Baptist Sunday School Lessons

[Jim_Dandy]

I attend a Baptist Bible class every Sunday night in order to evangelize and set the record straight on what Catholics really believe. Of course I try to do it in the most charitable way possible because I am, after all, in their church.

They are wonderful and loving people who really take the Gospel seriously. They just have some misinterpretations.

Half of the class are praying for my conversion to Baptist beliefs, but the other half accepts me as a fellow Christian. I think I’m making some progress.

I’d really be interested to know the denom of Baptists you are ‘evangelizing’? How did you get started? With some Baptists, “Hello, I’m Catholic,” could get you stoned (figuratively speaking).

Do your classmates know where we got the Bible? (Don’t mean to derail the thread. I’ll start another.)

Jim Dandy
Former Baptist

 

[valentino]

Do you really think the Holy Spirit – the Spirit of Truth – would tell the Apostles and their disciples that baptism is a sign of regeneration, of being born again, and tell William Rogers and friends centuries later that baptism is merely symbolic?

uh uh.

Jim Dandy

Of course not.All I said was that i think that if people prayed for the HS he may answer their prayer.(of course depending on what that prayer was)

 

[nina13_p]

I grew up Southern Baptist and went to Sunday School, preaching, Sun evening service and Weds night Girls’ in Action (GA’s) and later on, choir practice. One thing I am grateful for is my grounding in scripture. We didn’t walk into church without our own Bible. We learned verses and had contests and games based on scripture memorization and knowing the “Bible stories”. We rode the church bus through our neighborhood and handed out fliers and invited all the kids that were outside playing to come to Vacation Bible School… we had skate nights and cookouts and “lock ins”… I learned alot about Jesus. That church also kept me out of alot of trouble in my adolescent and teen years. My peers were good kids. For that, I am grateful.

Now, I can put many of those scriptures in context and when my daddy says something to me like “Catholics rewrote the Bible”, I can actually have a very good dialog with him (for as long as he’ll listen).

 

[Philena]

I’d really be interested to know the denom of Baptists you are ‘evangelizing’? How did you get started? With some Baptists, “Hello, I’m Catholic,” could get you stoned (figuratively speaking).

Do your classmates know where we got the Bible? (Don’t mean to derail the thread. I’ll start another.)

Hi Jim,
The Baptists I meet with are members of the Converge denomination. As far as I can see, this is a little more liberal than the SBC. We don’t have a large SBC presence up here in the Pacific NW but there are several Converge churches around.

When they ask me what church I attend, I just smile and say St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church. There is a moment of silence, then a “ooohhhhh”. I did meet with the pastor and tell him that I am not planning to convert to be a Baptist, but that I would respect his beliefs and was not meaning to be confrontational. It’s his house, after all.

There are definitely agreements between Catholic and Baptist beliefs, but the disagreements surely do outweigh the commonalities.

I do love these people, though. They are truly living the Gospel and love helping others.

They have helped me many times in the past year. I’m a single parent of three, and have a terminal form of cancer that I’ve been fighting for a few years and they have stepped up and helped me and my children in our needs.

 

[PiousTemplar]

Don’t risk it. Although a lot of them don’t have much issue with the Church, many of them also dislike/ sometimes hate the Church. Unless you know them personally and know they are not anti-catholic, don’t risk it. That is my advice.

 

[Jim_Dandy]

Philena, Thank you for your reply. I’m so sorry about your medical situation. How can I help you?

Protestants have the advantage of small groups who know each other well. Catholic parishes number in the thousands. There are Bible study groups and many others at my parish but that is not always the case. All parishes have St. Vincent de Paul societies and usually a women’s sodality. It is in the service groups and the third orders that deep friendships are formed.

I’ve never heard of the Converge denomination. I did a little research. Here’s what I found about its origin: QUOTE

The district goes back to a small group of Swedish Baptist immigrants in Rock Island, Illinois, which then spread to other cities along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as the still-fledgling city of Chicago. The churches soon organized into a conference—which in those days literally meant an annual conference for the purpose of providing training to the pastors, who did not have the advantage of a seminary education.

As the number of churches grew, the organization was divided into regional districts. The denomination which resulted became known as the Swedish Baptist Conference, reaching out to Swedish immigrants. Most of its churches conducted services in Swedish for many years. By World War II, the predominance of Swedish heritage remained, but English was standard. In 1945, the denomination changed its name to the present-day Baptist General Conference.

The MidAmerica Baptist Conference, which descends directly from the Illinois Conference, can make the claim as the oldest of BGC’s 13 districts, since the first church consisted of a handful of believers in Rock Island, Illinois.

END QUOTE

It’s American-made, as many denominations are, but it doesn’t give the date. It was formerly called Baptist General Conference.

There are many, many, MANY different kinds of Baptists, with conflicting and competing doctrines.

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Let me know what I can do to help. Please p.m. me.