Southern Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptist Convention: statistics indicate decline

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“The 2010 Annual Church Profile showed dips in baptisms, total church membership, worship attendance and participation in Sunday school and other Christian education programs. Declines were also reported in giving categories, but some of that was attributed to the fact that not all Baptist state conventions asked churches for information in ways that make for year-to-year comparison.”

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"An eruption in one of the fault lines sets of... a great deal of disagreement within the larger Southern Baptist fellowship."

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Will SBC ‘fault lines’ lead to division or unity? “Using the term ‘fault lines,’ Lemke wrote that the SBC landscape includes such points of contention as greater Baptist identity vs. lesser Baptist identity; smaller churches vs. larger churches; anti-Great Commission Resurgence (GCR) vs. pro-GCR; majority Baptist theology vs.

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