In the dialogue about “ex-SBC” folks that’s been transpiring on this site in recent weeks, a false assumption seeps in from time to time: That all “ex” Southern Baptists are now affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. As if there were only two choices available.
Not so. Some congregations have affiliated instead with the American Baptist Churches in the USA, with the Alliance of Baptists — or with no group at all. And even among those who connect in name with a denominational body, a number of larger congregations have fallen further into themselves. They are what we might consider a new breed of independent Baptist churches.
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