Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia

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Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia
2007 Homecoming Theme: Pushing Back the Darkness (Acts 26:15-18)
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Baptist
Polity	Congregationalist
Origin	September 16, 1996 Richmond, Virginia
Separated from	Baptist General Association of Virginia
Geographical Area	Virginia
Congregations	511 (as of November 12, 2007)

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The Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (SBC of Virginia, or SBCV) is a fellowship of 511 conservative Southern Baptist churches in Virginia and in surrounding areas. It is supportive of the national Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It was formed in 1993 when conservative Virginia Baptists across the state founded the SBCV fellowship. On September 16, 1996, messengers that met at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia voted for the fellowship to become a new Southern Baptist state convention.^[1] On October 1, 1996, the SBC Executive Committee officially acknowledged SBCV as a new State Convention.

1 Objectives
2 Doctrinal Position
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Objectives

The Southern Baptist Coservatives of Virginia's objectives flow out of the convention's Purpose Statement and Core Values. They set the parameters for what the convention does, hold the convention accountable, and help the convention write goals and action plans. The SBCV strives to start new churches, strengthen existing churches in the state, and support pastors, staff and their families.^[2]

[edit] Doctrinal Position

The Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia believes that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, and is sufficient as the only infallible rule of faith and practice. The SBCV deny that other books are inspired by God in the same way as the Bible. The SBCV is committed to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 with the clarification of inerrancy as described above. The doctrinal position of the SBCV is not binding upon any local church; however, the convention recognized its right and responsibility to determine its identity, including doctrinal parameters, and to include within its affiliation those individual affiliates and churches who can freely agree with it, and to exclude those individuals or churches who do not.^[3]