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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 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) is a Baptist Christian denomination in United States, established after the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, and headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. According to a census published in 2023, the CBF claimed 1,800 churches and ...
The Utah–Idaho Southern Baptist Convention participates in the Cooperative Program (CP). CP is described as a tool used by God to empower the witness of Baptists in Utah and Idaho. Every Southern Baptist Church in the state is challenged to give 10% of all tithes and offerings to the Cooperative Program.
The Southern Baptist Convention faces yet another crisis of identity at its upcoming annual meeting. Anticipation ahead of the 2022 and 2023 SBC annual meetings was one of existential angst ...
The State Convention of Baptists in Indiana participates in the Cooperative Program (CP). CP is described as a tool used by God to empower the witness of Baptists in Indiana. Every Southern Baptist Church in Indiana is challenged to give 10% of all her tithes and offerings to the Cooperative Program.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual census reported 241,000 fewer members and 292 fewer churches in 2023, another yearly drop for the nation's largest Protestant denomination.. Lifeway ...
Throughout the 20th century, controversy had flared up sporadically among Southern Baptists over the nature of biblical authority and how to interpret the Bible. Until 1925 the SBC did not have a specific, formal confession of faith; whenever an issue arose it had looked to two earlier and more general baptistic confessions of faith produced in the United States: the Philadelphia Confession of ...
An Oklahoma minister will be nominated to lead the Southern Baptist Convention when delegates of the nation's largest Protestant denomination gather in June.. The Rev. Mike Keahbone, of Lawton ...