What is a Baptist Church?

So, what is a Baptist church? How is it different from any other denomination? We get asked these questions a lot! The Baptist Union Website says it best:

“For Baptists the concept of a family is important. The church is not so much a particular place or building, but rather a family of believers, committed to Christ, to one another and to the service of God in the world.”

In this Baptist family everybody is equal, for everybody has a part to play in the service of God. There is no hierarchy of bishops or priests exercising authority over their members. Equality of status, however, does not mean that all have the same role.

Baptists are grass-roots people, with a particular emphasis on the local church. These local churches are self-governing and self-supporting, ranging in size from twenty or so members to many hundreds.

Each local Baptist church appoints its own leaders - or ministers - to have particular responsibility for preaching, teaching and pastoral care.

Working alongside ministers are deacons (at The Tab, we like to call them ‘leaders.’) Leaders are voted by the church membership and are help to account by the membership.

View our current leadership here