For 30 years, CBF North Carolina has provided a place of refuge, belonging and “family” for countless displaced Baptist Christians and churches. Founded as the North Carolina expression of the larger Cooperative Baptist Fellowship community, CBFNC has championed cooperation in mission and ministry in the context of Baptist freedoms: soul freedom, Bible freedom, church freedom and religious freedom.
As evidenced by recent events, we live in a time in which the dominant form of Baptist faith in our nation and state is legalistic and restrictive in theology and practice. CBFNC has preserved a “free and faithful” way to be Baptist, with a particular North Carolina flair, as it has pursued the mission of “bringing Baptists of North Carolina together for Christ-centered ministry.” Countless individuals have found their “home” here, in this communal expression of Cooperative Baptist faith in North Carolina.
We commend to you this statement from Paul Baxley, CBF executive coordinator, describing the larger Cooperative Baptist movement of which we are part. We join with Paul in offering an invitation to explore our fellowship as a place of community, cooperation, worship and witness.
