Baptist

This source names Baptist directly: "commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention's own Sexual Abuse Task Force and carried out by Guidepost Solutions, a third party investigations firm, released May 15, 2022."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Southern Baptist Convention's own resolution, adopted 20 to 22 June 1995 in Atlanta on its 150th anniversary, acknowledging that slavery played a role in the convention's 1845 formation and..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Southern Baptist Convention's own 1992 resolution affirming that neither local Baptist churches nor general Baptist bodies, including the Convention itself, hold coercive authority over one..."

This source names Baptist directly: "full religious liberty, sheltering Baptists, Quakers and Jews alike."

This source names Baptist directly: "a same-sex union ceremony at Covenant Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., a member congregation of the Progressive National Baptist Convention."

This source names Baptist directly: "organization founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor Bob Pierce, and led since 1979 by Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham."

This source names Baptist directly: "founding history: founded 1970 by Baptist pastor Bob Pierce in Hollywood, California, relocated to Boone, North Carolina after Franklin Graham became president in 1979."

This source names Baptist directly: "commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention's own Sexual Abuse Task Force and carried out by Guidepost Solutions, a third party investigations firm, released May 2022."

This source names Baptist directly: "and later arrangements and Lowry's Baptist ministry and hymnal editing career."

He was formed in the British Baptist mission and led its choir before the events of 1949.

He was a catechist of the Baptist Missionary Society before 1921.

This source names Baptist directly: "Digital Archivist at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary."

Southern Baptist Convention Disfellowships Saddleback Church (Christianity Today) names Baptist by its exact full name: ristianity Today reporting the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's Februa

This source names Baptist directly: "reference page on the National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated's stance on LGBTQ issues."

This source names Baptist directly: "Nashville's density of Southern Baptist, Church of Christ and gospel music publishing houses earned it the nickname the buckle of the Bible Belt, anchored by the Southern Baptist Convention's..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Baptist Faith and Message is the Southern Baptist Convention's own confessional statement, first adopted in 1925 and revised in 1963 and again in 2000, and this record states that revision..."

This source names Baptist directly: "under the imprint of the American Baptist Publication Society."

This source names Baptist directly: "own digitized item record for The Baptist Hymnal, for Use in the Church and Home, giving E."

This source names Baptist directly: "Episcopal Church, the National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated, the National Baptist Convention of America, the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the Church of God in Christ."

This source names Baptist directly: "Stone but drawing Methodist and Baptist preachers as well, who sometimes preached simultaneously from separate stumps and wagons to different sections of the crowd, it became the largest and most..."

This source names Baptist directly: "between the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, God the Father above him and the Holy Spirit as a dove between them, surrounded by patriarchs, prophets, apostles and martyrs seated on clouds."

This source names Baptist directly: "Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, prepared with an unqualified opinion by Batts Morrison Wales & Lee, P.A."

This source names Baptist directly: "of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist," by the Italian artist Giovanni Baronzio, ca."

This source names Baptist directly: "of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist," a tempera on wood panel by the Italian artist Giovanni Baronzio, ca."

This source names Baptist directly: "for designing Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and the 1993 discovery of 411 of his architectural printing plates."

This source names Baptist directly: "centered on veneration of John the Baptist and surviving today mainly among Iraqi and Iranian diaspora communities, written by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements."

This source names Baptist directly: "the 1830s and early 1840s around the Baptist preacher William Miller's biblically calculated prediction that Christ would return between 1843 and 1844."

This source names Baptist directly: "Faith is a primary nineteenth century Baptist confessional document, adopted by the New Hampshire Baptist Convention in 1833, and historically influential well beyond its own state as later Baptist..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Progressive Baptist Hymnal was published in 1976 in Washington, D.C."

This source names Baptist directly: "which compiles publication details for Baptist hymn books issued between 1951 and 2000."

This source names Baptist directly: "Baptist News Global, an independent religion news outlet unaffiliated with the United Methodist Church or any Methodist body, reporting the November 2025 ratification of the United Methodist..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Williamsburg's First Baptist Church, organised by enslaved and free Black worshippers around 1776, is among the oldest Black congregations in the country."

This source names Baptist directly: "company sponsored and independent Baptist and Methodist churches, shaped community life across the southern coalfields through the twentieth century, often the only social institution a mining town..."

This source names Baptist directly: "doctrinal statement of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated, published on the denomination's own website as its Articles of Faith."

This source names Baptist directly: "what it identifies as the American Baptist Churches USA General Board's own November 2005 amendment to the confessional document "We Are American Baptists": "A Biblical People: Who submit to the..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Wikipedia's article on Baptists, a continuously edited tertiary source with no fixed publication year, accessed 2026-08-20."

This source names Baptist directly: "Edward the Confessor and by John the Baptist; the right panel shows the Virgin and Child surrounded by eleven angels, several wearing Richard's personal badge of a white hart, one holding a banner..."

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A Baptist convention.

A Baptist convention.

There is no monastic life and no celibate clergy, and pastors ordinarily marry.

There is no confirmation, since the profession of faith precedes baptism rather than following it years after.

Baptism is for those who have professed faith, so the baptism of an infant is not a baptism at all and a person so treated is baptised on profession later. This is the point on which the tradition takes its name.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper are two ordinances, not seven sacraments, and neither conveys grace.

The veneration of images is rejected outright.

Prayer is offered to God alone, and the saints are not asked to intercede.

Baptists reject papal primacy, holding to the priesthood of all believers and the autonomy of the local congregation instead of any single earthly head of the church.

Baptists reject Purgatory; the two Baptist ordinances, baptism and the Lord's Supper, are held to be symbolic acts of obedience, not means of grace or purification after death.

Baptists reject the Real Presence and transubstantiation; the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial act per the Baptist Faith and Message, Article VII.

Baptist churches keep a communion table rather than an altar, because the supper is an ordinance remembered and not a sacrifice offered.

Baptist churches are congregational, and no officer outside the local congregation holds authority over it.

Baptist churches are gathered congregations, not territories, and associate voluntarily rather than under a bishop.

Baptist teaching recognises no state of life more perfect than any other and has never had vowed communities.

Refused, since Baptist churches hold that no state of life is more consecrated than another and that the ordinary Christian calling is lived in the world.

Baptist polity holds each gathered congregation competent to govern itself under Christ, which leaves no room for an office ruling the whole church.

A Baptist church is a congregation of professed believers who have chosen one another, which is precisely what a parish is not.

Refused, on the ground that every believer has direct access to God and no mediating order stands between.

Baptist confessions follow the Reformed canon in excluding Tobit, so Raphael has no scriptural warrant in Baptist teaching.

The memorial view: the supper is an ordinance of remembrance rather than a means of grace conveying a presence.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 1 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 2 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 3 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 4 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Daniel, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Esther, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Baruch, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Judith, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Tobit, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Books of the Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Letter of Jeremiah, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Prayer of Manasseh, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Psalm 151, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Sirach, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Solomon, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

Sung as an invitation hymn at the close of the sermon, which is the moment Baptist worship is built toward.

The pastor of a Baptist congregation is called by that congregation and serves it, and his authority comes from that call rather than from an office above it.

Sacred Harp singing spread through the Baptist South as a singing school held apart from Sunday worship, which is how it survived the arrival of the organ in the church.

The guarantee against an establishment of religion answers directly the disabilities Baptists had suffered in the colonies, and the tradition has defended it as a religious principle rather than only a civil one.

Baptist churches confess the Nicene faith in substance while holding that no council has authority over a gathered congregation, so the creed is received as testimony and never imposed as a term of communion.

Baptists were the decisive constituency for disestablishment in Virginia, and the refusal of any established church is a Baptist principle long before it is an American one.

Most Baptist congregations serve the cup in individual glasses rather than from a common chalice, a nineteenth century change that spread on hygienic grounds and settled into practice.

Baptist deacons are chosen by the congregation to serve it and to support the pastor. The office is not an order of ministry and confers no authority to preach or to administer the ordinances.

Baptist confessions hold justification by faith alone, faith read as reliance on Christ rather than as an infused virtue perfected by charity.

Baptist usage follows the New Testament in calling every believer a saint, so the word names the whole church rather than a class within it.

Atonement for sin through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Giving to the needy is treated as a duty of stewardship over what is held in trust from God.

Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, and it is an ordinance rather than a sacrament: an act of obedience and a public testimony, not a means by which grace is conveyed.

Baptism reserved for believers who can personally profess faith, by immersion, is the tradition's defining and namesake doctrine, per the Baptist Faith and Message.

Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.

Each local congregation is self-governing under Christ, with no bishop or higher court holding binding authority over it, per the Baptist Faith and Message.

The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Clergy or specialist role within Baptist.

A Baptist congregation founded in 1877, pastored by Martin Luther King Jr. from 1954 to 1960.

Kept as Resurrection Sunday. Baptist churches keep no liturgical calendar and no season of Lent, so the day stands on its own rather than closing a cycle.

A Baptist congregation founded in 1886, pastored by Martin Luther King Sr. and later co-pastored by Martin Luther King Jr.

Fasting is practised without a calendar, appointed by a congregation or undertaken privately.

Foot washing is kept as a third ordinance by Free Will, Primitive and some other Baptist bodies, and not by the tradition as a whole.

The funeral is a service of the congregation, plain in form, with no prayer offered for the dead.

The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.

A congregation calls and ordains its own pastor, and ordination confers no order and no authority beyond the congregation that gave it. The two scriptural offices are pastor and deacon.

The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Marriage is solemnised by the congregation's minister and is not held to be a sacrament.

Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions alike, including this tradition.

Sunday is kept for worship as the Lord's Day, without a sabbatarian theory of it.

God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Prayer is ordinarily free rather than read, and the tradition has resisted set forms in public worship from the seventeenth century onward.

Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.

A Black Baptist congregation founded in 1873, a principal organizing site of the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign.

The Baptist confessions follow the Reformed pattern here, holding that faith receives and rests on Christ's righteousness and is not itself the ground of acceptance.

Scripture is held as the sole authority for faith and practice, and the autonomy of the local congregation rests on the claim that no other authority stands between the believer and the text.

Christ as the Son of God is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The confessional statement of the Southern Baptist Convention. Other Baptist bodies in the United States do not use it and several were formed by people who declined it.

Dispensational premillennialism, widely held across the American bodies though not confessed by all of them.