(ChurchLeaders) ong before this summer’s ramped-up racial conversations and unrest, America’s largest Protestant denomination had been wrestling with its name. Now the group still officially known as the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is making moves toward a new identity, one that replaces a regional and cultural element with a biblical one.
Back in 2012, SBC representatives approved the use of “Great Commission Baptists” as an unofficial or “doing business as” name. The denomination’s 50,000-plus autonomous churches can choose for themselves which name to use.