Baptist Christianity

Baptist Christianity is a diverse Protestant family historically associated with believer's baptism, gathered congregations, and local church responsibility.

It emerged in seventeenth-century English Separatist settings and has developed into many independent and cooperative bodies worldwide.

Many Baptists emphasise Baptism upon profession of faith, congregational polity, Scripture, religious liberty, evangelism, and missions. General and Particular Baptist histories, and many later movements, show considerable diversity.

Worship typically centres on preaching, congregational prayer and song, believer's Baptism, and the Lord's Supper; forms range from liturgical to informal.

Congregations are generally self-governing and may cooperate through associations, conventions, unions, or networks.