Methodists, Baptists, United Reformed and Pentecostalists. |
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The district has a tradition of nonconformity which is reflected in the number of chapels erected by Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodists. |
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Hugh Wease has done North Carolina Baptists a great service by writing the history of The Memorial Baptist Church of Greenville. |
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Other Protestant denominations include Baptists, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Remonstrants. |
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Churches dominated by southerners rejected non-Baptist immersions, reflecting the tension in the mid-South between Baptists and Campbellites. |
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Madison knew directly how colonial-era Anglicans had persecuted Baptists. |
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Pray to God to save you from the various Jehovists, Adventists, Baptists, Evangelicals, Methodists, and other similar sects. |
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First, in the eye of the average northwesterner, who, what, and where are he Baptists? |
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Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists maintain a doctrine of the two seeds. |
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Charismatics distrusted Falwell, fundamentalists disliked Robertson, and mainstream evangelicals and Southern Baptists were skeptical of both. |
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Though it was a commonly held opinion, now only hardshell Baptists oppose dancing. |
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A variety of dissenting congregations such as the Quakers and Baptists were to be found in certain districts. |
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Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity. |
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Prior to the 20th century, Baptist historians generally wrote from the perspective that Baptists had existed since the time of Christ. |
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A number of other Baptist churches sprang up, and they became known as the General Baptists. |
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The Particular Baptists were established when a group of Calvinist Separatists adopted believers' Baptism. |
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Two major groups of Baptists formed the basis of the churches in the Maritimes. |
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Historically, Baptists have played a key role in encouraging religious freedom and separation of church and state. |
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Most Baptists hold that no church or ecclesiastical organization has inherent authority over a Baptist church. |
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A substantial secession of Baptists went into the movement led by Alexander Campbell, to return to a more fundamental church. |
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Baptists subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers. |
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The rise of theological modernism in the latter 19th and 20th century also greatly affected Baptists. |
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Because of their minority status in many Western societies, Baptists have often been advocates of countercultural activities. |
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As such, the Congregationalists were a reciprocal influence on the Baptists. |
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On the other hand, the Baptists required each member to experience conversion, followed by baptism. |
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In Scotland, the Presbyterians played a similar role to the Nonconformist Methodists, Baptists and other groups in England and Wales. |
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They included 60 Primitive Methodists, 48 Baptists, 40 Congregationalists, and 15 Wesleyan Methodists. |
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This position is also taken in some Baptist churches, especially Reformed Baptists, and by the Churches of Christ. |
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Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, elders and deacons. |
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Some Baptists also have begun taking on the title of Bishop. |
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Other denominations included Baptists, Congregationalists, and Methodists. |
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After 1710 he became the pastor of a local group of Baptists. |
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Baptists are present in almost all continents in big denominations. |
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Most Baptists are evangelical in doctrine, but Baptist beliefs can vary due to the congregational governance system that gives autonomy to individual local Baptist churches. |
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As second-generation Protestants, early Baptists were impacted by earlier approaches to a believers' church reflected in Anabaptism and Puritanism. |
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Methodists, Baptists and the United Reformed Church are also represented, alongside newer church groups including Elim Pentecostal and Newfrontiers. |
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Baptists generally believe in the literal Second Coming of Christ. |
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Early in the 19th century, the rise of the modern missions movement, and the backlash against it, led to widespread and bitter controversy among the American Baptists. |
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By the 1760s, dissenting Protestants, especially Baptists and Methodists, were growing rapidly and started challenging the Anglicans for moral leadership. |
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In his example, Baptists wanted laws closing liquor stores on Sundays to promote piety, and bootleggers wanted such laws to create an unserved market. |
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The Baptists particularly allowed them active roles in congregations. |
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As early as the late 18th century, black Baptists began to organize separate churches, associations and mission agencies, especially in the northern states. |
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More than 20,000 Southern Baptists registered for the meeting in Atlanta. |
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However, with the rise of confessionalism, some Baptists have denied the Zwinglian doctrine of mere memorialism and have taken up a Reformed view of Communion. |
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Various Congregational, Reformed, Reformed Baptists and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. |
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The Landmark movement, already mentioned, has been described as a reaction among Southern Baptists in the United States against incipient modernism. |
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Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, pastors and deacons. |
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Methodists were active along with Presbyterians and Baptists. |
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Baptists collectively form the largest branch of Protestantism, and the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest individual Protestant denomination. |
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Impingements on religious liberty and church-state separation rip into the heart and soul of people worldwide, and Baptists suffer in the process. |
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