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Lifeway also provides church business services. While Lifeway is a non-profit and part of the Southern Baptist Convention, it receives no church funding through the SBC's cooperative program [3] Instead, Lifeway is self-funded through the sales of its products. Lifeway operated World Changers until it was shut down in 2020 because of the ...
When the SBC Executive Committee approves a church’s ouster, that church can appeal the decision before the full convention at the SBC annual meeting. Freedom Church appealed its ouster at the ...
LifeWay Research, the Church-affiliated publishing company who authored the annual population study on the Church suggested in their report that much of this decline was due to people who had left the church years ago being removed from membership rolls, a reflection of better record-keeping. [40]
The SBC Executive Committee manages denomination business outside the two-day SBC annual meeting. The committee is comprised of about 20 staff and an 86-member board of elected representatives.
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention heads the convention and is elected at the annual meeting. The president's duties include presiding over the annual meeting; appointing members to SBC committees; serving as an ex officio member of the board of SBC entities including the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, and Lifeway Christian Resources; and ...
The Southern Baptist Convention faces yet another crisis of identity at its upcoming annual meeting. Anticipation ahead of the 2022 and 2023 SBC annual meetings was one of existential angst ...
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 ...
Baptist Press is a ministry assignment of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Baptist Press is responsible for providing regular news releases about Southern Baptists, serving as the convention's press representative, and coordinating news operations for annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention.