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The Baptists are a family of free churches, which celebrated their 400th anniversary in Amsterdam and other places in 2009. One of its special features is the practice of believer's baptism. Being baptized in a Baptist church only those who have personally chosen to faith in Jesus Christ. A baptism of minors reject the Baptists from as unbiblical.

The name Baptist is derived from the Greek βαπτίζειν ( baptizein ), which means " to immerse " and " baptized " in the figurative sense. Of these, the English terms to conduct baptize ( baptize ), baptism (baptism ) and baptist ( Baptist, John the Baptist, in English John the Baptist ), which is why the community name may be derived also from the language of their mother country. As with many Christian denominations a former nickname has become the denomination designation even with the Baptists. more ...

Nevertheless Whilst no direct historical connection line between Baptists and Anabaptists could be detected, they are included in a historical point of theology to the heirs with him of the Reformation movement. Close links existed initially between Baptists and Dutch Mennonites. Significant root soils of the Baptist are the Puritan and Congregationalist currents of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Methodist revival movements of the 18th and 19th century gave the decisive impetus Baptists for their further development.

A detailed presentation of Baptist history, see the article Baptists and the German-speaking Baptists in Germany, Austria and Baptists Baptists in Switzerland. About the now historic Baptist Convention in the area of the former GDR informed Union of Evangelical Free Churches in the GDR. For the origins and spread of the Baptist are among others the following personalities:

Special Topics: free churches in the time of National Socialism

Teaching and practice of Baptists are in the following articles - partly in opposition to other views - treated:

Ministries and services of the churches: Oldest | deacon | deaconess | Evangelist | preacher

Baptism: believer's baptism | House baptisms in the New Testament | baptism | rebaptism

Supper: Communion | Communion Table | breaking of bread

Other: Freedom of religion | language of Canaan | civil marriage

In German-speaking countries, there are various institutions that deal with the study of Baptist history. These include: Oncken Archive | Theological Seminary of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches | Association of Free Church Research

Education: Theological Seminary of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches | Former Theological Seminary Buckow | Forum Wiedenest

Youth Work: Youth Department | Baptist Scout Association

Publishing, Finance: Oncken Verlag | Savings and Credit Bank of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches

Historical and current magazines: Baptist Messenger

Church: Working Group Architecture and Free Church

Diakonia: Albertinen Diakoniewerk

In the early days of the Baptist movement members of Baptist churches were buried with only the greatest difficulty in cemeteries. For this reason, some Baptist churches put on their own cemeteries, for example: Baptist Cemetery Barßel - Reekenfeld | Baptist Cemetery Gelsenkirchen | Baptist Cemetery Westerstede - Felde | Baptist Cemetery Weltersbach | Free Churches Cemetery Wuppertal

Construction sites in this topic: List of Baptist Cemeteries | List of Churches of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches | Former churches of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches | List Brauer Chapels

Most Baptists are part of the 1905 founded in London World Association of Baptists (English: Baptist World Alliance / BWA). Others, including the major American Southern Baptist Convention, belong to the Federation not to. Some Baptist church belong to neither a national nor an international coalition and maintain supra-local relations exclusively by a loosely organized community network.

The Baptist World Alliance is divided into six major regions.

North American Baptist Fellowship with, inter alia, following Mitgliedsunioen (selection ): American Baptist Churches USA | North American Baptist Conference | Progressive National Baptist Convention

Asian Baptist Federation with the following Member unions (selection): Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (India)

All- African Baptist Fellowship with the following Member unions (selection): Nigerian Baptist Convention | Baptists in Malawi

Caribbean Baptist Fellowship (still no items to each Member Unions)

Union of Baptists in Latin America (still no items to each Member Unions)

Baptist World Alliance of Communities with direct membership ( selection): Seventh-day Baptists

Baptist associations, some of which are part of the World Association of Baptists (selection): Evangelical Christians- Baptists

Not for the World Association of Baptists includes (selection ): Southern Baptist Convention (mainly U.S. ) | Alliance of Baptists (USA ) | Baptists in Malta | Baptists in Iceland | Westboro Baptist Church | Council of Baptist Churches in North East India (India)

See also: List of Baptist churches

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Baptists in Germany Federation of Evangelical Free Churches Association of Brethren churches in the Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany

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The Baptist Confession family has close kinship relationship with the Mennonites and the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches. In Germany, the Brethren movement, there is a special closeness. This is due to the merger took place in 1942 parts of the Brethren movement with the Federal German Baptists to the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany. For confessional relationship in a broader sense include the Adventists, Methodists and Pentecostals.

Baptists consider themselves not as " only true " church. You are looking for the community and the cooperation with other Christian denominations. They were instrumental in 1846 in London saw the foundation of the Evangelical Alliance, are in part a member of the World Council of Churches and in Germany in the Council of Christian Churches in Germany built. They also belong to the Association of Evangelical Free Churches of Germany. Also the German Social Service Agency and the action Bread for the World is the responsibility of Baptists. At the local and regional level, there are other forms of cooperation with other Christian churches.

Arnold Koester ( born February 3, 1896 in Wiedenest near Cologne, † October 28, 1960 in Vienna) was a Baptist preacher who publicly criticized the Nazis and thus belongs to the mainly Christian resistance to National Socialism. Kösters opinions to National Socialism can be traced since 1930 in articles in magazines and Baptist in about 500 sermons held during Austria's Nazi era. His concerns are already so for the time before the transfer of power to Adolf Hitler in 1933 demonstrated, and they were 1938 publicly expressed even after the Anschluss, as Kösters of action Wien already belonged to the Nazi sphere of influence. more ...

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That ... the Ukrainian interim president Olexandr Turchynov is a Baptist minister?
That ... the famous protest song We Shall Overcome goes back to the old Baptist hymn I'll Be All Right?
That ... the longtime director of the BEFG Manfred Otto died on 25 November 2013, 87 years? Otto was also many years on the board of the German Evangelical Alliance operates.
That ... the free churches in Austria with approximately 20,000 baptized members are a believer since August 2013 nationally recognized as a church alliance of five free churches? These free churches including the Austrian Baptist Convention.
That ... the Baptist Pastor James Manning will be honored in the United States as a champion of general education?
That ... the East Frisian comedian Otto Waalkes has visited the Sunday school of the Baptist church Emden?
That there is a ... Peter Dienel Research Center has been around since November 9, 2011 at the Baptist Theological Seminary Elstal? Peter Dienel († 2006) was an Evangelical Free Church theologian and professor of sociology. He is regarded as the inventor of Bürgerbeteilgungsverfahrens planning cell. His written heritage is located in Oncken archive.
That ... Thomas Cook, inventor of the package and founder of the eponymous travel organizer, a Baptist preacher?

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