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Thu Aug 6, 2015, 04:27 PMStar Member ColesCountyDem (6,811 posts)"10 Facts You Should Know About American Baptists"On occasion, I suspect that we have all been asked, "What should I know about your church?". American Baptist Churches USA (f/k/a the Northern Baptist Convention) has recently published a booklet that explains the history of our denomination, our beliefs, practices, organization and governance. On the inside front cover of this booklet is printed "10 Facts You Should Know About American Baptists", and I share these with you. I hope you find them educational, and hope that they will help you to understand why we are proudly a progressive denomination. The rest at the link
Response to ColesCountyDem (Original post)Mon Jul 4, 2016, 11:15 PMLydia Leftcoast (48,217 posts)5. My last teaching job was at an American Baptist collegeI had never heard of the denomination before, so I asked my potential colleagues whether the college would require me to sign doctrinal statements or supervise my personal life. I have heard of Southern Baptist colleges that do both.Fortunately, the answer in both cases was "no."
Response to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #5)Tue Jul 5, 2016, 07:26 AMStar Member ColesCountyDem (6,811 posts)6. As you discovered, our burden is light, and our yoke is easy, so to speak.We American Baptists focus first and foremost on having an individual relationship with God, and firmly believe that that relationship is intensely personal and is not subject to church inquiry, scrutiny or forced observance. Furthermore, as you discovered, your personal life is personal, within the bounds of common decency and the law.You're not alone in not having heard of us: we are much smaller than the SBC, who most people think synonymous with the word 'Baptist'. We are FAR more progressive and, as such, not very interesting to today's MSM.
The thread was started last August.http://www.democraticunderground.com/12221605Wandering on the island with it so boring today and noticed the post from a couple weeks ago.Maybe you should have reflected on that before you turned the child porn on Bob.
