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Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) was an American Baptist pastor and conservative author. He served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979–1980 and 1986–1988).
Adrian Rogers. The church's most well-known leader, Adrian Rogers, was the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist from 1972 until March 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to over 29,000. [4]
W. A. Criswell and Adrian Rogers, along with Pressler and Patterson, met with a group of pastors and laymen at a hotel near the Atlanta airport to launch the resurgence. They understood Powell's contention that electing the president of the SBC was the key to redirecting the entirety of the denomination.
Its first major victory was in 1979 when Memphis pastor Adrian Rogers, a Conservative Resurgence-backed candidate for SBC president, won the election with 51% of the vote of delegates, called ...
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Adrian Rogers (1931–2005) - Pastor, conservative, author, and Southern Baptist Convention President 1979–1980 and 1986–1988 Lee Rutland Scarborough (1870–1945) - President of the Southern Baptist Convention (1938–1940), President of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929–1932), and as the President of the Southwestern Baptist ...
F.L. “Bubba” Copeland — the mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, and a pastor at First Baptist Church Phenix City — died by apparent suicide on Friday. His death came two days after 1819 News ...
While serving in Alabama, Steve was an annual guest speaker at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, at the invitation of Pastor Adrian Rogers. After Rogers' retirement in 2005, the church voted to call Gaines as pastor. On July 10, 2005, Gaines accepted the call and preached to more than 10,000 people in two morning worship services. [5]