They have none. It is a voluntary association by both parties. Each church owns or rents its own properties and pays its own staff.
If you don’t like the Baptist church you attend, there’s another one down the road. Or start your own and seek fellowship with the SBC, or another convention, or be an independent Baptist church.
Actually, I don’t want the SBC messing with my church. They do so much good and I like the church just the way it is.
Well, if the church doesn’t want to belong to the SBC, they don’t have to. And in any event, The Southern Baptist Convention speaks only for the convention, not the state conventions or other associations. None of them speak for the individual churches.
Well, if the church doesn’t want to belong to the SBC, they don’t have to. And in any event, The Southern Baptist Convention speaks only for the convention, not the state conventions or other associations. None of them speak for the individual churches.