CP giving shapes and empowers SBC seminaries to make gospel impact • Biblical Recorder

CP giving shapes and empowers SBC seminaries to make gospel impact

Editor’s note: Southern Baptists are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program throughout 2025. NASHVILLE (BP)—Like missions, theological education was on the hearts and minds of Southern Baptists from before the Convention’s founding in 1845. Baptist colleges that sprang up across the South in the early 1800s provided studies in theological subjects, proof of Baptists’ commitment in the South. But the mid-century split with n…

CP giving shapes and empowers SBC seminaries to make gospel impact • Biblical Recorder

NASHVILLE (BP) — Like missions, theological education was on the hearts and minds of Southern Baptists from before the convention’s founding in 1845. Baptist colleges that sprang up across the South in the early 1800s provided studies in theological subjects, proof of Baptists’ commitment in the South. But the mid-century split with northern Baptists meant the young convention would no longer use northern seminaries to train its pastors. Souther…