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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 ]
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 ...
The Doctrinal Statement of the North American Baptist Association (1950) Baptist Faith and Message, Southern Baptist Convention (1964) Baptist Affirmation of Faith, Strict Baptist Assembly (1966) Romanian Baptist Confession (1974) The Statement of Beliefs of the North American Baptist Conference (1982) Baptist Faith and Message, Southern ...
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]
The Texas Baptists are theologically moderate, [24] and the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message has been adopted as a standard statement of faith. [25] Some affiliated churches use the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message, and other statements of faith; however, neither of the two are required for full inclusion with the Texas Baptists.
Chapman was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on November 21, 1940. He graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi (1963) and earned the Master of Divinity (1968) and Doctor of Ministry (1975) degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.