Please HELP!!! Can you tell me the difference between Baptist & Apostolic
Please be as descriptive as possible, I want to know basic differences.
My wife would like to put my son in an Apostolic School but we both have been raised in Baptist. Not looking to convert. I just don't want to confuse my son. Because it has already confused me.
It seems likely that the school is question is offered by one of the Pentecostal "Apostolic Churches." There are many such that have "Apostolic" in their name. If you do not happen to be charismatic baptists, such a school would, indeed, be rather different than the offerings of your church.
This "Apostolic Churches forum" is something different again. This forum is for churches that are in historic apostolic succession; such as the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, the Old catholics, the Anglicans, and others.
I hope this helps to clear up your confusion. If not, please respond, and we'll stay with it until we do.
Michael
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Thank you for the reply. But it did not address key differences in apostolic & baptist.
You're asking in the wrong forum. We're not that type of "Apostolic". You would probably do best to attend the church that sponsors the school, or just ask them.
Please be as descriptive as possible, I want to know basic differences.
My wife would like to put my son in an Apostolic School but we both have been raised in Baptist. Not looking to convert. I just don't want to confuse my son. Because it has already confused me.
Thank you
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Generally the denomination that calls their places of worship and schools 'Apostolic' are Evangelicals and not true Apostolic Christians.
Thank you for the reply. But it did not address key differences in apostolic & baptist.
Baptists come in every variety. So, it is difficult to say what makes your Baptist church different from the Apostolic school mentioned. If the Apostolic school is protestant, then they are using the word "apostolic" with a very different definition than used in this forum for "apostolic."
Apostolic protestants are more likely to be charismatic, which means they believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit (such as speaking in tongues, supernatural prophecy, and healing) are functioning in the church today. Baptists are more likely to be cessationists, which means they do not believe that those gifts are in operation in today's church.
Apostolic protestants, I believe, would claim to be practicing the Christian life as the apostles of Jesus did at that time. Baptists would claim to be practicing the Christian life with a primary emphasis on following the teaching of the Bible. This may be a distinction, because the Bible as we know it was not a settled collection of writings until the councils of the late fourth century.
Another distinction might be the form of church government. Baptists are more likely to have a congregational form of government, in which the assembly of members votes on issues of import. An "apostolic" protestant church might be governed by a "bishop" or a board of "elders" that makes decisions for the assembly without regard to input from the general membership.
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What we're trying to say is that we aren't the kind of "Apostolic" as that school you're looking into, so we really don't know how to help you, except direct you to the Pentecostal forum, here:
Pentecostals who commonly go by the name apostolic (though falsely so) commonly speak in tongues while most Baptists do not. Pentecostals are very charismatic in their worship while most Baptists are not. Pentecostals practice a thing called "slain in the Spirit" or "resting in the Spirit", Baptists do not. If you'd like to learn more about Pentecostals, try the Assemblies of God website which is a common Pentecostal denomination. You can find it here:
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