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Media Relations
The SBC Executive Committee media relations team works to increase awareness and understanding of the mission and ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention. If you are a reporter, editor, host […]
Resolution On Convention Officers
WHEREAS, The custom in this body during recent years has been to elect its presidents three years in succession; and WHEREAS, Those who have served us in this high office […]
Resolution On The Necessity Of Salvation
WHEREAS, A major contribution to the demise of many Protestant denominations has been their loss of a clear understanding of, and commitment to, the biblical doctrine of salvation; and WHEREAS, […]
Resolution On The Priesthood Of The Believer
WHEREAS, None of the five major writing systematic theologians in Southern Baptist history have given more than passing reference to the doctrine of the priesthood of the believer in their […]
Resolution On World Peace
WHEREAS, The Bible teaches that human life is valuable and that genuine peace with justice is the ideal for relations between people of all nations. Therefore, be it RESOLVED, That […]
Resolution On Education
WHEREAS, We as Baptists believe that our language should indicate the loyalty of our people to our Lord and Saviour, and WHEREAS, The word religious indicates no specific relationship to […]
Resolution On Southern Baptists And Ecumenism
WHEREAS, Historically, Southern Baptists have resisted ecumenism while embracing Christian brotherhood and cooperation with other evangelicals and WHEREAS, We have witnessed in recent years the portrayal of denominations as barriers […]
Resolution On Appreciation Of The Convention Officers
Southern Baptists are blessed with many capable leaders. Some of the best have served the Convention this eventful year. James L. Sullivan has brought honor to the office of president. […]
Jonathan & Yesenia Santiago
Over the last three years, the island of Puerto Rico has endured a litany of tragedies. Hurricane Maria brought devastation in 2017. Toward the end of 2019, earthquakes began rattling […]
Travis & Beth Burkhalter
The Embera, an indigenous people group from Colombia, are a misunderstood, overlooked, uneducated, and displaced people group. IMB missionary Beth Burkhalter felt led to minister to the Embera women, so […]
Haylee Belcher
At 16 years old, Haylee Belcher felt called to serve overseas. Six years later, God sent Haylee to work in the Amazon. In college at Oklahoma Baptist University, Haylee went […]
David & Regina White
Today for our prayer time we are going to leave the United States and head south to Guatemala, a small country that is just south of Mexico. We are going […]
Scott & Joyce Pittman
Today we’re going to talk about two of our missionaries serving in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They are Scott and Joyce Pittman and our church supports them through our Cooperative Program […]
Ken & Viktoria Richardson
We know that Philadelphia was important in history. Now we Baptists are trying to make Christian history in the city by taking the Gospel there. For years Baptists have sent […]
Don Dent
Imagine you lived in a place where very few people had ever heard of Jesus. Nepal was that kind of place when Don Dent visited there 20 years ago. It’s […]
On Critical Race Theory And Intersectionality
WHEREAS, Concerns have been raised by some evangelicals over the use of frameworks such as critical race theory and intersectionality; and WHEREAS, Critical race theory is a set of analytical […]
On Defunding And Investigating Planned Parenthood
WHEREAS, Scripture clearly affirms the sanctity of human life throughout all stages of development (Psalm 139:13–16); and WHEREAS, God abhors the shedding of innocent blood and requires His people to […]
On Prayer
WHEREAS, Scripture reveals Jesus engaging in prayer on many occasions (Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16); and WHEREAS, The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray (Luke 11:1); and […]