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Summary
- Baptist churches and the Assemblies of God both baptize believers by immersion and teach salvation by grace through faith in Christ.
- They part over the Spirit: the Assemblies of God teaches a baptism in the Holy Spirit after the new birth, first shown by speaking in tongues, while the Baptist Faith and Message says the Spirit baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ at regeneration.
- The Assemblies of God also teaches that “all believers have the Holy Spirit,” so neither church says a Christian who has never spoken in tongues lacks the Spirit.
- The main Baptist confessions teach that true believers never finally fall away; the Assemblies of God’s 2017 position paper teaches that salvation can be abandoned by willfully turning away from Christ.
- Brazil’s Assembleia de Deus began in Belém in 1911, when members of the First Baptist Church of Pará who accepted the Pentecostal teaching of Gunnar Vingren and Daniel Berg were put out of that church.
- It took the name Assembleia de Deus in 1918, is older than the US Assemblies of God (1914) and is not a branch of it; the 2010 census counted 12,314,410 members against 3,723,853 Baptists.
- Women may be pastors in the US Assemblies of God but not in the Southern Baptist Convention, whose messengers voted 6,028 to 2,026 in June 2026 for a constitutional amendment excluding churches with women pastors; it needs a second vote in 2027.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- The Holy Bible, King James Version: Acts 2:4; Acts 8:16–17; Acts 19:6; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 12:30; John 10:28; James 5:14; 1 Timothy 2:12.
- Southern Baptist Convention, The Baptist Faith and Message 2000, Articles II, IV, V, VI and VII (Article VI as amended June 2023).
- Convenção Batista Brasileira, Declaração Doutrinária, Quem Somos and Nossa História.
- Convenção Batista Nacional, Sobre and História.
- National Association of Free Will Baptists, What Is a Free Will Baptist?
- General Council of the Assemblies of God (USA), Statement of Fundamental Truths, articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12.
- Assemblies of God (USA), The Assurance of Salvation, position paper adopted by the General Presbytery, August 2017.
- AG News, General Presbytery Adopts Position Paper on Baptism in the Holy Spirit, 10 August 1999.
- Assemblies of God (USA), History and Our Local Structure and Form of Government.
- Assemblies of God Children’s Ministries Agency, A Woman’s Place in Ministry: Interview with Thomas Trask, 2004.
- Convenção Geral das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil, Declaração de Fé (CPAD; commission preface dated 22 November 2016), and Quem somos.
- United Pentecostal Church International, Our Beliefs.
- Eduardo Leandro Alves, “A mensagem pentecostal na alma do brasileiro”, Azusa: Revista de Estudos Pentecostais 8, no. 1 (2017): 11–32.
- Rimilla Queiroz Araújo, “Pentecostalismo em movimento: a consolidação das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil”, Azusa: Revista de Estudos Pentecostais 16, no. 2 (2025).
- IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2010, Table 137, resident population by religion.
- Cláudio José da Silva, A doutrina dos usos e costumes na Assembléia de Deus, master’s dissertation, Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2003.
- Jonatas Silva Meneses, “Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus: movimento, continuidade e mudanças”, Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões 18/19 (2013).
- Associated Press, Southern Baptists vote to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors, 10 June 2026.
- “Mulheres no ministério pastoral batista”, Reflexus (Faculdade Unida de Vitória), abstract.
- Sul 21, Marina Silva é ordenada pastora em Convenção das Assembleias de Deus do DF, 17 April 2012.
Response
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Ulrich Bretschneider
Ich hätte gern gewusst, wie stark die Autorität der Commission on Doctrinal Purity bei den AoGs ist. Von Edgar R. Lee gibt es die Aussage: “We declare unequivocally that total abstinence from alcoholic beverages is the only acceptable way of life for the Christian”.
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