Capitol Hill Baptist Church
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Capitol Hill Baptist Church is a Baptist
church located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
, a few blocks from the United States Capitol
. Mark Dever
serves as the senior pastor of the church. Capitol Hill Baptist is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
church located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, a few blocks from the United States Capitol
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress, the legislature of the federal government of the United States. Located in Washington, D.C., it sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall...
. Mark Dever
Mark Dever
Mark E. Dever has been the senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. since 1994, and is the president of 9Marks , a Christian ministry he co-founded "in an effort to build biblically faithful churches in America."...
serves as the senior pastor of the church. Capitol Hill Baptist is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.