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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 ...
1923 Articles of Faith Put Forth by the Baptist Bible Union (defunct fundamentalist group within ABC) 1925 Baptist Faith and Message - revised in 1963, 1998 and 2000; 1935 Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists; 1985 Doctrinal Statement of the Brazilian Baptists, 1985, Brazilian Baptist Convention.
Herschel H. Hobbs (1907-1995) was a Southern Baptist clergyman who served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1961 to 1963. He was born in Talladega Springs , Alabama. [ 1 ] David Dockery described him as "one of the most influential and shaping leaders in Southern Baptist life in the twentieth century". [ 2 ]
In 1963, the SBC adopted the first revision of the Baptist Faith and Message, amending it to include confessional positions more conservative than contained in the original. However, it was not without its critics: one of the architects of the conservative resurgence described it as "having been infected with neo-orthodox theology." [13]
As it continued to grow, the SBTC adopted the Southern Baptist Convention's 2000 Baptist Faith and Message as its own statement of faith. The SBTC's purpose, according to its mission statement, is to "facilitate, extend, and enlarge the Great Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist churches and associations of Texas."
His book Baptist Church Perpetuity explained his theory that various Christian movements of the past led inevitably to the formation of the Baptist Church. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Another book, Baptizo-Dip Only , expressed his disagreement with Dr. Whitsett's assertions about the baptismal rites of English Baptists.
The Confession was written by English Particular Baptists, who held to a Calvinistic analysis to give a formal scriptural explanation of their Christian faith from a Baptist perspective. One of the preachers active in creating Confession of Faith, Benjamin Keach, is often credited with the writing of the Baptist Catechism commonly known as ...
He served as the president of Mercer University, a Baptist university in Macon, Georgia, from 1893 to 1896. [5] Gambrell became the editor of the Baptist Standard in 1910. [3] He was the chair of Christian Ethics and Ecclesiology at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, from 1912 to 1914. [1] [3]