What is a Reformed Baptist?
Here at First Baptist Church, we are a Reformed Baptist congregation that holds to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith . We thought it would be helpful for you to see and read this excellent article from Tom Hicks, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Clinton, Louisiana . In it, he lays out what Reformed Baptists believe, where those convictions come from, and why we believe they faithfully reflect the teaching of Scripture. Tom Hicks What is it that makes a “Reformed Baptist” distinct from other kinds of Baptists and Reformed folks? Reformed Baptists grew out of the English Reformation, emerging from Independent paedobaptist churches in the 1640’s for some very specific theological reasons, and they held to a particular kind of theology. Here are some of the theological iden...