{"id":111067,"date":"2026-09-30T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=111067"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:52:35","slug":"baptist-vs-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/baptist-vs-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u6d78\u4fe1\u4f1a\u4e0e\u57fa\u7763\u5f92\uff1a\u6d78\u4fe1\u4f1a\u662f\u57fa\u7763\u5f92\uff0c\u5c5e\u4e8e\u65b0\u6559\u5927\u5bb6\u5ead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes, Baptists are Christians. Baptist is one family of Protestant churches, as Lutheran and Methodist are. A Baptist church baptizes only people who profess faith in Christ, by immersion, and each congregation governs itself. When people set Baptist beside plain Christian, they usually mean a nondenominational church, and many of those teach much the same. The name Christian is older than every one of these churches. It began in a single city: &quot;in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baptists are Christians: one Protestant family that baptizes believers by immersion and lets each church govern itself. How they differ from nondenominational churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[219],"class_list":["post-111067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-denominations-compared"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11392,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/protestant-vs-evangelical-whats-the-difference\/","url_meta":{"origin":111067,"position":0},"title":"Evangelical vs Protestant: Evangelicals Are One Kind of Protestant","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"9 10 \u6708, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Evangelicals are Protestants, but not all Protestants are evangelical. 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