Baptist ministers from the United States

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    was a minister of Ebenezer Baptist church and with Martin spent a lot of time in church. He grew up in a period in United States when african americans suffered from segregation and discrimination. In 1953, he married Coretta Scott and they had four children. Martin was inspired to fight for the civil rights with non-violence of Mahamat Ghandi. In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He died on the evening of April 4, 1968; he was shot in Memphis, Tennessee. During his life, he was a Baptist minister

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    was a Baptist Minister for a church and the respected leader of the American Civil Rights movement and was a symbol of hope for all African Americans in the United States. He lead the movement because he believed that every man is created equal and should be treated the same as the white people and wanted jobs for all African Americans. This lead to him making his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream” and he read his speech to the giant crowd and on television to the entire United States. That sparked

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    Statistics have shown that some Protestants churches, such as the Baptists, tend to have blended worship services. Thus, several churches are abandoning the traditional hymns and singing more contemporary Christian music in their worship services. Researchers in church music affirm that this is happening not only in Brazil, but it is a global tendency. The problem is that some churches can easily lose their identity if those contemporary songs are not based on a solid theology and biblical principles

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    attended the First Pentecostal Baptist Church in Jeffersonville. Eventually he was ordained as a minister in the denomination. When he started tent meetings in 1933, he planted an independent Baptist church and constructed a building, Pentacostal Tabernacle. Later he changed the name to Branham Tabernacle

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    things than you may expect. Martin Luther king as a child grew up with his father being a Baptist minister. He had his name changed as a young kid to Martin Luther. This is after the man Martin Luther who disagreed with the most powerful thing in his country, the church. Martin’s father changed it so he would know that one man can change the world. Like Young Reverend King, Malcolm’s father was a Baptist minister, but his father was later murdered by a trolley car. Later his mom went to a mental hospital

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    “I Have A Dream”, and his letter that he written from a Birmingham Jail. He is also, out of all of the most powerful leaders in history, the only leader that isn’t a president of a country that has his own national holiday that celebrates is legacy across the United States of America. Originally born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929 the second child out of an older sister and younger brother to Alberta Williams King and Michael

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    to inspire other and many different African-Americans and to change the law of different rights due to your skin color. Martin Luther King Jr. became an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and the leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He had many jobs but really focused on being an American Baptist Minister because he adopted

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    enrolled in New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, I joined Discipleship Missionary Baptist Church. I became affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and completed my Master’s in Divinity degree. I was ordained shortly after my seminary graduation in December 1997, I reported to Diego Garcia in February 1998 and successfully completed two deployments to the Persian Gulf. While deployed, I provided ministry to the Royal Air Force of Oman and the migrant workers from India who were assigned

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    (Waldschmidt-Nelson and Waldschmidt-Nelson, 2012). Dr. King was a Baptist minister who believed in the equality of all people before God, he believed that racial segregation was destructive to the souls of both white and black people. Dr. King believed that discrimination against African-Americans violated the basic principles of America ,such as equality under the law and

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    implies that anyone who choose to believe in Christ can be saved. John Calvin taught that only the predestined may be saved. The theory of the General Baptists also maintained the principle of the possibility of “falling from grace”. Its members were English refugees who had fled England to escape religious persecution. Later the Particular Baptist surfaced led by leaders under the influenced of Calvinism, they taught a ‘particular’ atonement. To define atonement the dictionary gives the meaning

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