What is it like growing up in a southern baptist church?

Hell. Southern Baptists believe that the Bible is literally the Word of God. Inerrant. The six-day creation? That's how God did it. Tower of Babel, Flood, Jonah and the Whale? A talking donkey? Real science and real history. Dancing? No. read more

The concern Baptists have about any “ritual observances” is that they will become just something we do–like taking a shower every day or brushing our teeth–and that in so doing, we will miss the forest for the trees. read more

Southern Baptists — like all orthodox Christians — believe in a coming Day of Judgment. Like Jesus and John the Baptist, we warn people of the eternal consequences of their spiritual decisions. But some think that Southern Baptists think the judgment of God is reserved for people who don’t believe or behave like we do. That’s far from true. read more