Are Southern Baptists evangelicals?
Of course Southern Baptists are evangelicals. We believe in sharing the “good news” that God loves us so much He came personally to redeem us and draw us back to Himself. Undergoing great suffering in human form He took the sin of each of us upon His shoulders, and defeated sin and death that we might live abundantly in Him. We believe it is important to tell, hear and respond to that truth because salvation comes only through knowing Christ. That’s what evangelicals believe, right? So we are some, right? Well, yes. And maybe. Nathan Finn, assistant professor of church history and Baptist studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, raised the question at the conference and then talked about why it jjust might be valid to ask it. It may be legitimate to ask not because Baptists have changed our euangelion perspective, but because now so many groups with theologies that make Southern Baptists squirm self-identify as “evangelicals” that the term may have lost its value as a desc
