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Baptism

The Baptism is a Christian denomination after the Protestant Reformation founded in XVII century by the English clergyman John Smyth and whose members are characterized by their attachment to the letter of the Bible , the baptism as a testimony adult volunteer ( Anabaptism ) and by their spirit missionary , and by its localism. Churches Baptists emphasize:

  • the authority of Scripture as the sole basis of their faith;
  • personal conversion;
  • the testimony (while respecting freedom of conscience for each);
  • the autonomy of local churches.

We note the existence of two distinct groups whose doctrine of salvation differs:

They also have a concern for a strong commitment to an ethic of everyday life.

Baptists have developed an effective missionary, thus a Baptist, William Carey ( 1 761 - 1834 ), who founded one of the first missionaries in 1792 and has implemented Baptist Churches in India.

Today, we can estimate the Baptist World population to 125 million people, slightly more than 50 million members baptized by immersion.

  • They represent the largest Protestant denomination in the United States where there are more than 36 million followers.
  • In Europe , baptism is a minority (1.1 million people in 1981 , half in the former Soviet Union ) but it is a rapidly growing Protestant movement in recent years.

Summary

In Canada

In Canada , the first French Protestant Church of North America was founded around 1830 by Henriette Feller , a widow who leaves her bourgeois life in Switzerland for Lower Canada. She received special permission of the authorities of Lausanne to travel alone. After a port visit to New York , she joined Montreal but the opposition Catholic is very strong. She travels fifty miles to the east. It's in the farming town of Saint-Blaise it will amount to teach school subjects to children of poor farmers with material support of an owner in the area. She is assisted by a young minister of twenty-three, Louis Roussy , native also of Switzerland. The new believers in the region are intimidated by people who link the Protestant religion to the British occupation. Their houses are often vandalized. Persecution forced them to flee for a time the United States. They returned after the end of revolts against British rule which culminated in 1837. At the beginning a very modest school-house, it will expand to become the Institute Feller who will work until the 1960s and whose fame will spread. The Roussy-Memorial Church belongs to the Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada and is confirmed as the pioneer of French-speaking Protestant Churches of the Continent.

United States

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The largest Baptist community is to the United States , with 38.8 million practitioners (and a community of about fifty million people). United States, a Christian in five is a member of a Baptist church. The Southern Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist Convention), very conservative, is the largest Protestant community in America, and the second Christian denomination in the country after the Catholic Church. Faith Baptist has historically played an important role in Southern culture. It is also the majority religion among African Americans ( Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister).

France

In France , one of the first Baptist churches, most have been created in the early nineteenth century in northern France (region Douay ).

Family Baptist currently has a community of over 40,000 members gathered in over 250 assemblies such Protestant Evangelical.


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