Seventh Day Baptists
Seventh-day Baptists are Baptists who observe the Sabbath on Saturday, the seventh according to Judeo- Christian tradition, the day of the week. ( Note: Although applicable in many countries of the world according to ISO 8601, that the week starts with Monday, keep all Christian churches continue on Sunday as first day of week fixed. )
History
The first written mention of the Seventh-day Baptists was the Mill Yard Seventh Day Baptist Church in London in 1653 under the direction of Dr. Peter Chamberlen. The first Seventh- Day Baptists in America was founded in December 1671 at Newport (Rhode Iceland ). Stephen Mumford, a Seventh-day Baptist from England, in 1665 came to Rhode Iceland. There he found no church " the seventh day " and ( " first - day " ) Baptist church joined in Newport, which was then headed by Pastor John Clarke. They worked together until 1671. Then subjected to Mumford and his followers back and founded the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport.
Other communities arose in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and soon spread north to Connecticut and New York, and south to Virginia and Carolina from.
As a spin-off of the emigrated from Germany and Switzerland Anabaptist- Pietist Schwarzenau Brethren ( Tunkern ) was created in 1735 with the Siebentägner - Tunkern also a sabbath -holding community in Ephrata (Pennsylvania), on the back is also the local Ephrata Cloister. The church in Ephrata joined the Religious Society of 1814 also Seventh Day Baptists at.
A General Conference of Seventh-day Baptists was organized in 1801.
Joseph Bates, co-founder of the Seventh- day Adventist Church, took over the Sabbath thoughts of the Seventh-day Baptists.
Dissemination
In 1995, the Seventh-day Baptists in the USA 78 congregations with 4885 members, and 2 municipalities with 55 members in the United Kingdom and a church with 40 members in Canada. In other countries emerged communities in the Free Church. The World Association of Seventh-day Baptists was founded in 1964/1965 and called 50,000 members in 17 member organizations in 22 countries currently. In Germany, however, no more communities are known, but in Germany 28 communities had existed in 1939 with 533 believers. These were mostly former Adventists, as well as their overseer Ludwig Richard Conradi. The municipalities, however, dissolved in the course of time completely. Currently in Germany there are only individual sabbath holding Baptists - some with memberships overseas.
Apart from the fact that they consider the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, tune the Seventh-day Baptists agree in the fundamental views with other Baptists.
The General Conference of Seventh-day Baptists is therefore also a member of the Baptist World Alliance, the Baptist World Alliance.