Who we are?
We are evangelical or Protestant Christians (that's how we are known historically) that we believe in Gospel as base of the Christianity. From the historical perspective we are linked to the movement of the Protestant Reform of the S.XVI.
Our church is a Baptist community and belongs to the F.I.E.I.D.E. (Federation
of Evangelical Churches Independent of Spain).
Our congregation has an approximate membership of 90 members (neither counts
the children nor young people nor adults who are not baptised, since the
baptism is an indispensable requirement to take a part as member, such and
as Jesus Christ teaches us).
What is the origin of the Baptist Churches?
The Baptist Churches go back to the
16th century, so-called the Protestant reform, specifically
to the movement Anabaptist. The Baptist name was adopted in England in the
17th century because they were practising the baptism by immersion, and this
only the people who before gave a profession of personal faith in Christ as
his Saviour.
But the Baptist history did not begin then; Actually, the mentioned churches were the historical successors of those Christian churches who from time apostolic have come defending the use of the Holy Bible as the only rule of faith and practice in the Christian life.
The most important Baptist principles are: The separation of Church - State, the way of congregational government, the promotion of the right of religious freedom and the recognition of the Bible as the only rule of faith and practice.
Those churches, which are Biblical in their doctrine, suffered the persecution throughout the centuries since they did not conform to the majority church (so-called Roman Church).
But God is faithful and always there
have been in the land believers ready to risk their own lives for Biblical
principles before they were kneeling to the traditions of the men.
When the FIEIDE appears?
FIEIDE was founded in 1957 as a federation
of independent Churches, constituted especially by Baptist Churches. The different
local Churches have a juridical own personality and act with autonomy. At
the same time, they rely mutually and fraternally to carry out activities
and projects. The FIEIDE is a member of the International Federation of Free
Churches.
