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Southern Baptists debate ways to revive growth: Teen baptisms dropping

Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt has urged members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to move beyond their comfort zones as they seek new ways to evangelize and combat declining baptism rates.

“I’m tired of having my membership in a convention that’s declining,” he said in a presidential address on June 15, the opening day of the two-day SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

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