Baptist

Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. Baptists emphasize a believer's baptism by full immersion, which is performed after a profession of faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. A congregational governance system gives autonomy to individual local Baptist churches, which are sometimes associated in organizations such as the Southern Baptist Convention. In the late 1990s, there were about 43 million Baptists worldwide with about 33 million in the United States.

See also

• List of Baptist Associations, Conventions and sub-groupings
• Christianity
• Christian apologetics
• Christian theology
• Christian eschatology
• Church governance
• Methodism
• Presbyterianism
• Anglicanism
• Summary of Christian eschatological differences