Southern Baptists and American Baptists share many common core beliefs. Both Baptist groups celebrate two sacraments, which they refer to as ordinances.
They celebrate Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper, as a symbol of Jesus' sacrificial death and their belief in his resurrection. Baptists also celebrate believers' baptism. Only those old enough to understand the faith and to make the choice to accept it are baptized. They are immersed in water, or dunked underneath and brought out, as a symbol of being resurrected to a new life in Christ. Both Baptist churches believe in the value of evangelism and mission in order to "make disciples of all nations.
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Landmark Baptists held that Jesus had established a Baptist church and that only Baptist churches had an unbroken succession back to the New Testament.
Their influence in Southern Baptist life can still be felt. The most basic Baptist unit is the local church. But organizations have risen at a higher level. The Triennial Baptist Convention was established in to support Baptist foreign missions. It soon united Baptist associations, societies, and eventually educational and publishing efforts. It attempted neutrality over slavery, but when its Home Mission Society refused to appoint a slave owner as a missionary, the Southern Baptist Convention formed in But the most disgusting change they made was regarding women.
Hear more Tennessee voices: Get the weekly opinion newsletter for insightful and thought-provoking columns. Over the last 30 years, the fundamentalists changed SBC policy to make it clear they view women as inferior to men. Prior to the fundamentalist takeover, the SBC championed gender equality from the church to the mission field, even naming its flagship annual missions offering after feminist missionary Lottie Moon.
In Think about that. It extends into the home. Any seminary president, missionary or Lifeway employee that refused to sign the statement was fired. Baptists always have maintained the need for autonomous congregations, responsible for articulating their own doctrine, style of worship and mission. American Baptists hold that all who truly seek God are both competent and called to develop in that relationship. American Baptists also celebrate the special gifts of all believers, testifying that God can use each of us in ministry.
As a people whose forbears came together in response to intolerance, American Baptists have cherished freedom and pursued it for millions around the world.
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