Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), the largest of the Southern Baptist state conventions, did not vote in 1998 to align itself with the CBF, despite some reports to the contrary. The BGCT did allow individual churches to designate their missions dollars to a number of different missions organizations, including the SBC and CBF.
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 ...
In 2023, Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Linda Smith, at the time, said her church didn't expect to appeal.
This page was last edited on 29 September 2014, at 01:46 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.