I really have no idea, but I do know that baptist history is rarely discussed. We tend, due to that undiscussed history, to be a very loose affiliation. As you dig back into our history the baptist tends to find that he was more liturgical than they might care to admit. I’ve only been learning about this as our current pastor has been digging it up and sharing.

For example, ever heard of the Baptist Confession of Faith? Most baptists haven’t.

This looks to be related, and an interesting read: http://www.founders.org/FJ27/article3_fr.html

Technically, SBC broke off from ABC. There was a rather ecumenical missions support group that met, but was rather loosely organized. Leadership was abolitionist, but the southern groups broke away during the Civil War era, over slavery and also to organize more efficiently. The modern ABC is actually ABCUSA, quite liberal and a member of several socialist religion organizations (WCC, NCC, etc.).

Primitive Baptists are more hard Calvinist and not very mission-minded at all, going from way back. They are left over from the earliest Baptist settlers from England, and represent the dominant Calvinist stream. There are actually serveral “free will” groups that come from a radically different tradition, and are quite Arminian. While the organizers broke off from more mainstream groups, their theology is traceable to some very old groups in England.

Thanks, Josiah and Ed. I shall look at that link, Josiah. Never hurts to finally admit a link to liturgy!

Ed, thanks for the history… that, I think, helps a lot.