Seventh Day Baptists

Seventh Day Baptists are Baptists who observe the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as a holy day to God. They adopt a Baptist covenant theology, based on the concept of regenerated society, conscious baptism of believers by immersion, congregational government and the scriptural basis of opinion and practice. They profess a statement of faith instituted on fundamental precepts of belief. Seventh Day Baptists rest on Saturday as a sign of obedience in a covenant relationship with God and not as a condition of salvation.

There are countless accounts in the history of Christians who kept the seventh day of the week as a day of rest and worship to God as instituted by God in the creation of the world, affirmed as a fourth commandment and reaffirmed in the teaching and example of Jesus and the Apostles. In contrast to this, it is known that most Christians and churches in history have chosen to rest on Sunday instead of Saturday. However, there are reports of Sabbath keeping in different parts of the world, including an entire nation that rested on the Saturday. The first Christians who adopted Baptist doctrine and kept the seventh day dates back to the middle of the 17th century in England.

They are made up of churches all over the world, with over 520 churches and approximately 45,000 members, having constant interaction among themselves through conferences in each country and through the Seventh Day Baptist World Federation. In general, federations maintains good relations with other Baptist churches and Protestant denominations as well as establishing links with other Christian institutions and unions worldwide.