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AOL: Former First Baptist Spartanburg admin charged with embezzling over $200K of church funds

A former administrator at First Baptist Spartanburg was charged with misappropriation of church funds for personal use, according to a complaint filed in federal court Monday. David Dennis, the former ...

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Former First Baptist Spartanburg admin charged with embezzling over $200K of church funds

Baptists are a Protestant tradition of Christianity distinguished by baptizing only believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by total immersion.

Although Baptists do not constitute a single church or denominational structure, most adhere to a congregational form of church government. Some Baptists lay stress upon having no human founder, no human authority, and no human creed.

Despite these differences, Baptists are united by core principles including the authority of Scripture, religious freedom, congregational governance and church membership, the priesthood of believers, and baptism by immersion. Let's take a look at 15 things to know about Baptists and their beliefs. Photo courtesy: ©Gettyimages/Raw pixel. 1.

American Baptists, Southern Baptists and all the scores of other Baptist bodies in the U.S. and around the world grew out of a common tradition begun in the early 17 th century.

Baptists believe in the Bible as the ultimate authority, a regenerate and baptized church, the autonomy of the local church, and religious liberty for all.

As of 2014, about 15.3% of Americans identified as Baptist, making Baptists the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Roman Catholics. [1] .

Some Baptists believe that there has been an unbroken succession of Baptist churches from the days of John the Baptist and the Apostles of Jesus Christ. Others trace their origin to the Anabaptists, a 16th-century Protestant movement on the European continent.

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