regular baptist

regular baptist
noun
Usage: usually capitalized R&B
1. : a member of a moderately Calvinistic Baptist sect that is found chiefly in the southern U.S., represents the original English Baptists before the division into Particular and General Baptists, and observes close communion and foot washing
2. : a Baptist who belongs to the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches formed in 1932 by churches which had withdrawn from the Northern Baptist Convention

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