What kind of Baptist are you?

[lozzie]

I have utterly no idea I voted other... since Baptist is just Baptist here... lol

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[MrJG]

I also voted other.

See my signature for further details.

 

[Allen1901]

"What kind of Baptist ARE you?" is exactly what my Pastor keeps asking me. LOL

 

[Journey_On]

I am a Christ-follower, first and foremost.

My parents started going to a Southern Baptist church when I was really young, so those are the kinds of churches I tend to flock towards. I have also liked attending non-denominational churches.

 

[sablehalloway]

i dont know the differences

 

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[Andy S. Wright]

Recovering Baptist

 

[van_s]

There are plenty of southern baptists who are calvinists, myself among them (though I am not reformed, I am dispensational). There are reformed southern baptists, there are dispensational calvinistic southern baptists ... southern baptist does not really denote a specific set of doctrine, beyond believer's baptism, the autonomy of the local congregation, and support of the IMB.

What?????? This is exactly why I am confused on this site. What ever happen to being a bonded slave to Christ and proclaiming to be a simple Christian. I came here to find Christian fellowship, but many here speak so far above my head I have trouble understanding the point trying to be made. This only an observation and my simple opinion. Where can I find Christian 101 for dummies?

In Christ My Brothers,

Van

 

[LiturgyInDMinor]

Google is your friend at times my brother Van!
It took me a while too hehe.

 

[FreeinChrist]

"What kind of Baptist ARE you?" is exactly what my Pastor keeps asking me. LOL

 

[DeaconDean]

What?????? This is exactly why I am confused on this site. What ever happen to being a bonded slave to Christ and proclaiming to be a simple Christian. I came here to find Christian fellowship, but many here speak so far above my head I have trouble understanding the point trying to be made. This only an observation and my simple opinion. Where can I find Christian 101 for dummies?

In Christ My Brothers,

Van

You'll have to pardon us brother, a lot of us take being Baptist seriously.

And many here like me, have spent a lot of time studying.

I was raised in an Independant Baptist church growing up. I was saved when I was 12. But, not 2 years later I drifted out into the world.

Now a lot of what I learned in church always stayed with me, but for 20+ years, I was in the world.

In 1998, I redidicated my life, and the Lord placed a calling on me 2 years later. As a result, I started attending seminary.

I have always known scripture, but it has only been in the last 11 years that my thirst for knowledge has increased. I want to "study to shew thyself approved, a workman rightly dividing the word of truth".

So if we speak above your head, please dont hesitate, just ask us to clarify for you.

Any of us, Calvinists, Arminians, Reformed, and Free Will would be more than glad to try an explain anything.

Just stick around, there is enough "loose" knowldge floating around that you'll soon catch up.

God Bless

Till all are one.

 

[TimRout]

What?????? This is exactly why I am confused on this site. What ever happen to being a bonded slave to Christ and proclaiming to be a simple Christian. I came here to find Christian fellowship, but many here speak so far above my head I have trouble understanding the point trying to be made. This only an observation and my simple opinion. Where can I find Christian 101 for dummies?

In Christ My Brothers,

Van

Greetings brother,

I too must apologize. It is not our intent to make life difficult for those who have not had the privilege of advanced theological study. Most of the more learned members enjoy teaching new students, so by all means if you can't understand something I've written, please feel free to ask. If you'd rather not lay it out in a string, then PM me. I am only too happy to help address your questions.

Tim

 

[~Timothy~]

Just something to spark a little conversation...

What Baptist group do you belong to? Why?

You don't have IFB on your list. I go to a local little IFB Church where the preaching is Biblically sound and unapologetic and the worship is true.

 

[JM]

I truly fit in the "other" category. I am an independent Baptist who holds without compromise or apology to the Doctrines of Grace commonly called Calvinism. I am not Reformed or Dispensational but come close to the theology of John Gill, William Huntington and Don Fortner since he is my pastor. I was raised as a Primitive Baptist but reject the Hyper-Calvinism that is prevalent among them. I am a Baptist because I am convinced that historical Baptist thought and distinctives are as close to what is Scriptural as can be found in the present day. I believe that many, if not most, Baptists today have lost that which distinguished them from all others. My focus isn't on doctrine, as seems to be the norm among Reformed Baptists, or on eschatology, as is the norm among Dispensational groups, but on the person and work of Christ. He is all in all.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Ron.

Independent, fundamental, separated, historical, sovereign Grace Strict & Particular, Old School, Calvinistic Baptist.

I'm not Reformed or Dispensational, I use the Authorized Version and my eschatology is Premil with a heavy leaning toward historicist.

My soteriology would be consider high Calvinist, assuming supralapsarianism if the categories are valid, eternal grace, justification from eternity etc.

I've been influenced by the works John Gill, John Brine, William Huntington, William Gadsby, J.C. Philpot, A.W. Pink, Rolf Barnard and Don Fortner.

I would consider covenant theology truth, but not Reformed covenant theology, more of a modified version of it.

I voted other.

 

[Vambram]

I selected Other on this poll. I was born-again in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church in Zweibruecken, Germany in 1978. This was a church whose pastor was a missionary to the American military in West Germany. He is a graduate of Tennessee Temple University. Ever since then, all the churches where I have had membership have been in Independent Fundamental Baptist churches. After high school, I attended Tennessee Temple University from 1982 through 1986 earning 90 credits in that school working towards a degree in Missions. In 1986, the Lord led me to transfer to Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO. My home church after my father and family left Germany in 1981 is a wonderful IFB church which is part of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. My home church is Trinity Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas.
Although I failed to graduate from college and failed to fufill the Lord's call on my life to be one of His missionaries in foreign lands; I still remember and hold true to my teachings and lessons learned from TTU in Chattanooga, TN as well as BBC in Springfield, MO.
Denominationally, I consider myself to be an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist.

 

[AlabamaStreetPreacher]

Nearly lifelong SBC guy here. Glad to see the discussion!

 

[Allen1901]

Nearly lifelong SBC guy here. Glad to see the discussion!

Welcome to CF!

God Bless!

 

[epistemaniac]

Reformed Baptist here...

blessings,
ken

 

[van_s]

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Ron.

Independent, fundamental, separated, historical, sovereign Grace Strict & Particular, Old School, Calvinistic Baptist.

I'm not Reformed or Dispensational, I use the Authorized Version and my eschatology is Premil with a heavy leaning toward historicist.

My soteriology would be consider high Calvinist, assuming supralapsarianism if the categories are valid, eternal grace, justification from eternity etc.

I've been influenced by the works John Gill, John Brine, William Huntington, William Gadsby, J.C. Philpot, A.W. Pink, Rolf Barnard and Don Fortner.

I would consider covenant theology truth, but not Reformed covenant theology, more of a modified version of it.

I voted other.

Wow! I don't know what to say after that. Please forgive a brother in Christ, but I'm just glad to be a Christian who happens to serve Christ in a Baptist church.

What would Paul be considered by today's terminology?

Hear to learn more about my beliefs.

 

[JM]

You are a Christian, what do you believe?