SBC

Here is the problem. The SBC statement admirably denounces every form of racism in general, but specifically denounces only one kind of racism, the kind that has recently come bubbling to the surface in the alt-right movement. What this does is almost completely ignore where the alt-right movement is deriving its energy.

“The decision was met with a standing ovation as about 5,000 members of the denomination voted at their annual convention to affirm their opposition to the alt-right movement, which seeks a whites-only state. But it was not a decision easily reached.” WaPost

The SBC is often called “America’s largest Protestant denomination.” However, in all technicality, we’re a convention not a denomination. The SBC does not have a top-down denominational structure. We’re a collection of ministries supported by a cooperating network of churches. (and 9 more)

“Baptisms are at a 70-year low, while Sunday worshipers are at a 20-year low.” CT

SBC agency says Moore’s job requires ‘speaking prophetically both to our culture and to our Convention.’

“The past week has seen several notable statements of support for Dr. Moore’s continued leadership at the ERLC.”

“A Texas megachurch is withholding its donations to the Southern Baptist Convention, a tangible sign of the internal struggle over the direction of the country’s largest Protestant denomination. [The chuch] announced last week that it is placing $1 million in escrow, rather than sending the money to its umbrella organization.”

The shared vision of transforming lives and communities with the Gospel has led a historically independent church whose pastor serves as president of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International to become a cooperating church with the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.

Soteriological Assessment: What Is My Salvation Doctrine?

“The DC Baptist Convention has a relationship with the Southern Baptist Convention. Can that relationship continue with the DC Baptist Convention becoming ‘a convention that…does accept a church that has legally married [lesbian] copastors in terms of their own membership’?”