Foundations Baptist Fellowship International
Foundations Baptist Fellowship International | |
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Conservative Baptist Association of America | |
Other name(s) | Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International |
Official website | fbfi |
The Foundations Baptist Fellowship International (FBFI), formerly the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International, is a fellowship of
History
The roots of FBFI can be traced to the Fundamental Fellowship of Northern Baptists. The Fundamental Fellowship was organized in 1920 as the National Federation of Fundamentalists of the Northern Baptists, during the
This continued into the 1940s, when fundamentalists organized the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1943 in protest of liberal policies of NBC's foreign mission society. In 1946 the Fundamentalist Fellowship changed its name to Conservative Baptist Fellowship and was instrumental in organizing the
In 1967, the Conservative Baptist Fellowship broke all ties with the
Organization
The FBFI is a fellowship of individuals who agree with the Statement of Faith and purposes of the Fellowship. The chief purposes of the Fellowship are to strengthen and promote historic fundamentalism, to defend the faith while exposing and opposing religious compromise, to promote religious liberty and to lead in evangelism and church growth.
The FBFI has three main points of emphasis: national and regional meetings, a magazine, and the chaplaincy. Frontline magazine, the journal of the Fellowship, is published six times per year. The FBFI is accredited by the
Offices are in Taylors, South Carolina.[2] The FBFI is organized into 13 regional fellowships - Alaska Region, Northern California, Southern California, Mid-America, Mid-Atlantic, South, North Central, Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, South Central, Caribbean, and International. In 1995 individual members of the FBFI were related to 402 different independent Baptist churches. 142 of these 402 churches were also aligned with other fundamentalist groups.
Maranatha Baptist University, Bob Jones University, and several other colleges are closely related to the FBFI.
The FBFI is sometimes confused with the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association (FBFA) which is based in Kansas.[3]
References
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- Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
- Dictionary of Baptists in America, Bill J. Leonard, editor