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I attended a SBC church when I lived in KY. I had been baptised by immersion as an adult believer. They would not accept us as members until we were "scripturally baptised as a Baptist." I kid you not. Along with the Baptist baptism, we were told that we would forever and always be Southern Baptists, we could never leave that particular church unless we moved outside a specific geographical distance (I forget what that was) and that, in the event of a move outside the prescribed geographical distance, we were required to "join ourselves with a SBC church by transfer within 6 weeks time."

Needless to say, we didn't join that church. It was many years before I learned that this was not the settled practice of SBC churches. We had been told that it was.