history: I am attending my first Southern Baptist Convention and am unsure what to expect?
knowledge: With more than 15 million members , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church.
response: I didn't know that was actually a meeting. I just thought that was the name given to the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
history: I am attending my first Southern Baptist Convention and am unsure what to expect?
I didn't know that was actually a meeting. I just thought that was the name given to the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
It could be, that shows you how much I know what I am getting into?
knowledge: Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to the British Isles, particularly Scotland.
response: Ha! I don't know much more about the Southern Baptist Convention, but I know Presbyterianism originally came from Scotland. Is there anything else you'd like to know?
history: I am attending my first Southern Baptist Convention and am unsure what to expect?
I didn't know that was actually a meeting. I just thought that was the name given to the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
It could be, that shows you how much I know what I am getting into?
Ha! I don't know much more about the Southern Baptist Convention, but I know Presbyterianism originally came from Scotland. Is there anything else you'd like to know?
I'm currently a free agent on the religious front, but checking out my options.
knowledge: The word ''Southern'' in Southern Baptist Convention stems from it having been organized in 1845 at Augusta, Georgia, by Baptists in the Southern United States who split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery, specifically whether Southern slave owners could serve as missionaries.
response: OK, well getting back to the Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia in 1845. They split from the northern Baptists over slavery.
history: I am attending my first Southern Baptist Convention and am unsure what to expect?
I didn't know that was actually a meeting. I just thought that was the name given to the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
It could be, that shows you how much I know what I am getting into?
Ha! I don't know much more about the Southern Baptist Convention, but I know Presbyterianism originally came from Scotland. Is there anything else you'd like to know?
I'm currently a free agent on the religious front, but checking out my options.
OK, well getting back to the Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia in 1845. They split from the northern Baptists over slavery.
Oh really, I'm guessing the Southern Baptists were in favor of slavery?
knowledge: The word ''Southern'' in Southern Baptist Convention stems from it having been organized in 1845 at Augusta, Georgia, by Baptists in the Southern United States who split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery, specifically whether Southern slave owners could serve as missionaries.
response: Officially they split over whether slave owners could be missionaries.