Baptist Distinctives · Foundational
Where Baptists Came From
Baptist churches come from the church Jesus started, which He promised would never cease, and English Baptists enter the documentary record in the early 1600s, without ever having been a branch of Rome.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
Why the story of Baptist churches begins with Christ's promise and not with a date
2
The difference between perpetuity and chain-link succession
3
What the documents show about the free churches, and what they do not show
4
How English Baptists entered the record through Smyth, Helwys, the Particular Baptists, and Providence
5
Why Baptists are not Protestants, and how history should make us humble and obedient
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