Subject: Re: Baptist Difference?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:59:24 -0500
From: "drdave" <>
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.baptist

Ah Rowland --
Being from a saner part of the world you haven't had the privilege of
encountering my own former sect -- the Southern Baptists.

They would disagree slightly with your babdis (as we say here in Texas)
distinctives.

1.  They would say, "Jesus is Lard."
2.  The Bible is the inerrant word of God as interpreted by Southern
Baptists.
3.  The church is where the gullible and guilty are taught to
proselytize.
4.  The sign of entry into the church is "Folks like us only"
5.  Each local Southern Baptist church is anarchist and raucous.
6.  Southern Baptists should be free to tell everyone else how to vote
and
how to believe while remaining completely unaccountable themselves.

drdave (and yes I am a former ordained SoB minister)


Rowland Croucher <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> John WorldPeace wrote:
> >
> > >?
> > >From:  
> > >Date: Mon, 20 September 1999 05:31 PM EDT
> > >Message-id: <7s6940>
> > >
> > >I am very curious what Baptists believe.  What separates them from
other
> > >denominations? Is it just a title?
>
> As a Baptist pastor for 35 years, and author of 'Baptist Church
> Membership' for Australian and NZ churches... how about this (for a
> traditional/conventional expression of Baptist emphases):
>
> 1. God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - is One. Jesus is 'Lord.'
> 2. The Bible is the authoritative Word of God (written)
> 3. The Church is comprised of those who have chosen to follow Jesus as
> Lord, and are committed to the Word of God in Scripture. All church
> members are 'priests'...
> 4. The 'sign' of entry into the church is baptism, which in the
> apostolic era was normally by immersion, of adults.
> 5. Each local Baptist church is autonomous.
> 6. People should be free to choose their own belief-system, without
> persecution, or interference by State authorities.