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Baptist Faith and Message 2000 Preamble
The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 Preamble Report of the Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee to the Southern Baptist Convention Adopted, June 14th, 2000 The 1999 session of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, adopted the following motion addressed to the President of the Convention: "I move that in your capacity as Southern Baptist Convention chairman, you appoint a blue ribbon committee to review the Baptist Faith and Message statement with the responsibility to report and bring any recommendations to this meeting next June in Orlando." President Paige Patterson appointed the committee as follows: Max Barnett (OK), Steve Gaines (AL), Susie Hawkins (TX), Rudy A. Hernandez (TX), Charles S. Kelley, Jr. (LA), Heather King (IN), Richard D. Land (TN), Fred Luter (LA), R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (KY), T. C. Pinckney (VA), Nelson Price (GA), Adrian Rogers (TN), Roger Spradlin (CA), Simon Tsoi (AZ), Jerry Vines (FL). Adrian Rogers (TN) was appointed chairman. Your committee thus constituted begs leave to present its report as follows: Baptists are a people of deep beliefs and cherished doctrines. Throughout our history we have been a confessional people, adopting statements of faith as a witness to our beliefs and a pledge of our faithfulness to the doctrines revealed in Holy Scripture. Our confessions of faith are rooted in historical precedent, as the church in every age has been called upon to define and defend its beliefs. Each generation of Christians bears the responsibility of guarding the treasury of truth that has been entrusted to us [2 Timothy 1:14]. Facing a new century, Southern Baptists must meet the demands and duties of the present hour. -
Inventory of The
Inventory of the Adrian Rogers Collection AR 691 Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Prepared by Michelle Herr June 2011 Inventory of the Adrian Rogers Collection AR 691 Summary Main Entry: Adrian Rogers Collection Date Span: 1979 – 1988 Abstract: Collection contains files related to Adrian Rogers’ tenure as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1979 to 1980 and 1986 to 1988. It includes information related to a variety of SBC agencies, including the Executive Committee, Sunday School Board, Home Mission Board, and Foreign Mission Board. Size: 3 linear ft. (7 document boxes) Collection #: AR 691 Biographical Sketch Southern Baptist minister and denominational leader. A two-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Adrian Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1931. Upon graduating from high school, Rogers received a bachelor’s degree from Stetson University. While a freshman there, he married his childhood sweetheart, Joyce Gentry. The couple had four children. Rogers went on to obtain degrees in theology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Trinity College. Rogers spent his early pastoral career ministering to two churches in Florida - Parkview Baptist Church (Fort Pierce, Fla.) and Merritt Island Baptist Church. In 1972, Rogers became pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Over the next thirty- two years, Bellevue’s congregation grew from 8,700 to nearly 29,000. As minister to one of the premiere Baptist churches, Rogers traveled extensively as an evangelist and Bible teacher. In 1987, Rogers formed Love Worth Finding Ministries, a radio and television ministry that broadcasts to more than 150 countries. -
Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita June 19, 1986
Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1985-1989 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 6-19-1986 June 19, 1986 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_85-89 Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Messengers converge on Atlanta for 129th by Mark Kelly Tuesday morning, June 10 ..... ,.,..., .... GI. ATLANTA-As early as 5:00 a.m .. they began to gather, messengers from Southern Baptist churches acr0$5 ttie U.nited States awaiting the mad scramble for seats in the Georgia World Congress Center during the ti9th session of the Southern Baptist co'nvention. When the · doors finally opened at 6:45 -an hour and forty-five minutes before the first session convened-streams of peo ple rushed' toward the 27,000-seat main floor. Messengers·darted for the escalatOrs, hoping to stake out a front rryw or aisle seat. They arriVed to find several persons had beaten them by entering through unlocked service doors Defore the building was official- ly opened. · -The rush for seats reflected a height of interest in the annual meeting comparable the results of messenger ballotmg fo}..,the SBC only to last ye.ar'$ mee.ting in Dallas, Texas, 1 pres1dency dunng the anniiif ~... .... ~" ' \ vy · - ~ ' ration record was set. Atfan ta june 10-12. EleCted to o ' ·: F ration at the Atlanta Adrian Rogers, President; Jack StaritOn,. : •.)l ni'e""eti ng P,3.'C~ umbers almost one- vice-preSident; and Ray ROberts, second - for-one. At 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, shortly ;. -
A Faithful Soldier Charles Jerry Vines by Nancy Lee Smith
A Faithful Soldier Charles Jerry Vines by Nancy Lee Smith “A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.” ~Martin Luther In an interview right before his retirement, a news reporter asked Jerry Vines the question, “Let‟s just say that you could gather every single person on the First Coast to listen to your last sermon here, what would be your message?” Vines answered saying he would speak on a familiar passage from the third chapter of the book of John. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” He then added, “That‟s the whole thing in a nutshell.” Proclaiming the message of God‟s love from John 3:16 has been the nutshell of Jerry Vines‟ ministry for over 50 years. From small country churches in the red hills of Georgia to meetings with United States Presidents, Jerry Vines‟ ministry has flourished. His retirement from the pastorate and his new focus on preachers marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. Hearing a message of love from Jerry Vines may not be what some people expect from the nationally known preacher. Indeed, his sermons, his opinions, and his writings cause some to label him controversial, even contentious. “Any time a man preaches the truth of Scripture, that in and of itself becomes controversial in our culture, especially,” Vines says. -
The Origin, Theology, Transmission, and Recurrent Impact of Landmarkism in the Southern Baptist Convention (1850-2012)
THE ORIGIN, THEOLOGY, TRANSMISSION, AND RECURRENT IMPACT OF LANDMARKISM IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION (1850-2012) by JAMES HOYLE MAPLES submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY in the subject CHURCH HISTORY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA Supervisor: PROF M. H. MOGASHOA March 2014 © University of South Africa ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH DOCTORAL PROJECT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA Title: THE ORIGIN, THEOLOGY, TRANSMISSION, AND RECURRENT IMPACT OF LANDMARKISM IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION (1850-2012) Name of researcher: James Hoyle Maples Promoter: M. H. Mogashoa, Ph.D. Date Completed: March 2014 Landmarkism was a sectarian view of Baptist church history and practice. It arose in the mid-eighteenth century and was a dominant force in the first half-century of the life of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination. J. R. Graves was its chief architect, promoter, and apologist. He initiated or helped propagate controversies which shaped Southern Baptist life and practice. His influence spread Landmarkism throughout the Southern Baptist Convention through religious periodicals, books, and educational materials. Key Landmark figures in the seminaries and churches also promoted these views. After over fifty years of significant impact the influence of Landmarkism seemed to diminish eventually fading from sight. Many observers of Southern Baptist life relegated it to a movement of historical interest but no current impact. In an effort to examine this assumption, research was conducted which explored certain theological positions of Graves, other Landmarkers, and sects claimed as the true church by the promoters of Baptist church succession. -
BAPTIST PRESS (615} 24H355 Wilmerc
NATIONAL OFFICE SBC Executive Committee 460 Jame& Robertson ParkwaY Na&hvllle, Tel1nesllee37219 BAPTIST PRESS (615} 24H355 WilmerC. FieldS,Director ~WI Service of the Southern .eptllt convention Dan Martin, .New& Editor Craig Bird, F8.llture Editor BUREAUS ATLANTA Jim Newton, Chief, 1350 Spring St.. N.W" Atlanta. Ga. 30367, Telephone f404) 873-4041 DALLAS Thomas J. Brannon. Chief, 103 Baptist Building, Dallas. Texas 75201. Telephone (214) 741-1996 , NASHVILLE (Baptist Sunday School Board) Lloyd T. Householder. Chief. 127 Ninth Ave" N" Nashville, Tenn. 37234. Telephone (615) 251·2300 RICHMOND (Foreign) Robert L. Stanley. Chief, 3806 Monument Ave.. Richmond. Va, 23230, Telephone (804) 353-0151 WASHINGTON Stan L. Hastey, Chief, 200 Maryland Ave., N.£" Washington. D.C. 20002, Telephone (202) 544-4226 Jyne 13, 1984 84-87 Stanley, Elected Pfesident Of SBC By Greg Warner Vines sa~d Stanley's Atlanta church "just m.ay be'the greatest missionary-g:l.ving sad sending church in the history of the ,Southern Baptist Convention." He .noted the church gave $600,QOO to "mission causes"- this year, but did not indicate. how much of that figurew~s' contributed through the Cooperative Program. "Ifa1l our churches would just beg:!..n to have the impact of First Baptist Church of A;1anta, Bold Miss1qn .Thrust would be an accomplished fact ,I! Vines said. Cothen's'name was offered by B.O. Baker, pastor of Plymouth Park Baptist Church, Irving, 'Texas, lihosa1d Cothen",was an "uncommon man'· .who could lead Southern Baptists otit of a t.tme of strife. Baker said Cothen's 40 years of service to Southern Baptist$ h4d prepared him to take the helm Qf the denomination•. -
Distinctive Or Dogmatic
Southern Baptists, Tongues, and Historical Policy Dr. Emir Caner The Center for Theological Research October 2006 White Paper 12 Published by the Center for Theological Research at www.BaptistTheology.org © 2006 Emir Caner Permissions: The purpose of this material is to serve the churches. Please feel free to distribute as widely as possible. We ask that you maintain the integrity of the document and the author’s wording by not making any alterations. For special requests please contact the editorial board for the White Papers for approval at [email protected]. The Center for Theological Research Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth, Texas Malcolm B. Yarnell, III, Director Southern Baptists, Tongues, and Historical Policy A White Paper from the CTR Southern Baptists, Tongues, and Historical Policy Historical Precedent The situation seems all too familiar now. Trustees of a mission board, empowered to enact policies they believe best represent Southern Baptist doctrine and practice, pass a new policy which stipulates that any missionary candidate who speaks in a private prayer language has disqualified himself from consideration. This stricter set of regulations is first birthed via general guidelines which the trustees believed needed to be codified with stronger language. Subsequently, one trustee speaks out against the new directive questioning the definition of glossolalia (Gr., “speaking in tongues”).1 Moreover, the president of the agency, elected because he was considered a conservative, incredibly speaks out against the new policy, although he subsequently promises to follow its guidelines.2 Finally, accusations are then leveled at some of the trustees, alleging a dispensational view of Scripture is behind these actions. -
Yoked with Jesus KEY PASSAGE: Matthew 11:28-30 | SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES: Mark 10:46 | John 4:5-6; 14:27 | Hebrews 13:5
SERMON NOTES From In Touch With Dr. Charles Stanley Yoked With Jesus KEY PASSAGE: Matthew 11:28-30 | SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES: Mark 10:46 | John 4:5-6; 14:27 | Hebrews 13:5 SUMMARY alleviate our problems temporarily at best, and may actually add to our load. Jesus wants us to abandon all the We’re all familiar with the junk mail that fills our other yokes we may have tried and come to Him to receive mailboxes yet contains nothing worth reading. His yoke, which is unlike any other. In contrast, every time we open the Bible we receive a Burdens are the daily pressures of life that are weighing message of great value because we’re listening to the voice us down. We’re yoked to them if we wake up with our of God. Unlike junk mail, which isn’t delivered on holidays, burdens, carry them all day long, and take them to bed God’s Word is always available if we’ll pick it up and read with us at night. As a result, we feel weary, discouraged, it. And one of the messages we hear is an invitation to hopeless, and helpless because there seems to be no way come to Jesus, take His yoke, and learn from Him. of escape, and we’re exhausted. SERMON POINTS In Jesus’ day, people were very familiar with a yoke. It was a heavy bar placed over the neck of two animals to enable Every word of Scripture is true, and there is them to pull a wagon or plow. -
BAPTIST PRESS (615) 244-2355 Alvin C
· . NATIONAL ·OFFICE SBC .Executive Committee 901 Commerce #750 Nashville, Tennessee 37203 BAPTIST PRESS (615) 244-2355 Alvin C. Shackleford, Director (BP) Nlwt hrvlce of the Southern Ilptllt Convention Dan Martin, News Editor Marv Knox, Feature Editor BUREAUS ATLANTA Jim Newton, Chief, 1350 Spring St., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30367, Telephone (404) 873·4041 DALLAS ThOmas J. Brannon, Chief, 511 N. Akard, Dallas, Texas 75201, Telephone (214) 720-0550 NASHVILLE (Baptist Sunday School Board) Lloyd T. Householder, Chief, 127 Ninth Ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 37234, Telephone (615) 251·2300 RICHMOND (Foreign) Robert L Stanley, Chief, 3806 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va. 23230, Telephone (804) 353-0151 WASHINGTON Stan L. Hastey, Chief, 200 Maryland Ave.. N.E.. Washington, D.C. 20002, Telephone (202) 544·4226 June 15, 1987 87-91 Jews For Jesus Wins Supreme Court Test WASHINGTON (BP)--A unanimous Supreme Court ruled June 15 that airport officials may not issue blanket bans on First Amendment activities inside airport terminals without violating citizens' constitutional rights. The high court, in Board of Airport Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, held that a representative of the controversial messianic Jewish group was unlaw fully arrested three years ago for handing out literature urging Jews to convert to Christianity Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for all nine high court justices, ruled a 1983 resolution of the Board of Airport Commissioners banning First Amendment activities was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. "We think it obvious that such a ban cannot be justified...because no conceivable governmental interest would justify such an absolute prohibition of speech," O'Connor wrote. -
Southern Baptist Convention Peace Committee Documents
CHARLES G. FULLER COLLECTION AR 893 Charles Fuller Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives June, 2018 2 CHARLES G. FULLER COLLECTION AR 893 Summary Main Entry: Charles G. Fuller Collection Date Span: 1985 – 1991 Abstract: Collection of correspondence, minutes, clippings, documents, and other material related to the work of the Southern Baptist Convention Peace Committee from 1985 to 1991. Charles G. Fuller, pastor of First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia, served as chairman of the committee. Size: 3 linear ft. Collection #: AR 893 Historical Sketch During the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas, June 11 – 13, 1985, a special committee was created to attempt to determine the sources of the current controversy in the SBC and to make findings and recommendations to resolve it. The committee met 14 times. Following each meeting, a report was given to Southern Baptists by Charles G. Fuller, Chairman of the Committee, through the denominational news service, Baptist Press. The committee made a preliminary report to the 1986 Convention and a final report that was adopted in 1987. The committee consisted of 22 members who were selected to equally represent the various factions within the convention. The following persons served on this Special Committee that ultimately became known as the Peace Committee: Charles G. Fuller, Chairman Charles W. Pickering Harmon M. Born William E. Poe Doyle E. Carlton, Jr. Ray E. Roberts Mrs. Morris H. Chapman Adrian P. Rogers William O. Crews* Cecil E. Sherman* Robert E. Cuttino John Sullivan Mrs. A. Harrison Gregory Daniel G. Vestal Jim Henry Jerry Vines William E. -
Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita June 30, 1983
Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1980-1984 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 6-30-1983 June 30, 1983 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_80-84 Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons On the cover The dangers of civil religion by l arry Braidfoot One of the greatest dangers both to' gov political leaders is the mampulation o f reli ernment and to au then tic religion is civil gious leaders and programs for political religion. Civil religion is a mixture of reli purposes. gion and politics which !erves the interests In the Unitl•d States, rel1gious liberty and of the state In c•vll rel igion. organized reli separation of church and state help the gion is used as a means of generating sup churches maintain the1r independence. port for political positions. pprova l is While--clear delineation of these principles sought from religious leaders to justify ac is difficult. thi independence is necessary tions of the state. The religious insti tutions for freedom of religion to be preserved. assume a role of secondary importance in Efforts frequently are made to get reli· supporting the iniliatives and actions of gious grol1ps to vote in blocks on the basis political leaders. of certain iss ues which are generall y Civil religion is idolo1try which gives chosen fo r their emotional appeal to spe higher loy01 lty to some ideo logy or political Cia l iniCrcst groups. Protestants. Catholics. institution than to the l o rd God. -
(Bp) •• Baptist Press
NATIONAL OFFICE sec Exeeutive Committee 901 Commeree #750 Nashville, Tennessee 37203 •• BAPTIST PRESS (61S) 244·2355 Herb Hollinger. Viee President (BP) Fax (615) 742-8919 CompuServe 10# 70420.17 BUREAUS ATLANTA Jim Newton. Chief, 1350 Spring St., N. w.. Allanra. a... 30U1, Talephone (404) 898·1522 DALLAS Thom.. J. Brannon, Chief. 333 N. WlJshlng/on, D,"as, Texas 75241H198. T,lephone (214) 828'5232 NASHVILLE Lloyd T. HousehOld,.. Chief, 121 Ninth A N.. N..hvllle, Tenn. 31234, Telephone (515) 251-2300 RICHMOND Robert L. Stantey. Chief, 380/$ Monument A Richmond, Va., 23230, Telephone (804) 353-0151 WASHINGTON 1bm Srrode, Chief, 400 Norrh Capirol St.. #594. WlJshlngron, D.C. 2000/, Telepno"e {202} 538·3223 November 13, 1992 92-191 NASHVILLE -- Integrity, Chapman says, calls CBF to separate itself from SBC. NASHVILLE -- Reconsider stands on abortion, homosexuality, Land urges Clinton. COLOMBIA -- Missionary abducted, then freed in Colombia. LOUISIANA -- Louisiana Baptists use constitution to exclude pro-homosexual churches. MISSISSIPPI -- Mississippi Baptists hedge on Clinton-Gore affirmation. OKLAHOMA -- Economic hard times cited as Oklahomans adopt budget. GEORGIA -- New president, exec. director highlight GBC annual meeting. NASHVILLE -- Correction. ".;,·',t Integrity, Chapman says, calls Baptist Press CBF to separate itself from SBC By Art Toalston 11/13/92 MOORE, Okla. (BP)--As a matter of integrity, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship ", ~ ..",; should separate itself·from the Southern Baptist Convention, said SBC Executive Committee President Morris H. Chapman Nov. 11. "Their greatest integrity," Chapman said of the CBF, "would be openly declaring they no longer are cooperating Southern Baptists, rather than claiming to be Southern Baptists and trying to draw funds from good-hearted, grass-roots Southern Baptists." Chapman made the comment during an interview with The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City.