The current state of the Southern Baptist Convention is not healthy. I know it. You know it. And those in leadership (Patterson, Mohler, Akin, et al.) surely know it too. As the great theologian Leonard Cohen croons, “everybody knows.” The SBC is doctrinally confused and where confusion does not exist you can bet on the presence of rank doctrinal anemia.
We Southern Baptists don’t know what we believe and why we believe it.
The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM2000) is a near-useless article(s) of faith. Why such harsh words? Well, because there are motivations behind the document which render it near-useless. I am talking about “intentional ambiguity.” Continue Reading…
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The Southern Baptist Convention is a broad cooperation of Baptist churches with the mission to train and send missionaries around the world for the furtherance of the Gospel. There is theological diversity among the 40,000+ SBC churches and this diversity is also seen in Southern Baptist entities. The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM2000) serves as the SBC statement of faith, an umbrella that seeks to provide a set of broad boundaries for the Convention to operate and cooperate. 
It is our hope that SBC Focus serves as a way to present people with the face of Calvinism in the SBC. We want to show what it means to be a Southern Baptist who believes the theology commonly referred to as Calvinism. This website is not simply a place to argue for Calvinistic theology, though that will occur; this website is a place to offer a picture of the ministry commitments of Calvinists in the SBC. Along the way, we hope that people will realize that Calvinism is not an insidious evil and Calvinists are not the enemy. We hope to provide people a more accurate look at the theology of Calvinism and the ministry of Calvinists.
A new site has recently appeared which is seeking to bring to light several issues at 
