What is a Baptist?

 

Chris Welch's 55 years of observation.

Baptists mostly got suspended in time after the revelation of new birth John3 but before the Holy Spirit versions of the covered portions of the Tabernacle and the Second Feast and baptism in the Spirit . Because the only Baptist Churches that mostly appear on TV media DO teach the experience of being born again and the experience of being filled with the Spirit John 4 most of the world do not get to see the older more suspended form of Baptist.
In the last 500 years Luther was used to put the flag in the soil of the all sufficiency of the Divine Human Lamb who took away our sins .
Folowing the Tabernacle and Feasts through as well as Jerusalem City Gate names in Nehemiah ....we progress through the Holy Spirit version of laver or washbowl ...now a complete Baptist baptism then the Pentecostal outpouring represented in the OT picture of heavenly things by priests anointing oil.
Then since 1900s God has been restoring all the gifts and fruit of the Spirit and all of Pauls 3 lists of ministry (1 Cor12.27-28, Rom 12.6-8, Eph4.11)which a lot of Baptists still shun by virtue of their strange cessationist beliefs .....very similar in principle to Anglicans belief in the cessation of being actually born again in practice .
Baptists are really divided in that baptism in the Spirit really has made them a lot more current with God's trek across His Tabernacle .
A dispassionate review must acknowledge a wink of the eye while His Church has displayed a more Wordbased synagogue teaching base with the one teacher Jesus warned against....yet neverthless represented by the portions of Shew Bread on the Table in the Holy Place and then there's the charismatic move across the earth which is much more Spirit filled and represented by the candlestick.

But God does stop winking as we trek further across His Tabernacle pattern .
As we see in revival , in Billy Grahams big events etc .....all born again people who have received of the Divine life of Jesus at some level are all one and in unity .

The Holiest Place and the Final Feast of Tabernacles is about AT ONE MENT
of God and Man
Its about unity and community in a localty like the first church in Acts
Its about rising in unity across the earth as Ezekiel 37 says , psalm 133 and the blessing declaration of mature priest saints ps 134 and the Ephesians 6 warfare.
The acacia box living of the mercy seat is Galatians 2.20 as the 12 apostles marched from home to home doing what Luke called outstanding miracles .

So yes , broadly Baptists are still stuck in the 1700s with something of an inert knowledge of Christ and a book and a baptistry and dark grey suits all instructed by one limited teacher that they arent meant to have and just changing the name to pastor doesn't fool God one bit .
If enough get born again these teaching houses get very big in America, but decades later the churches remain as they are and dont seem to understand Jesus talk of wineskins .
He warns about putting new wine into old wineskins.

So Baptists understand a lot . They are heavily stuck in mens traditions , mans way of thinking , courses of psychological counselling from Freud and Tavistock witchcraft which they try to bend more to the Bible .
They don't really trust ' flow' and the Holy Spirit . Jesus saying ' I only do what I see the Father doing ' they would translate back into separation language ....I do as I am led by a separate Holy Spirit while I continue in self powered soul godhood of Genesis 3.