Correct. Only about 30% of SBC churches identify as Calvinist.
But I have to wonder how many people will say, as I do, that I am not a Calvinist, I am a Particular Baptist. :)
Should I Leave the Southern Baptist Convention?
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Steven Yeadon, Sep 21, 2017.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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The average church member is probably a modalist and doesn't know what that moniker means.
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I would agree, Doc, but I'm not sure the majority of church members would identify as Trinitarian unless it was included in a multiple-choice question that included obviously false answers.
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It is true. I have seen persons excluded from new membship because
They did not profess ES. Because they did not understand grace.
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I don't think that came from the convention; it was what the churches believed was proper. (This is a separate issue from recent decisions by the mission boards to reject candidates whose baptisms were by non-ES groups).
In the church I grew up in, our longtime piano player had to be baptized before she could become a member because her original baptism (by immersion) was in a Pentecostal (Wesleyan in soteriology) church. No one from the convention forced the baptism; it was just accepted within the church that it was the way things should be. -
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I guess what I'm making sense of as I type, and thank you for the correction, is that it seems like most "Christians" I meet in Orlando, FL are in need of someone telling them only the Jesus of the bible saves. They also need to be told that the worries of this world, the allure of wealth, and the desire for other things are deadly dangerous. I need to get past my cowardice, I see, and just say the true but hated thing with nearly everyone I meet in evangelism.
Thank you for the correction. But I must disagree on international missions to an extent. The last thing I want to inflict on anyone overseas is a false Jesus, and there are now a seemingly growing part of the convention that have a more Moderate, Ecumenical. or even Charismatic Jesus in mind than the real one. -
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SBC President W.A. Criswell at the denomination's 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting in 1970
"Criswell told Southern Baptists 'if ever we lose that missionary passion we shall dissolve like a rope of sand.' He explained it this way: 'Our world-wide mission program holds us together like cables of steel.'" -
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