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The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
William Bullein Johnson (June 13, 1782 – October 2, 1862) was an American Baptist minister, one of the founders of the South Carolina State Baptist Convention in 1821, and later was the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851. [1]
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 ...
Thousands of small Southern Baptist churches dotted the landscape throughout the United States in the mid-19th century. Recognizing that many churches working together in missions could accomplish more than any one, the Board of Foreign Missions was established on May 10, 1845 (the same date the Southern Baptist Convention was formed) and ...
Southern Baptist Convention delegates, known as messengers, gather on Tuesday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans for the denomination's 2023 annual meeting.
Whole Gospel Whole World: The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention 1845–1995. 1994 The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism ( ISBN 0-8028-0886-7 ), 3rd edition, 1996
In 2023, Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Linda Smith, at the time, said her church didn't expect to appeal.
The convention also affirmed the ouster of Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Both churches had appealed the February decision by the SBC's Executive Committee to remove them for ...