Free Will Baptist doctrine teaches that God desires salvation for all and sent Jesus to die for everyone. Still, Free Will Baptists believe God has given man the freedom of choice to accept or reject Christ's sacrifice. Faith is the condition for salvation; hence, Free Will Baptists hold to conditional security.

Baptist General Conference, conservative Baptist denomination that was organized in 1879 as the Swedish Baptist General Conference of America; the present name was adopted in 1945. It developed from the work of Gustaf Palmquist, a Swedish immigrant schoolteacher and lay preacher who became a Baptist in 1852.

A Cautious Approach to Open Communion Free Will Baptists believe there are prerequisites to the Lord's Table and that it is the proper duty of the church to forbid those who do not meet the prerequisites. Several examples from 1 Corinthians demonstrate when the church may forbid someone from the Lord's Table.

The Free Will Baptists are an Arminian Baptist denomination with origins in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Followers of the doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius, they reject the Calvinist belief in absolute predestination, maintaining instead that salvation is open to all.