| |
| | BWA Heritage & Identity Commission - previous General Council reports and news pages |
 | | Baptists Together in Christ is a scholarly history of the BWA covering 1905 to 2005, the voluntary association national Baptist unions and conventions around the world, embracing over 100 million people. |
 | | Even now, with more well over 200 unions or conventions in membership, and others joining all the time, as a voluntary movement, the BWA still does not embrace all Baptists - the most notable group now not in membership is the large Southern Baptist Convention which withdrew in the 100th year over ideological differences. |
 | | As a denomination made up of independent churches and unions, and without a central hierarchy, the issue of interest to scholars and church people is whether such a global organisation was proper, necessary, or important, and even granted a positive answer, whether it could in fact be achieved. |
| www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org /newsinf.htm (1628 words) |
|