Thousands of God-called volunteers already teach, preach and witness in America’s prisons and jails. Now, each volunteer has an opportunity to expand the outreach of his or her ministry tenfold or more by simply encouraging their prisoners to make disciples of their fellow prisoner through the Philippi Prison Ministry prisoner-led effort. Just think: outside volunteers […]
Long before Baptists or any other group of churches or Christians formed conventions or mission boards, Christians naturally sought ways to work together through partnerships. This is true of the earthly ministry of Christ himself and of the Apostles. Acts 13:1-3 reports how the Holy Spirit spoke to five leaders of the Church in Antioch […]
Southern Baptists fiercely hold to the autonomy of every one of their churches. Historically, the denomination was created by the churches and not the churches by the denomination. Ecclesiastically, therefore, the churches, collectively, are superior to the boards and institutions they created. It might be thought that a denominational program created by the vote and […]
Southern Baptists have always been “church people.” The local church, for them, has been the central focus of their ministries. The local Southern Baptist church is an autonomous democratic body of believers professing to be under Christ’s direct rule and authority. Most of the churches honor and respect their pastors as the spiritual leader of […]
The last forty years, especially, have been years of enormous change in the American culture as well as the cultures of many other countries. The changes have not been favorable to Christianity and anti-Christian values have increasingly dominated society. These changes make more difficult the advance of Christianity and challenge the values of the churches […]
Southern Baptists were moved to organize as a convention when they realized that the challenge of world wide missions required resources that most churches alone would never have. When they organized the Convention in 1845, in Augusta, Georgia, they created the “Foreign Mission Board” and appointed their first foreign missionaries. Soon after, they formed the […]
Most Southern Baptists, at the beginning, were members of small rural churches spread across the Southeastern part of the USA. Many, if not most pastors had to supplement their income by farming or other work. Educational standards were low and seminary training was almost unheard of. Even so, Baptists were surprisingly united in doctrine, believing […]
Many millions of people who identify themselves as “Southern Baptists” In the United States and out across the world. That is a secondary description, because if they are truly Southern Baptists in the sense of ultimate values, they would first say, “We belong to Christ. We are his people.” They do not say this exclusively. […]
This web page has been completely changed during this month of June. Within a month’s time, we expect to start posting free access to the disciple-making tools that have made possible the ministries described on this web page.
We Southern Baptists rightly admit to many faults. It is not by accident, however, that God has made us the largest Evangelical denomination in the United States. We were favored by humble beginnings, have clung to the Bible as our guide, build lives on gospel teaching and preaching, and have learned to cooperate with one […]