2. Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s
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

3. Baptist churches are not in the NT
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

4. History & Organization
Denominations
Baptist
History & Organization
Doctrines & Practices

5. History & Organization
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

6. History & Organization
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

7. History & Organization
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

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

9. History & Organization
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

10. History & Organization
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

11. 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).

12. 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

13. Salvation by faith alone
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).

14. Salvation by faith alone
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

15. Once saved always saved
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).

16. Once saved always saved
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

17. Baptism is not essential to salvation
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).

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

19. Baptism is not essential to salvation
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

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

21. Harder to get in Baptist Church
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

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

23. Baptism is not essential to salvation
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
Gross
Sin
Kicked Out
Of Baptist
Church
Cannot be
Kicked out
Of Heaven

24. History & Organization
Denominations
Baptist
History & Organization
Doctrines & Practices

25. Baptist churches are traced to the 1600s
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

26. Baptist churches are not in the NT
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