What can I expect from a Baptist Service

[mark_a]

So am I correct that you know of no public figure, such as an SBC pastor, or local SBC church that attempts to justify slavery?

Yes. Only personal aquaintances, coworkers including management, childhood friends, their extended families, some neighbors, etc.

And that position is no longer held.

I’m glad they have for now settled in on the 2000 year old Catholic position, but that’s a pretty big “oops”, don’t you think? Who knows when they’ll switch back?

 

[graceandglory]

some sunday why don’t you sit up towards the front and simply watch the congregation receive communion. It might really be a good lesson for you. See if you see any signs of repentance, conversion, beleif in the real presence, or even basic respect. You just might find a communion wafer on the floor after mass is over.

Lisahiku,
I tell you it is the same. The altar call was copied from the Catholic Church. I was an evangelical youth leader and married to the pastor’s son for 20 yrs, so I can tell you all about the lack of sincere repentance at protestant altar calls. There is no way we can judge a person’s heart by their appearance. Just because someone is moved by good worship music does not mean that they have made a conversion.

And yes, I do sit close to the front at Mass often, since I am now a converted Catholic and have to take my students to mass every week. I can’t help but be blessed watching people who are converted receiving Jesus in the Eucharist. I see people bowing in reverence, crying tears of joy and repentance, and awe, as people approach the altar. I have yet to see a “wafer” on the floor. That is what the patens are for.

Now I will be honest, I went 20 years without even KNOWING a Catholic, so I used to believe the same exact thing you do about Catholics.

 

[graceandglory]

I have been to several protestant and ONE pentecostal service. I took communion and had no qualms about it.

That only makes you a disrespectful person. If the family has rules and you have no qualms about breaking them, you aren’t even a good guest.

 

[CopticChristian]

I know there are racists in South Carolina. What I don’t know of is any Southern Baptist today who says slavery is justified because its in the Bible. Please tell me one Southern Baptist who is saying this today? I imagine it could be possible, but I doubt they would have any credibility whatsoever with anyone else in the denomination. However, you said “tons their descendants are still pretty emphatic” so you shouldn’t have problems giving me some names.

Truth for the SBC is contained in the Word of God. A resolution from the Southern Baptist Convention is just that, a resolution from a group of men and women. It is the responsibility of the messengers to Convention to apply the principles from the Word of God to all that they do. The resolution from the 1970s was too ambiguous and broad in its support for legal exceptions to abortion. It has since been corrected.

I feel your pain and concern for picking on anyone. The reality is that everywhere in the world there is racism. Racism is a sin and the tragedy is that you can find any ethnic group slurring other ethnic groups. This does not belong to the Baptists, Protestants or Catholics. It is everywhere. Forgive me and anyone that may cause you to believe that anyone group proposes this and believes it. The tragedy is that in this country a war was fought, Civil Rights legislation was brought and still there are people that don’t get the message. Religion is not responsible for this sin. It is the remedy and I would pray that everyone would pray for this sin to be resolved and to blame the one responsible for the sin and those that are led by the lie.

This lie, this sin belongs to humanity. For by one mans disobedience sin entered the world and were made sinners and by one Mans obedience we were made righteous. Those that sin preclude their inheritance through one man and continue to sin no matter what stripe of belief they have.

Do I hear an Amen???

 

[graceandglory]

They CAN take communion without pain of sin because as the poster posted, Baptists have open communion.
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Baptists have “open communion” to all those who are repentent and are believing Christians according to the baptist definition.
Most baptists believe Catholics are not Christian; so we wouldn’t be permitted to receive at their church until we denounced our Catholic faith. I know this first hand from my own conversion experience.