Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have no continuing city here, but we seek one to come.
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Many thousands of people claim to be Baptists. They have invented churches, called them "Baptist" churches, joined those churches, allowed themselves to be baptized in water by their minister, and then believe that doing all those things qualifies them to be called "Baptist". This is obviously not true. But who, then, really is a Baptist? In other words, whom does God consider to be a Baptist? In 1973, at Brother Delbert Maupin's New Covenant Mission in Louisville, Preacher Clark revealed who it is that qualifies to bear the name of "Baptist".
In his sermon that day, Preacher Clark said, "A Baptist is not somebody who has been baptized; it's somebody who does the baptizing. The Bible doesn't call the followers of John the Baptist, "Baptist people". It calls John himself the 'Baptist', or "John the Baptizer". In the Bible, we learn that Peter was a Baptist; Paul was a Baptist; Jesus was a Baptist; and John was a Baptist. John was a baptizer with water, and Jesus was a baptizer with spirit. And if you'll pay the price and get anointed by God, you'll be a Baptist." Paul and Peter were anointed by God to baptize people with the holy Ghost; that is what made them baptists, along with Jesus.
Unless God anoints you to baptize people, you cannot be a Baptist. You can say that you are, and others can tell you that you are a Baptist, but only what God says is true. And with Him, the word "baptist" means "baptizer"; nothing more and nothing less.