Founders Ministries, previously known as the Southern Baptist Founders Conference, is a

Reformed Baptist Reformed Baptists (sometimes known as Particular Baptists or Calvinistic Baptists) are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation). The first Calvinist Baptist church was formed in the 1630s. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith ...

group within the

Southern Baptist Convention The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination, and the largest Protestant and second-largest Christian denomination in the United States. The wor ...

in the United States. Its goal is to return Southern Baptists to their roots, and it has contributed to the

Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence Beginning in 1979, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) experienced an intense struggle for control of the organization. Its initiators called it the conservative resurgenceHefley, James C.''The Truth in Crisis: The Conservative Resurgence in the ...

. The executive director is

Thomas Ascol Thomas K. (Tom) Ascol is an Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, Christian pastor, author, and president of Founders Ministries. He is currently the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, Cape Coral, Florida, where he h ...

. The Southern Baptist Founders Conference was established in 1982, holding its first annual conference in 1983. The organization which developed was renamed Founders Ministries in 1998. As of 2007, there were 807 subscribing congregations in the United States. According to Nathan Finn, non-Calvinists within the Southern Baptist Convention "seem to be especially concerned with the influence of Founders Ministries." Critics argue that Southern Baptists have never been Calvinistic. Tom Ascol, Executive Director of Founders Ministries, stated a majority of the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845 held to the

doctrines of grace Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calv ...

. Founders Ministries has operated Founders Press since 1983, and publishes ''Founders Journal'', a quarterly journal established in 1990.

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* {{official website, http://founders.org/ Christian organizations established in 1982 Calvinist organizations established in the 20th century Baptist organizations established in the 20th century 1982 establishments in the United States