Denominational Sites

In a related topic on this forum, Baptist Groups, we are discussing the various Baptist groups in the United States. I thought some of you might like some links to some of these groups.

Baptist General Conference
Seventh Day Baptist Conference
Old Regular Baptist
Sovereign Grace Baptist Association
Continental Baptist Churches
North American Baptist Conference
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship
Fundamental Baptist Fellowship
Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
Independent Baptist Fellowship International
Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association
Global Independent Baptist Fellowship
General Association of General Baptists
General Association of Separate Baptists
Primitive Baptists
New Testament Association of Independent Baptists
Minnesota Baptist Association
National Primitive Baptist Convention, Inc.
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
National Missionary Baptist Convention
Old Time Missionary Baptists
American Baptist Association
Baptist Missionary Association
General Association of Regular Baptists
American Baptist Churches in the USA
National Association of Free Will Baptists
Baptist Bible Fellowship
Absolute Predestinarian Baptist
Eastern District Association
Gospel Standard Strict Baptists
Progressive National Baptist Convention
Old Bethlehem Association of United Baptists
Old Line Primitive Baptists

Most of these sights are official sites of the group, but a few of them are not.

[ April 15, 2002, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: rlvaughn ]

 

Do any of you know of websites for any of the other LESS KNOWN groups of Baptists? They would probably prove very interesting.

 

I am researching other websites for sub-groups of Baptists. I will add these and others to the first post on this topic. So WATCH for new links to be added to the first post.

 

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

r5dots, the first step I will take toward answering your question is to give a little background that builds a foundation for the differences among Baptists in the United States. The major origin of American Baptists is the Baptists of England. English Baptists fell into two basic categories: (1) General Baptists and (2) Particular Baptists. The General Baptists held that Christ's atonement was in general for all men predicated upon their repentance and faith. The Particular Baptists held that Christ's atonement was in particular for only those elected by God to salvation. Both kinds of English Baptists came to America and established churches. Two early controversies among Baptists in America were the laying on of hands (after baptism), and the seventh day sabbath versus the first day of the week. This created two more kinds of Baptists - the Six-Principle Baptists (for laying on of hands as an ordinance) and the Seventh Day Baptists. The Particular Baptists came to predominate the Baptist scene, especially through the influence of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. They became known as Regular Baptists. The General Baptists became almost extinct. The element of them that survived in the South became known as Freewill Baptists (the present day General Association of General Baptists came from Benoni Stinson and others, Regular Baptists who adopted the general atonement position). In the North, there was a strong Free Baptist movement that came out of the Regulars, and flourished in New England. Most of these New England Free Baptists would in the early 1900's become part of the Northern Baptist Convention (now ABCUSA). The Great Awakening led to an influx to the Baptists of people that held some positions not common with the Regulars. They were identified as Separates. The Separates and Regulars set aside their minor differences and united around 1800, and agreed to be called United Baptists. The great push for missionary and benevolent societies, theological seminaries, and other movements brought dissension among the "United" Baptists, and this dissension brought division. Those in favor of these movements were in the majority and generally continued to be called Regulars, though they were called Missionaries by their opponents. Those who looked on these movements as unbiblical innovations came to call themselves the Primitive (meaning original) Baptists. Upon the heels of this division, the Regular (missionary) Baptists would again be divided, this time geographically. The Baptists were unable to withstand the political upheaval going on in the nation over slavery and other sectional issues. This created the Northern and Southern Baptists (although the Northern Baptists did not adopt a convention system until early 1900; the SBC was organized in 1845). A few Baptist groups of today have a somewhat different background because of ethnic origin. This includes the National Baptist Conventions (African-American), the Baptist General Conference (Swedish), and the North American Baptist Conference (German).

These facts provide a basis for some of broad categories I used in my first post on "Baptist Groups in the USA". They are from Albert W. Wardin's books and not original with me. Broad divisions among Baptists are that they divided (1) theologically over the atonement; (2) geographically; (3) over means; and (4) by ethnicity. Then there are divisions within these broad categories.

I will plan to post more on the subject later.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nat'l Baptist Guy:
The Progressive National Baptist Convention was forgotten about and so was the National Baptist Convention of America<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

National Baptist Guy - I have found a website for the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and added a link to it (See above in the first post). I have not found a website for the National Baptist Convention of America. If anyone finds one and lets me know, I will add it as well.

 

Here is a website concerning our Baptist Heritage. It has information on different Baptist Groups, Historical Societies, Educational Institutions, etc., as well as history and a dictionary. Some parts of the site are still under construction. Check it out; it's very good!

 

Thomas, I have contacted Mr. Bill Sumners concerning the error on the Pillsbury BBC, as well as about a few other places that were at least lacking in information concerning Baptist Groups. I do not feel that the people putting this web site together want to deliberately misrepresent. We shall see. Some things can be pointed out as wrong facts, such as the Pillsbury reference; other things I might consider misinformation is based on a different interpretation of historical facts.

Joshua, I can probably be painted with the trail of blood crowd brush, and I do dispute certain interpretations made by those of the English Separatist origin and Anabaptist (only) origin theories. But, this is a great web site that I believe will only get better.

In several places on the Baptist Heritage site, addresses are made available so persons may contact them with new information or to relate errors, etc. at the site. If any of you do not personally want to contact them, I will be glad to write concerning errors if you will provide good documentation showing the problem.

[ October 18, 2001: Message edited by: rlvaughn ]

 

I have added a link to the Old Bethlehem Association of United Baptist Church of Jesus Christ to the first post of this topic. It gives articles of faith, links to some of the churches, and other information. This is one of the older style United Baptist Associations.