2012 Executive Committee Actions
The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention recommends to the Southern Baptist Convention that those churches, entities and organizations in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention which may desire to utilize a descriptor other than the term “Southern Baptists” to indicate their relationship with each other and their involvement in the Southern Baptist Convention and its ministries, consider using the descriptor “Great Commission Baptists,” a phrase commended as one fully in keeping with our Southern Baptist Convention identity.
Southern Baptist Convention Name Change – (See Recommendation 3, page 33.) In February 2012, the Executive Committee adopted a recommendation to report to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 19-20, 2012, that it declined to develop a plan and implementation strategy for the adoption of a new legal name for the Southern Baptist Convention for all the reasons mentioned in the report issued on February 20, 2012, by the SBC president’s name change task force, as well as those in the 1999 report of the Executive Committee on the same subject.
