Four Essential Freedoms of Being Baptists: Religious Freedom

Date: June 28, 2020 (Sunday PM)

Bible Text: Matthew 13: 24-30 | Steve Damron

Series: Four Essential Freedoms of Being Baptists

1. What is Religious Freedom?

       1. Passages to help understand religious freedom

• • Matthew 13: 24-30
  • Matthew 19: 16-20

       2. Three main principles in the Bible

• • The nature of God
  • The nature of humanity
  • The nature of faith

       3. Historic Baptists

• • John Freeman, London, Canadian Baptist pastor, 1905
  • John Smith & Thomas Helwys, England, Baptist author & martyr, 1612
  • Roger Williams, John Clark, Obadiah Holmes: 1600's
  • Isaac Backus & John Leland, 1700's

2. Meaning of Religious Freedom

       1. Three statements of religious freedom

• • We believe in religious liberty, not just religious freedom
  • We believe that religious liberty is for all, not just a select few
  • We believe in separation of church and state and not accommodation of church with state

Topics: Bible,Christian Life,God's Word,God's Working