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The earliest precursor to the SBTC was the Conservative Baptist Fellowship of Texas. Members of that fellowship joined other conservative Southern Baptists to form the Southern Baptists of Texas in 1995. This group operated within the Baptist General Convention of Texas until a new entity the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention was founded in ...
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 ...
Bryant Wright - Southern Baptist Convention President 2010–2012; Homer Edwin Young - President of the Southern Baptist Convention (1992–1994), serves as Head Pastor of Second Baptist Church Houston, is an author, and is the creator of the broadcast ministry, the Winning Walk
Lifeway Research, a division of the SBC’s publishing arm, said in its annual church profile on Tuesday there were 46,906 Southern Baptist churches and 12.9 million members in 2023, down from 13. ...
Texas: Baptist General Convention of Texas: Southern Baptists of Texas Convention: Utah: Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention: Idaho: Virginia: Baptist General Association of Virginia: Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia: West Virginia: West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists: Wyoming: Wyoming Southern Baptist Convention
The convention's latest annual census reported there were 12.9 million members, continuing a decline, and 46,906 churches in the SBC. Meanwhile, unlike the past couple years when policy positions ...
During the intense struggle for control of the Southern Baptist Convention's resources and ideological direction between moderates and conservatives, the state convention—being the largest by finances and organization—largely resisted the conservative and at-times fundamentalist course of the Southern Baptist Convention from the 1980s-1990s ...
While the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an all-out constitutional ban on women pastors Wednesday at its convention in Indianapolis, Mississippi's SBC leadership says the vote was not needed ...