Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.
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This was the young, telegenic, and popular Robby Gallaty of Brainerd Baptist (mega-)Church in Tennessee.
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Of course, for the Baptist Convention, this was a matter of theology, not rationality.
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She spends a lot of time at her Baptist church—Wednesday night Bible study and Sunday services.
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As for Deborah, there was certainly a puritanical strain in society, but she was a Baptist.
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God had placed him there, like another John the Baptist, to announce penance to the world.
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The special circumstances attending the birth and naming of the Baptist probably supplied the chief factor in its triumph.
The Romance of Names|Ernest Weekley
The Baptist is twisting round, to display the foreshortening which Pordenone particularly affects.
The Venetian School of Painting|Evelyn March Phillipps
Two days before the feast of St. John the Baptist, the two made a special tour through the parish for certain recruits.
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A young man, who had never paid his bill, put her into two-inch ribbon from the Baptist preacher's shop.
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British Dictionary definitions for Baptist
Baptist
/ (ˈbæptɪst) /
noun
a member of any of various Christian sects that affirm the necessity of baptism (usually of adults and by immersion) following a personal profession of the Christian faith
the Baptist See John the Baptist
adjective
denoting, relating to, or characteristic of any Christian sect that affirms the necessity of baptism following a personal profession of the Christian faith