Transcript Baptist History Lesson 25 - Grace Reformed Baptist Church

Baptist History
Lesson 25
“Go ye into all the world”
American Baptist obey the great
commission
Background for missions
To be an evangelical you must believe in missions;
Baptists were evangelical; therefore,
Baptists believed in missions
Missionary fervor changed the course of American Baptist history
becoming its’ dominating theme
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Trevor & Theresa Johnson
Three Mission Pioneers
Luther Rice
(1783-1836)
Adoniram Judson
(1788-1850)
Ann Hasseltine Judson
(1789-1826)
The Baptist Triennial Convention
Institutional precursors to the Triennial Convention
•Associations themselves
•Boston Female Missionary Society (1800) &
Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society (1802)
•American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1812)
Formation of the Triennial Convention
General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in
the United States for Foreign Missions (1814)
Luther Rice becomes the full-time agent
Early leaders of the Triennial Convention
Thomas Baldwin
(1753-1825)
Richard Furman
William B Johnson
(1755-1825)
(1782-1862)
The Work of the Triennial Convention
Foreign Missions
Home Missions
Isaac McCoy
John Mason Peck
1832 The American Baptist Home Missions Society
Education
Columbian College (1821)
Newton Seminary (1825)
William Staughton
(1770-1829)
Publishing
The Latter-Day Luminary (1822)
American Baptist Missionary Magazine
1825 General Baptist Tract Society
The Baptist Tract
American Baptist Publication and Sunday School Society (1840)
Colporters
Competing Methodologies
The Societal Method
The Convention Method
•Convention actually a denomination
•Convention provides funding
•Each ministry represented by different
board
•Triennial should have remained a
foreign missions board
Triennial Convention of 1826
The most important act of the late Convention was
the revision of its constitution, by which its exertions
were limited exclusively to missionary operations. It
is now a simply (sp) body, with one undivided object,
and that object, is the promulgation of the gospel
amongst the heathen.
Francis Wayland
(1796-1865)
Proceeding of the Baptist Convention for Missionary
Purposes (1826), p. 7
Baptist Denominational Expansion in the South, 1826-1845
•They supported Triennial but began to focus on their regional needs
•1830 Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
Thomas Meredith
(1795-1850)
Wake Forest College, 1834
The Biblical Interpreter (1830)
The Biblical Recorder (1833)