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Understanding Baptist and Related Denominations

This quiz tests your knowledge of Baptist and related denominations, their beliefs, and historical contexts.

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1 ________ Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

2 Anglican Church of Canada ________ Polish National Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church

3 The Southern Baptist Convention formed in 1845, founded on the premise that the ________ sanctions slavery and that it is acceptable for Christians to own slaves.

4 Ray[24][25] This view was also held by English Baptist preacher, ________[26] as well as Jesse Mercer, the namesake of Mercer University.

5 Beliefs among Baptists regarding the "end times" include ________, dispensationalism, and historic premillennialism, with views such as postmillennialism and preterism receiving some support.

6 ________ Canadian Mennonite Brethren Churches Canadian Yearly Meeting (Quakers) Mennonite Church Canada

7 ________ African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Free Methodist Church United Methodist Church

8 Assemblies of God  • G.Bri Ire ________ • site Elim Pentecostal Church • site Foursquare Gospel Church  • site Worldwide Church of God • site

9 British Old Catholic Church  • site Old Catholic Church in Europe  • site ________  • site Old Catholic Church of Great Britain  • site Traditional Catholic Orthodox Church  • site United Ecumenical Catholic Church  • site

10 Brethren in Christ • site Churches of Christ • site Fellowship of Ind. Evangelical Churches • site Latter-day Saints • site Quakers/ ________ • site Quakers/ Ireland Yearly Meeting • site

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities.
  • American singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell's father is a Baptist pastor, and Cockrell is the only child amongst three sons not to also become a pastor.
  • The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism.
  • legend says a quart of Bourbon whiskey rests under each of the six columns on the front of Giddings Hall (pictured) at Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains.
  • the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964.
  • the first permanent Baptist church in the history of Baptists in Alabama was originally named West Fork of Flint River Church.
  • the community of West Union, Oregon, has the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains.
  • Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric.
  • Burgess Hill, Hadlow Down, Hastings, Newick, Pell Green, Rye, Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use.
  • Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB.
  • Baptist clergyman W. Winfred Moore was first director of the Baylor University Center of Ministry Effectiveness, designed to prevent burnout among pastors.
  • Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church.
  • First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, the first African-American Baptist congregation in the United States, had only black pastors until 1832.
  • Grady Nutt, known as "The Prime Minister of Humor" for his humorous sketches of Protestant culture in the Southern United States, was a licensed Baptist minister at age thirteen.
  • Francis Augustus Cox, who started preaching in his teens, was a Baptist minister in Hackney for 42 years.
  • black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination.
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