Baptist

bible congregation and now is what some would call a mega church, weekly attendance is 5,000 people. Choosing a Church I have been wanting to find a church to join for a while now. I live over 45 minutes from what I consider my home church, First Baptist Church of St. Paul on Wacouta and 9th. I enjoy attending church to learn more about God and like the sense of community it brings. My friend attends Grace Church and has been asking me to attend church with him. He felt Grace Church would be…

Wayland’s Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches is an extensive anthology of papers, essays, and instructions on Baptist faith and practice. The subjects of the work sprawl from specifically Baptist theological, ethical, and political commitments—i.e., principles—to concrete issues of polity, preaching, ordination, membership, theological curriculum, and sermon preparation—i.e., practices. What unites these essays, of course, is their Baptist distinctiveness, which, for…

In fact, in the study Baptists are said to be the most obese out of every denomination. According to Ferraro, Baptists were the most obese denomination due to the “less healthy eating patterns in the South, home to many Baptists. In the study we controlled for residency and still Baptist women were more likely to be obese. This trend could be related to the strong emphasis for Baptists to avoid alcohol and tobacco, and, as a result, many of them indulge…

Evangelical Protestants maintain influence in American democracy due to their size and involvement in government. One third of Americans are considered to be evangelical Christians. Evangelical Protestants adhere to a strict moral code and place a strong emphasis on the importance of family values. As a result, they object to gay marriage, stem cell research, and abortion. Evangelicals are firm in their beliefs and form pluralist groups like the National Association of Evangelicals, the Family…

Jubilee Album Outline: The 50s The first decade of Baptist Bible College marks one of its most successful decades. Opening September 5, 1950, 107 students were the first to attend classes that were held in High Street Baptist Church. Certainly all of the founding leaders G.B. Vick, John Rawlings, W.E. Dowell, Fred Donnelson, Noel Smith, and R.O. Woodworth were all key to the success of BBC in its first decade. Many graduates would attribute their success to these leaders who taught their classes…

Argument, coming from Carl Rogers’ theory, is an effective analysis within written arguments. Essentially, it involves adopting the role of a once therapist to aid in solving or coming to a compromise of an issue. The passage “Letter to a Southern Baptist Minister” written by Edward O. Wilson, argues that religion and science could potentially join together. The author uses restatement, which just manipulates the words of the speaker to change their understanding. He proves his point by not…

attendee”. The status of “church attendee” at this church comes with some auxiliary traits- or expected attitudes or characteristics of a certain label- such as being polite, conservative, and follower of the lord. I believe since I was attending a Baptist church with certain ideals, they were shocked when I was not in like with the auxiliary traits that the status, I was assumed to be occupying (ie “church attendee”) had (Adler and Alder;…

Today we recall the Passion of John the Baptist. Mark chronicles John’s arrest, imprisonment and death. It is a horrific story and it mirrors the atrocities that we human being continually perpetrate on one another. John’s crime was the bluntly told Herod that is was not lawful for him to marry Herodias, his brother’s wife! When Herodias heard this, she harbored a grudge against John and she was determined to have him killed! However, she did not have the authority or means to do so!…

Some people spend their entire life trying to discover their purpose, while others find out at a young age and spend the rest of their live figuring out how to apply this purpose to their life. No matter how put together one’s life may appear, many people struggle with figuring out who they are. One’s identity is a very private and personal thing, but is also influenced by factors such as culture, family, and friends and in return affects the same factors. When asked “who are you?”, people…

Reformation in England, the roots of Southern Baptist were born. John Smyth was a strong promoter of adult baptism and started to baptize others and even re-baptized himself. In 1638, Thomas Helwys and John Smyth established 50 Baptist churches in England. When 1638 came around, Roger Williams fled to America and started the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Southern Baptism was introduced in 1830 when there was tension in the Baptist church and it split into two branches:…