i have only been a member of a Baptist church for 6 months or so now ... i am a recovering Catholic
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Not to sound snippy, but "First Baptist" is the most popular name for a Baptist church. Perhaps its so some will get confused on which one they attend? Perhaps it is an attempt to draw Baptists who move from city to another and see "First Baptist" and think that if it was a good church where I came from, this one may just as good.
I don't really know. Other than the fact that it is without a doubt, it is the most popular name for a Baptist church.
Perhaps the same could be asked of Catholic churches? Why do each one start out as St. _______ Catholic Church?
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Till all are one.
ty all for you responses ... makes sense that it is called that & i made that original assumption, but i wasn't sure if the reason was that simple ... i recently started traveling as a salesman & noticed more and more ... one name that i saw that i was curious about was "Consolation Baptist" somewhere in Georgia
Charles H. Spurgeon said:We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as our martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with Government, and we will never make the Church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men.
We don't have (1st) Baptist as part of my church's name even though the name of the town in part of the church name. We had people confused though at times between the 2 churches.
Some Baptist churches though are even dropping the word *Baptist* from their name to get away from being branded as a religion instead of a Bible teaching, believing church.
Calvary is a popular Baptist name as well.
Would that be the First Last Baptist Church?
... even a great pastor like Spurgeon could be off base. That was a prevailing thought among some Baptists 150 years ago, but no one among the leadership of any Baptist denomination today is so prideful as to adhere to such nonsense. Denominations are nothing in the kingdom of God.I think the word "First" refers to the thought that Baptist were the First Christians of the first century in the early Church.
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