Temple Memorial Baptist Church: Humble Origin of the First Baptist Church
Many churches call themselves the first Southern Baptist church. Now we explore the origin of the first Baptist church. Many historians and theologians claim that Baptists have existed outside and separated from the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations. Baptist churches mainly existed in England, especially in Europe. The belief system was transmitted in the New World. The very first Baptist congregations in America were set up in the seventeenth century. From the very beginning, here comes the denomination membership in the U.S, which is assessed to be about 16 million people. Baptist churches like Temple Memorial Baptist Church continue to grow in America for the next 200 years, at the time of civil war era, there was a schism amongst the fellowship. In 1845, The Baptist congregation get spilled over the issue of slavery. The Baptist from the southern states presented slave holding and the Northern Baptists tried to save slaveholders. Now the Southern B...