SOUTHERN BAPTISTS Common misunderstanding the phrase “Southern Baptist” is that there is a person who is a Baptist who also lives in the south. However this is not true. Southern Baptist describes a religious denomination, not a geographic area. At first, Southern Baptists occupied the southern region of the United States, however they now have spread throughout all fifty states. They do mission work all over the world which makes them quite a global people …showed first 75 words of 589 total…

…showed last 75 words of 589 total…and to the church. From their beginnings, Southern Baptists have valued the freedom of the individual before God. They place a high priority on the authority of the Bible and they have insisted on the right of each church to govern itself. Southern Baptists are quite a diverse people, but they have worked together to carry out Christian education, evangelism, missions, and many other types of ministries in the United States and around the world.