A Short History of the
London Baptist Association
On 10 November 1865 at the age of 31, with his two ministerial friends
Charles Brock and William Landels, Charles Haddon Spurgeon ("the Prince
of Preachers") established the London Baptist Association at the
Metropolitan Tabernacle.
The primary purpose for establishing the LBA was mission - as well as
fellowship amongst Baptists. The coming together as an Association was for
the sharing and promoting of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. The aim
of the LBA was to plant one new Baptist church per year in the Capital or
suburbs. In fact in the first 11 years of the LBA, 62 new churches were
founded, 53 of these as a direct result of help from Spurgeon's students
at his College.
In 1907 the LBA had grown to 199 churches with a membership of over
57,000! By 1997 the LBA had grown to 285 churches but its membership had
declined by 58% to just over 24,000.
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