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The Southern Baptist Convention ( SBC ), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists ( GCB ), is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world's largest Baptist organization and the largest Protestant and second-largest Christian body in the United States. [1] [2] The SBC is a cooperation of fully autonomous, independent ...
Beginning in 1979, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) experienced an intense struggle for control of the organization. Its initiators called it the conservative resurgence [1] while its detractors labeled it the fundamentalist takeover. [2] It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by ...
The Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) is the statement of faith of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It summarizes key Southern Baptist thought in the areas of the Bible and its authority, the nature of God as expressed by the Trinity, the spiritual condition of man, God's plan of grace and salvation, the purpose of the local church, ordinances, evangelism, Christian education, interaction ...
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, which manages denomination business outside the annual meeting, met Monday morning. The executive committee is comprised of 30 staff and an 86 ...
The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual census reported 241,000 fewer members and 292 fewer churches in 2023, another yearly drop for the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
First Baptist Dallas is a Baptist megachurch located in Dallas ,Texas established since 1868. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The Downtown Dallas Church is historically considered influential as a denominational leader among Baptist and Protestant Churches in the United States because of its community legacy ...
The last thing Southern Baptists want is the government telling folks what to believe." Terry Mattingly is Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture at Saint Constantine College in Houston.
Baptists believe that faith is a matter between God and the individual (religious freedom). To them it means the advocacy of absolute liberty of conscience. Insistence on immersion believer's baptism as the only mode of baptism. Baptists do not believe that baptism is necessary for salvation.