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Article: From Colporteurs to cooperative program: a century of Southern Baptist stewardship and the rise of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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- Baptist History and Heritage
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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"Throughout the twentieth-century," claimed historian Bill J. Leonard, "Southern Baptists ... devoted more attention to Christian stewardship than perhaps to any other issue except evangelism and missions.
Even those powerful themes have frequently been placed within the all-encompassing context of stewardship." The same could be said of the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) entire history. Stewardship issues in the mid-nineteenth century were catalysts that, combined with others, helped Southern Baptists define their distinctive qualifies as a denomination: radical congregationalism, independence, and cooperation. Southern Baptists cited stewardship, not ...