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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Temple Baptist is a 650+ member church located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley of Northern California.
Many English Baptists were harassed, physically assaulted and imprisoned for disrupting the social fabric which knit society together.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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The Baptists were next to erect a church in Springer and to have a resident minister.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The Baptists of Connecticut knew that Jefferson and Virginia Baptists had fought such injustice in Virginia over twenty years earlier.
There was a day when Louisiana Baptists could feel they had done at least something to combat the recent sad news from college campuses about student alcohol abuse.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Baptists in Central and Eastern Europe feel a specially close connection with the Anabaptists who had an impact upon the society of their countries in earlier times, although their link with them is more of a spiritual kinship than a clear historical continuity.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Are orthodox Christians really in darkness because Baptists and Lutherans today embrace the same beliefs as Baptists and Lutherans of a hundred years ago?
Baptists once said, whatever they may say now, that a church is composed of persons baptized upon a credible profession of faith in Christ.
As Baptists, we declare and we affirm that New Testament Baptism is immersion in water and emergence from water.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Baptists were noted for their fear of synods or any central Church authority; thus, many looked with suspicion on the formation of any national organization or agency to support anything.
Baptists are also active in the American Bible Society, various mission boards, and numerous civic and social organizations.
Moderate Baptists in Texas have pledged $1 million to help Southern Baptist missionaries who decline to endors.
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