• The research showed that among pastors of Southern Baptist churches who are recent SBC seminary graduates, 29 percent indicated they are Calvinists.
• Ed Stetzer, missiologist for Lifeway Research, said 27 percent of 1,234 recent seminary graduate respondents serving in SBC church leadership positions "somewhat agree" or "strongly agree" that they are five-point Calvinists.  
  • Sixty-seven percent affirmed that God's "grace is irresistible" 
  • Fifty-eight percent said they believe "people do not choose to become Christians, God chooses and calls people who respond to him." 
• Both Calvinistic and non-Calvinistic churches believe that local congregations should be involved in sponsoring missions and planting new churches.
  • The study showed 95 percent of both types of Southern Baptists affirmed the necessity of missions and church planting.

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