A Commitment to Christ’s Lordship — We call upon all Southern Baptists to submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ in all things at the personal, local church, and denominational levels.
A Commitment to Gospel-Centeredness — We call upon all Southern Baptists to make the gospel of Jesus Christ central in our lives, our churches, and our denominational ministries.
A Commitment to the Great Commandments — We call upon all Southern Baptists to recommit to the priority of the Great Commandments in every aspect of our lives and every priority we embrace as a network of local Baptist churches.
A Commitment to Biblical Inerrancy and Sufficiency — We call upon Southern Baptists to unite around a firm conviction in the full truthfulness and complete sufficiency of Christian Scripture in all matters of faith and practice.
A Commitment to a Healthy Confessional Center — We call upon all Southern Baptists to look to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 as a sufficient guide for building a theological consensus for partnership in the gospel, refusing to be sidetracked by theological agendas that distract us from our Lord’s Commission.
A Commitment to Biblically Healthy Churches — We call upon all Southern Baptists to focus on building local churches that are thoroughly orthodox, distinctively Baptist, and passionately committed to the Great Commission.
A Commitment to Sound Biblical Preaching — We call upon all Southern Baptists to affirm and expect a pastoral ministry that is characterized by faithful biblical preaching that teaches both the content of the Scriptures and the theology embedded in the Scriptures.
A Commitment to a Methodological Diversity that is Biblically Informed — We call upon all Southern Baptists to consider themselves and their churches to be missionaries in non-Christian cultures, each of which requires unique strategies and emphases if the gospel is to penetrate and saturate every community in North America.
A Commitment to a More Effective Convention Structure — We call upon all Southern Baptists to rethink our Convention structure and priorities so that we can maximize our energy and resources for the health of our local churches and the fulfilling of the Great Commission.
A Commitment to Distinctively Christian Families — We call upon all Southern Baptists to build gospel-saturated homes that see children as a gift from God and as our first and primary missions field.
To read the full declaration, visit www.thealabamabaptist.org.
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