What happens during a traditional baptist church service?

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Also, what is it called at the point when someone comes around with a little basket and you are supposed to put money in?

Answer 1

There really is no such thing as "traditional" Baptist anymore. I attend a Baptist church, and here's how our services usually go:
We start at 10:45 AM, or pretty close to it. We sing a couple songs, then greet each other, then sing a couple more songs, the pastor says a prayer, and his sermon begins. It usually lasts about 20-30 minutes (his sermon). Afterwards, we do a couple more songs, then a congregrational prayer. After that, we take tithes and offerings (after the offering has been taken we sing the Doxology ("Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below"), after which we do announcements. Then the pastor says one final prayer in closing, and we're done. Our services are usually about two hours long.

Oh, and there's nothing about hating people or how evil people are in our services. As a matter of fact, in the five months or so that I've been attending, hell has only been mentioned once in a sermon, and only in passing.
My pastor is happily married (if he committed adultery, he'd get prison time if the military found out), and our money goes to pay the bills, pay our taxes (we're not tax exempt in Germany), and to missionaries around the world.

Answer 2

Joel V summed it up pretty good. During my earlier days as a Christian, I was a Baptist before converting to Catholicism. Some of the people have given some unjust answers on here. People must keep in mind that there are several different kinds of Baptists Churches. There are American (a very liberal branch), Missionary, Southern, and Primative (a very fundamental branch and very charismatic). I must say that Baptists are too often misjudged and lumped into a single category (usually fundamentalism), which is not nearly always the case. What Joel V described is the typical service you would find among the Missionary or Southern Baptist settings.

Answer 3

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What happens during a traditional baptist church service?
Also, what is it called at the point when someone comes around with a little basket and you are supposed to put money in?

Answer 4

That is the offering. It is when members of the church give their tithes and offerings, but we also have the ability to give online at my church.

Our church starts with music. We sing 2 songs. The pastor comes out and says good morning and talks for a moment, then we pray. Then the orchestra plays while the offering is taken. Once that is done we sing 2 songs together, then the chior usually sings a song while we listen. Then our pastor comes out and asks us to stand while he reads the scripture he will be teaching from. Then we pray about the lesson we are about to hear. Then we are seated and he teaches us something about a particular scripture or topic. When he is done he issues an invitation to those who have need to pray at the alter, those who have not been saved and are ready or those who wish to join the church to be to come forward and speak to one of our pastors, we sing a song during this time to give people time to come up without having them feel like we are all staring. Then there is any announcements or introductions of new members, then we all join hands and say a final prayer.

In the evening service we begin with the ordinance of baptism, then it is pretty much the same as a morning service except there is no orchestra just piano and drum (sometimes guitar) and sometimes no chior song. Once per quarter in the evening service we take the Lords Supper.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions feel free to email.

Answer 5

There is singing, a sermon by the preacher who condemns just about everything other than activities of the church, then the invitation, where members are so moved by the sermon that they come forward, confess their sins and accept Christ as their personal savior. Following this baskets are passed around in order to collect "offerings" of money to support the church, the pastor and other activities. You may just see some of those same holy baptists in the local bar or adult theater during the week. However, in this case both parties, out of custom, pretend they don't recognize each other.

Answer 6

Baptists are alright. They preach the truth, that we are saved by repenting and receiving Christ as our Lord and Savior. All the churches collect money. Why single them out?

Answer 7

We have no traditiona service. God shows up alot and God takes over the service and people start praising him and sinners get saved. Not all the time is that basket is passed around. But when it is I give to God freely. No one is forced to.

Answer 8

They talk about who they are currently hating, how evil people are, and how they can hate more people in the future.
Then, they collect a bunch of money during what's called the "fleecing of the flock", and most ministers seem to use it to buy hookers.
That's about it.