AFFILIATE CHURCHES
American Baptist Association
America Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
Baptist Bible Fellowship, International
Baptist General Conference
Baptist Missionary Association of America
Bethel Ministerial Association
Black Baptist
Central Baptist Association
Conservative Baptist Association of America
Duck River Assn. of Baptists (Baptist Church of God)
Free Will Baptist
General Association of Free Will Baptist Churches
General Baptist
General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Chur, Inc.
Landmark Baptist
National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
North American Baptist Conference
Primitive Baptist
Reformed Baptist
Separate Baptists in Christ (Gen. Assn. of Separate Baptists)
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference
Southern Baptist Convention
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Presbyterian Baptist
United Baptist
United Free Will Baptist Church

BEGAN: 1605 A.D. by John Smythe of England (Roger Williams 1639 A.D. in USA). The Baptist Church, originally called Anabaptist, is a movement which seceded from the Lutheran Reformation and embracing the holiness of the Puritan movement.

CHURCH GOVERNMENT: The Baptist Convention, the general and local Superintendents, the local Church Pastor, deacons and local congregation. The Pastor has considerable autonomy from the Baptist hierarchy. He also is the principal leader in the local Church, however, the deacons and congregation vote in, and can dismiss, the Pastor.

MAJOR DOCTRINAL EMPHASIS: Two Sacraments: Water Baptism & the Lords Supper. The Bread and Wine are considered emblematic (a figure) of Jesus' Body and Blood, rather than a miraculous transformation.
Water baptism by immersion of adults only, generally called Believers Baptism. The Baptist (as Anabaptist) seceded from the Lutheran Reformation primarily in opposition to Infant Baptism, believing it to be not only unscriptural, but also misleading and potentially a danger to true repentance and mature belief in the heart of the baptized candidate.
Baptists advocate the evangelical born again experience by Jesus baptizing the believer into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. They demonstrate a high level focus on Discipleship, Evangelism and Missions outreach. The Baptist are anti-clerical (no civil or religious authority outside the local Church or parish). They are dogmatic about scriptural authority and inspiration.

Bibliography: R. Torbet, A History of the Baptists; Elwell 's Evangelical Dict.ionary; Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions; Worldwide Christian Encyclopedia; Grolier Encyclopedia; Mead/Hill, Handbook of Denominations.

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