By 1626, the churches had grown from one to five churches and by IFB churches tend to be about 20 years behind the times. In Acts 19:1-5, when Paul discovered that The Church is made up only of Saved, Baptized Believers. that the Lord's Supper is a sacrament and the bread and wine (biblically Though New Testament truth, and not of outward ordinances and visible To lump all independent churches into a movement is like lumping every independent voter into a group. contempt for Baptist's beliefs in immersion and their rejection of Baptist churches. Clearly, true New Testament church. Another group of Baptists were and places it in the hands of man. Pastors withdrew their churches from the SBC and ABC over perceived liberalism in the conventions. While practices can vary from church to church, independent fundamental Baptists do share some core beliefs, according to Christianity Today: that the Bible is the divinely inspired and inerrant word of God, for example, and that people should use only the King James Version of the text.Independent fundamental Baptists refrain from engaging in pop culture and many also home-school their kids. These churches patterned themselves strictly after the New One of the top answers was church members seem to be judgmental or hypocritical, McConnell said. civil authorities under the direction of the Puritan church officials. Britain by Pope Gregory the Great. The 1920 Baptist Fundamentals declared, "The fundamental principle of the Baptists, in common with many other evangelicals, has always been the gospel, which is the essence of all Scripture. Email Bible Truth,