13 Facts About Southern Baptist

Southern Baptist Convention is a Christian denomination based in the United States.

Southern Baptist churches are evangelical in doctrine and practice, emphasizing the significance of the individual conversion experience, which is affirmed by the person having complete immersion in water for a believer's baptism; they reject the practice of infant baptism.

Particularly in Virginia, many Southern Baptist preachers were prosecuted for "disturbing the peace" by preaching without licenses from the Anglican church.

Baptists in Southern churches preferred a more centralized organization of churches patterned after their associations, with a variety of ministries brought under the direction of one denominational organization.

Southern Baptist had served as president of the Triennial Convention in 1841.

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White Southern Baptist churches lost black members to the new denominations, as well as to independent congregations which were organized by freedmen.

Southern Baptist had earned respect by showing leadership skills in building a large congregation in New Orleans.

General theological perspective of the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention is represented in the Baptist Faith and Message .

Southern Baptist Church subscribes to the complementarian view of gender roles.

Southern Baptist has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family.

Southern Baptist's, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.

The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution in the early 1980s recognizing that offices requiring ordination are restricted to men.

Southern Baptist Convention was organized in 1845 primarily for the purpose of creating a mission board to support the sending of Baptist missionaries.