Southern Baptist News

Four members have been added to the Great Commission task force appointed June 24 by Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt during the SBC annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.

Some Christian leaders say this generation is the most Biblically illiterate in history.

The answer to service at First Baptist Church in Montgomery is a four-letter word: more.

For the second week in a row, thousands of members of a conservative Christian movement converged on Louisville this week for their annual convention.

Leading the Go Ye Gospel Ministries congregation in song are, from left, Sarah David, Mercy Mbugua, Ruth Kinyanjui and Mary Njeri.

Clark Logan has resigned from the staff of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention where he has served as vice president for business and finance since Oct.

Is President Obama's new pastor a Southern Baptist? Apparently, it depends whom you ask.

Twenty-four Southern Baptists from a broad cross-section of the denomination comprise the new North American Great Commission Task Force set to meet for the first time on Tuesday, June 23, prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.

Wisconsin Gets Domestic Partnerships . The interim pastor of Broadway Baptist Church has provided additional detail to the reason that the Southern Baptist Convention has ousted them from communion .

"There's gold in them there pews." So says Johnny Hunt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

"Give me one reason to stay here - and I'll turn right back around." The old Tracy Chapman lyric summarized the question hovering Tuesday in a room packed with hundreds of Southern Baptists - most of them young, most of them men, many of them pastors or seminarians.

That's the advice the Rev. K. Marshall Williams Sr. has for his fellow Southern Baptists as they try to turn around declining membership and baptisms.

A declining membership and the suggestion to merge two mission boards are getting much attention at the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, Ky.

A Chipley pastor was among 18 Southern Baptists assigned Wednesday to a task force designed to look into reasons behind the denomination's decline in numbers, and suggest ideas to reverse the trend.

The Southern Baptist Convention's Annual Meeting in Louisville, Ky., earlier this week scrutinized Mark Driscoll, author and a pastor at 7,000-member Mars Hill Church in Seattle and president of the Acts 29 Network for church planting, who is not affiliated with the denomination.

Southern Baptist president Johnny Hunt delivered an impassioned and fiery message to fellow Baptist leaders on Tuesday, imploring them to get out of the lukewarm state found in many of America's pulpits.

A well-known minister of a denomination that once supported slavery and is firmly against a womana s right to an abortion said recently that he is praying for President Obama to die.a The Rev.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Southern Baptist membership will fall nearly 50 percent by 2050 unless the aging and predominantly white denomination reverses a 50-year trend and does more to strengthen evangelism, reach immigrants, and develop a broader ethnic base, according to data just released by LifeWay Research .

Southern Baptists are facing a membership decline that could shrink the nationa s largest Protestant denomination by nearly half in 40 years, its convention president said Tuesday.

Southern Baptists leaders are asking followers to put aside squabbles over political and social issues and look inward at a time when the nation's largest Protestant denomination is hoping to stop declining membership.