Southern Baptist of Texas Convention
MISSION STATEMENT
The SBTC exists to facilitate, extend and enlarge the Great Commission ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist churches and associations of Texas, upon the authority of God’s inerrant Word to the glory of God the father, under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
CORE VALUES
BIBLICALLY BASED
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Affirmation of a minimal set of doctrinal beliefs.
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Biblical inerrancy is the foundational element.
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Churches working together in mutual accountability.
KINGDOM FOCUSED
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A focus on missions and evangelism in budgeting and staffing priorities.
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Networking and using volunteers and paid consultants to keep bureaucracy to a minimum.
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Striving to resource the needs of SBTC churches rather than to direct their ministries.
MISSIONALLY DRIVEN
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Partnership with the Southern Baptist Convention through the traditional Cooperative Program.
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Utilizing the resources of the SBC agencies to maximize the ministry effectiveness of SBTC.
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Southern Baptist of Texas Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, has grown into a national network of more than forty-five thousand churches and church-type missions with nearly sixteen million members who worship in more than two dozen languages each week across the United States and its territories. Southern Baptists provide direct support for almost ten thousand individuals who serve across the nation and around the world in direct ministry as the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, ministering to at least 377 people groups in 153 countries, many of whom have little access to the Gospel in their native language. Southern Baptists also provide ministerial training and education for more than sixteen thousand full-time and part-time students through their six theological seminaries.
The term “Southern Baptist Convention” refers both to the eleven ministry entities supported by Southern Baptists and to the annual meeting when messengers to the Convention assemble in a host city to transact the business of the Convention. Working in cooperation with 1,174 local associations and 42 state conventions, Southern Baptists share a common bond of basic Biblical beliefs and a cooperative commitment to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world.
One becomes a Southern Baptist by uniting with a Southern Baptist church — one in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist enterprise of reaching the world for Christ. Typically church membership is a matter of receiving Jesus as your Savior and Lord and experiencing believer’s baptism by immersion.