Southern Baptist Convention, nation's largest Protestant denomination and increasingly conservative force, adds to essential statement of beliefs declaration on family life that holds woman should . 52 Dorothy Kelley Patterson, The Family, in Doug Blount and Joseph Woodell,The Baptist Faith and Message 2000(Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 184. Regeneration:When one receives Jesus Christ as Lord, the Holy Spirit does an internal work to redirect his life, making him born again. Here are 10 things to know about Baptists and their beliefs. This is a betrayal of what it means to be distinctively Baptist. Phone: (202) 547-8105 betwixt one man and one woman (Heb. The wife's duties include management of the household and rearing children. They approve of divorce on Biblical grounds of infidelity. 26 B. Warfield,The Westminster Assembly and Its Work(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932; reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2003), 11-12. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. The Trinity:Southern Baptists believe in only one God who reveals himself as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Southern Baptist Convention's Doctrinal Shift on Homosexuality Nashville, Tennessee 37203 We were interpreted as suggesting that Southern Baptists as a matter of convention policy ought to marry younger. They encourage churches to offer counseling and mentorship to young couples and even make divorce and remarriage a matter of church discipline. Baptist church votes to OK gay marriage - Baptist News Global One example of such is in the work of Pastor Samuel Stennett and hisDiscourses on Domestic Duties(1783), which functioned as a family handbook provided to instruct Christian families.38 Rather than seeing families as merely focusing on themselves and their own development, Stennett saw the spiritual health of families as directly related to the spiritual health of the nation.
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