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The Baptist Family
Individual Church Member
For Baptists, Christian faith begins with a personal commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. This personal commitment, dramatised in a service of believer's baptism, works itself out in a life of service to God. Currently there are some 150,000 members of Baptist churches associated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
Local Baptist Churches
With their emphasis on the grass roots, local churches form the front-line of Baptist mission. Around 2,150 churches belong to the Baptist Union of Great Britain, each of them self-funding and the majority of them financially independent.
Regional Associations
Baptist churches have always linked together in regional associations to support one another in their task of reaching out with the Good News of Jesus. Associations today provide a vital link between the churches and the Baptist Union.
Fellowship of British Baptists
The Fellowship brings together all those Baptist churches in the British Isles, in membership with the Baptist Union of Scotland, the Baptist Union of Wales and the Baptist Union of Great Britain. The Fellowship also includes the BMS World Mission which relates to all three Unions.
The Worldwide Family
The Baptist vision of the church is not constrained by national borders. Baptists see themselves as part of the World Church with a mission, through the gospel, to bring people everywhere into God's family. Baptists live and work in every corner of the globe and various regional associations exist to help them in their mission. The Baptist Union of Great Britain is one of the founder members of the European Baptist Federation (1948) and the Baptist World Alliance (1905) which represents nearly 150,000 churches and more than 40 million members.
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