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	Comparison of Baptist Faith & Message texts from 1925, 1963 and 2000
		Preamble to the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message
		Preamble to the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message
		Preamble to the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message
	www.baptiststandard.com /postnuke/themes/PostNukeBlue/comparison.html (8596 words)

	Baptist Faith and Message - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baptist Faith and Message (BFandM) is a Southern Baptist Convention confession of faith.
		Keeping with the Baptist principle that God's message is defined by God alone, the Baptist Faith and Message is not a creed or prescription of doctrine, but a rough consensus of the convention's member churches.
		Nevertheless, many Southern Baptist churches have adopted the Message as their "Statement of Faith" (though with the controversy over the 2000 revision, the church usually specifies whether it holds to the 1963 or 2000 version).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baptist_Faith_and_Message (310 words)

	Baptist Faith and Message -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) is a (An association of Southern Baptists) Southern Baptist Convention confession of faith.
		Although the Southern Baptist Convention was organized in 1845, no formal confession of faith was adopted until 1925, when the SBC formulated the Baptist Faith and Message.
		This last revision was controversial in two respects; first, it stated that wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands, a line which caused considerable discussion both within and outside of the church.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baptist_faith_and_message.htm (181 words)

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		The Baptist Faith and Message (1) Preface: The Rock Whence We are Hewn The 1962 session of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in San Francisco, California, adopted the following motion.
		A living faith must experience a growing understanding of truth and must be continually interpreted and related to the needs of each new generation Throughout their history Baptist bodies, both large and small, have issued statements of faith which comprise a consensus of their beliefs.
		It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/history/bfam.stm.txt (3745 words)

	The Baptist Faith and Message
		The Southern Baptist Convention averted such a crisis by adopting a clear affirmation of its faith, the Baptist Faith and Message, in 1925.
		It was a revision and expansion of the previous century's New Hampshire Confession of Faith, and its composition was overseen by Baptist statesman E. Mullins.
		The purpose of the BFM has been to declare the beliefs around which Southern Baptist identity was built, but it is not "creedal" in the sense of having authority over the SBC's affiliated churches.
	faith.propadeutic.com /bfm.html (3660 words)

	The Baptist Faith & Message
		Baptist churches, associations, and general bodies have adopted confessions of faith as a witness to the world, and as instruments of doctrinal accountability.
		We are not embarrassed to state before the world that these are doctrines we hold precious and as essential to the Baptist tradition of faith and practice.
		Southern Baptists overwhelmingly adopt revised Baptist Faith and Message
	www.sbc.net /bfm (317 words)

	News from Agape Press
		The SBC is asking its missionaries to uphold the beliefs outlined in the Baptist Faith and Message.
		Revised two years ago, the BF&M points to Jesus as the only way to salvation, states that women -- according to Scripture -- are not to hold the office of pastor, and encourages wives to be submissive to their husbands.
		According to Baptist Press, all missionaries under the SBC's International Mission Board are thoroughly screened on their beliefs, and for many years have been asked to sign a statement affirming the BF&M before they are appointed.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/2/122002c.asp (319 words)

	The Baptist Faith and Message (2000)
		Baptists must also make clear our affirmation of the blessing of racial and ethnic diversity, and acknowledge that all races possess full dignity by the creative intention of God.
		We reaffirm the New Testament heritage of Baptist congregationalism in Article VI: "The Church," recovering the language of the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message and affirming the contribution of the 1963 statement as reflected in the last paragraph of the article.
		The Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee issued the following statement on May 26, 2000 in response to questions and feedback they received from Southern Baptists shortly after the release of their report.
	www.bible-researcher.com /baptistfaith.html (6245 words)

	FAITH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
		Let Baptist Churches beware of even disciplinary and other varieties of resolutions, which they sometimes pass in their conferences, which resolutions might be construed as laws or rules of Church government, The New Testament has all necessary laws and rules.
		The name "Baptist" is a "nickname," and was given to them by their enemies (unless the name can be rightfully attributed to them as having been given to them by the Savior Himself, when He referred to John as "The Baptist").
		In this colony was a settlement of Baptists.
	pluto.matrix49.com /15361/?subpages/Trail-Of-Blood.shtml (20439 words)

	First Baptist Church Moncks Corner - Baptist Faith and Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baptist Faith and Message was amended by the Southern Baptist Convention to include Article XVIII on the family on June 9, 1998.
		Throughout its work your committee has been conscious of the contribution made by the statement of "The Baptist Faith and Message" adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1925.
		Furthermore, it concurs in the introductory "statement of the historic Baptist conception of the nature and function of confessions of faith in our religious and denominational life." It is, therefore, quoted in full as part of this report to the Convention.
	www.fbcmcsc.org /faithandmessage.html (3478 words)

	The 2000 Baptist Faith and Message Revisions
		The reason for revisions of a confession of faith is not because the Bible or truth change, but because new issues arise which need to be addressed.
		Baptists thus reject inclusivism and pluralism in salvation, for these compromise the Gospel itself.
		Rogers' cover letter addresses this last change specifically, "We reaffirm the New Testament heritage of Baptist Congregationalism in Article VI: 'The Church,' recovering the language of the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message and affirming the contribution of the 1963 statement as reflected in the last paragraph of the article.
	www.baptiststart.com /print/2000_revisions.html (1928 words)

	Alaska Baptists endorse Baptist Faith and Message - (BP)
		SOLDOTNA, Alaska (BP)--Messengers to the Alaska Baptist Convention's annual meeting approved a resolution endorsing the Baptist Faith and Message and affirming the convention's relationship with the Southern Baptist Convention.
		The resolution affirming the BFM and the SBC, which was approved without opposition, was distributed to messengers and guests by the resolutions committee.
		It stated, in part, that the Baptist Faith and Message has been "an integral part of the fiber and theological life of Alaska Baptists [and] is accepted and used by the SBC and our partner entities such as the North American Mission Board, LifeWay Christian Resources, and others."
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=11581 (716 words)

	SBC Referral on Baptist Faith and Message
		The Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention affirms The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 as the accepted confession governing its work, and acknowledges the responsibility of each Southern Baptist Convention entity to utilize The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 consistent with its Southern Baptist Convention mission statement and ministry assignments.
		In addition to that, Southeastern presently prints The Baptist Faith and Message in our catalog and makes it crystal clear to all employees that since it is the statement of faith adopted by the Convention that we will, in fact, teach within and never contrary to that statement.
		The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is fully committed to confessional accountability to the Southern Baptist Convention and gladly requires its faculty to sign the Abstract of Principles and The Baptist Faith and Message.
	pages.prodigy.net /wrjohnston/baptist/docbf&mrefer.html (680 words)

	Seminary magazine addresses issues involving Baptist Faith and Message - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"The Southern Baptist Convention's overwhelming endorsement of the proposals put forth by the Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee is a clear sign of doctrinal solidarity and consensus," Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes in the seminary publication.
		Graham is pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas; Akin is dean of Southern Seminary's school of theology.
		One is Ronald Sisk of Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, who was quoted in The Courier-Journal (Louisville) newspaper as saying, "Not all Scripture rises to the full level of Christ." For example, Sisk pointed to passages in the Old Testament and to teachings by Paul.
	www.bpnews.org /bpnews.asp?ID=6694 (1344 words)

	Baptist Faith and Message - SBC Baptist Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--This article of the Baptist Faith and Message is a noble condensation of a beautiful biblical and historically Baptist doctrine.
		LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The Baptist Faith and Message speaks of baptism and the Lord's Supper as ordinances.
		The importance of the marriage relationship unfolds symbolically in the Old Testament with God as husband and Israel as wife, and in the New Testament with Jesus as the bridegroom and the church as the radiant bride.
	www.bpnews.net /bpcollectionnews.asp?ID=23 (1565 words)

	Birmingham Baptists debate BF&M \| Friday, March 14, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two Baptist associations in Alabama have joined the ranks of those debating how the 2000 version of the Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) will affect their ministries and makeup.
		Birmingham Baptist Association (BBA) and Mobile Baptist Association (MBA) recently addressed affirmation of the latest revision of Southern Baptists' official faith statement, which was adopted during the 2000 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting in Orlando.
		Pastors in the MBA declined to require associational employees to affirm the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) as well as fall under other stricter guidelines during the Jan. 14 executive board meeting.
	www.biblicalrecorder.org /content/news/2003/3_14_2003/ne140303birmingham.shtml (682 words)

	Baptist Distinctives
		Baptist Distinctives Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1997.
		Sermons on Baptist Distinctives for the Baptist Distinctives Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1997.
		Sermons on the Baptist Faith and Message in Honor of the Texas Baptist Sesquicentennial for the Baptist Distinctives Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1998.
	www.mainstreambaptists.org /mbn1/baptist.htm (831 words)

	DIDASKALOS MINISTRIES, The Baptist Faith and Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You cannot visit one Southern Baptist Church and say, "I know all about the Baptists", for their very autonomy makes this impossible: each Church functions as an independent entity as it feels led of the Lord.
		In recent times we have had some Churches that were affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention who departed from the truths contained in the Baptist Faith and Message.
		Baptists were not always Arminian in theology, but were, during the foundation of the Church, heavily Calvinistic.
	www.bibleteacher.org /baptist.htm (619 words)

	Southeastern faculty sign Baptist Faith and Message - Baptist2Baptist
		SEBTS trustees affirm Baptist Faith & Message 2000
		Southeastern and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., historically have followed the Abstract of Principles while the other four SBC seminaries have adhered to the Baptist Faith and Message.
		Patterson recounted that "we made an attempt to amend the Baptist Faith and Message [during his presidency of the SBC] so as to strengthen it and to return it to the strong document it once was when it was the New Hampshire Confession of Faith and then the Baptist Faith and Message of 1925."
	www.baptist2baptist.net /b2barticle.asp?ID=142 (1094 words)

	Minister's Licensing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This document is submitted as a suggestion to aid churches in dealing with the purpose, procedures, and the proper questions that should be addressed when one is being considered as a candidate for licensing.
		It should be noted that we refer to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 simply because that is the confession of belief that Southern Baptist has gone on record overwhelmingly a few years ago to accept.
		The other reason is that according to the by-laws of the Consolation Baptist Association we are to adhere, as an association body, to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
	www.cobaptist.org /ministers%20licensing.htm (1497 words)

	Highlights of recent changes in the Baptist Faith and Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This faith is rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ who is "the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." Therefore, the sole authority for faith and practice among Baptists is Jesus Christ whose will is revealed in the Holy Scriptures.
		With the 1963 committee, we have been guided in our work by the 1925 "statement of the historic Baptist conception of the nature and function of confessions of faith in our religious and denominational life...." It is, therefore, quoted in full as a part of this report to the Convention:
		Note: This comparison does not include all changes to the Baptist Faith and Message, but does include all those that have been points of controversy.
	www.johnstonsarchive.net /baptist/bfmcompa.html (2009 words)

	Baptist Faith and Message defense \| Friday, Sept. 19, 2003
		I want to commend Dr. Jerry Rankin and the IMB on their move to have the missionaries affirm the Baptist Faith and Message.
		The Baptist Faith and Message is an attempt to put into simple language what makes Southern Baptists unique in Christendom.
		The Baptist Faith and Message has not changed, the doctrines are the same.
	www.biblicalrecorder.org /content/opinion/2003/9_19_2003/th190903baptist.shtml (291 words)

	Women, The Baptist Faith and Message and Charles Stanley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Producing a concise, clear statement of the generally held beliefs of Southern Baptists is challenging, especially when Scripture is contra-culture and against popularly held notions.
		I served on the Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee that drafted a statement on the family.
		She holds graduate theology degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Luther Rice Seminary and the University of South Africa.
	www.cbmw.org /article.php?id=104 (1131 words)

	1963/1998 The Baptist Faith and Message
		On May 9, 1963, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a revised summary of the Southern Baptist faith.
		On June 9, 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention added an eighteenth section, "The Family," to the seventeen sections adopted in 1963.
		Report of the Committee on the Baptist Faith and Message (1963)
	www.utm.edu /martinarea/fbc/bfm/1963-1998 (164 words)

	Report of Baptist Faith & Message committee
		Editor's note: What follows is the unedited text of the document to be presented to messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 14 in Orlando, Fla.
		"I move that in your capacity as Southern Baptist Convention chairman, you appoint a blue ribbon committee to review the Baptist Faith and Message statement with the responsibility to report and bring any recommendations to this meeting next June in Orlando."
		The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2000/6_12/pages/bfm.html (4272 words)

	BAPTIST FAITH AND MESSAGE: Article 4c: Sanctification - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is hard to conceive of a greater privilege we enjoy as Christians than the reality of being united to our Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and as justified believers, being renewed and conformed to the likeness and image of our glorious Redeemer (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 3:9-10).
		And as a result, we are no longer under the headship of Adam and the power of sin and death; but instead, by grace we have been transferred into the kingdom of God's own dear Son, set apart as holy unto the Lord (Rom 5:12-6:23; Col 1:13-14; 1 Peter 1:15-16).
		The Baptist Faith and Message correctly notes that it begins in regeneration.
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=14028 (1084 words)

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