Ordinances
Remembering practices ordered by the Lord to be observed until His return
What is Baptism, Lord's Supper, and Proclamation?
Authority in all matters of Baptist life
What is Scripture?
All believers everywhere
What is the universal or catholic church?
The belief that the Gospel should not be forced or coerced, but each person is to choose for self
What is freedom of conscience?
The first black baptist denomination
What is the National Baptist Convention?
A sign of fellowship with crucified and risen Christ, delayed until a personal, conscience confession of faith is made and then by going under water as opposed to sprinkling
What is believer's baptism by full immersion?
The focus on a person's personal salvation and relationship with Christ
What is Christian experience?
Community of people who put trust in God, confess Christ as Lord and Savior under leadership which is under Christ and able to function with autonomy and independence and make its own decisions
What is the local church?
Bible is central in life to individuals and church. Christians are free and obligated to study and obey Scripture
What is bible freedom?
Conflict present throughout history of black baptist church
What is the tension between social uplift and personal piety also named social success and spiritual salvation?
Event by which God's word judges and reconciles for proclaimer and listener
What is preaching?
Belief that each person can communicate and be in relationship with God without an intermediary
What is priesthood of all believers?
Ways that local churches participate and are held accountable to the universal church
What is associations, union, and conventions?
The inalienable right and responsibility of every person to deal with God without creed, intervention of civil government, or interference of clergy
What is soul freedom?
North Carolina's State Convention of the National Baptist Convention
What is the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina?
A sign of Christ's body
What is bread?
Mutual accountability with other believers in community
What is shared discipleship?
Two church offices and two ordinances
What is pastors and deacons and baptism and the Lord's supper?
Freedom to determine membership and leadership, to ordain, to order worship and work, to participate in the larger body of Christ
What is church freedom?
The 7 C's approach to baptist identity
What is 1) constructed, 2) contested, 3) convictional, 4) characterized, 5) communal, 6) contextual, and 7) complex?
A sign of the new covenant in Christ's blood
What is wine/cup?
Living a holy, Christ-like life based on a pure desire to be with God
What is worship?
Requirement for membership
What is to experience true conversion, be a true believer, committed to Christ?
Freedom of religion, freedom for religion, freedom from religion
What is religious freedom?
Name a contributor to black Baptist history or thought
What is E.C. Morris, E. V. Hill, Jessie Jackson, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nannie Burroughs? (Naming any of these is a correct answer.)