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{{Southern Baptists}}
The '''Arizona Southern Baptist Convention''' ('''ASBC''') is an autonomous association of [[Baptist]] churches in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Arizona]]. It is one of the [[List of state and other conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention|state conventions associated with the Southern/Great Commission Baptists]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.sbc.net/stateconvention.asp?state=AZ | publisher= Southern Baptist Convention | accessdate=2010-08-25 | title=State Conventions and Local Associations: Arizona| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100826010533/http://www.sbc.net/stateconvention.asp?state=AZ| archivedate= 26 August 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
==History==
The ASBC was officially formed in 1928 but its origins lie some years earlier when the division between the Arizona Baptist Convention and the [[Northern Baptist Convention]] — particularly in respect to segregation and other racial issues — created the same unbridgeable divide that slavery had caused between the ASBC and the NBC in the mid 19th century. By March 1917, a group of Baptists who objected to the northern positions on segregation and the intermingling of racial groups decided to leave the [[First Baptist Church (Phoenix, Arizona)|First Baptist Church of Phoenix]] and form the Calvary Baptist Church of Phoenix. That year, C. M. Rock, an ASBC pastor from [[Asheville, North Carolina]] was sent to help establish the ASBC’s presence in Arizona.  On March 27, 1921, with Rock as their pastor, a group of people left the Calvary Baptist Church to form the First Southern Baptist Church, as a protest against the Northern Convention's stances on [[open communion]], alien immersion, and interdenominational comity.  In August of the same year, this new church joined the Southwestern Baptist Association of New Mexico.<ref name=Baker1980 /><ref name=Fletcher1994 />
On September 21, 1928, Rock led the formation of the '''Baptist General Convention of Arizona'''. In May 1929, this was associated with the Southern Baptist Convention.<ref name=Baker1980 />  It retained the name Baptist General Convention of Arizona until 1961, when it changed its name to the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention.<ref>Pair, C. L. ''A history of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, 1928–1984''. Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, 1989, p. 239.</ref>
As of 2010 there were 404 Southern Baptist congregations in Arizona, with 126,830 adherents; this is the third most congregations of all religious body in the state, fourth most adherents, and 27th by average adherents per congregation.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/s/04/rcms2010_04_state_name_2010.asp
|title=State Membership Report: Arizona
|publisher=The Association of Religion Data Archives
|access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref>
== Affiliated organizations ==
*Arizona Baptist Children's Services
*Arizona Campus of [[Gateway Seminary]]
*Arizona Christian Challenge
*Arizona Woman's Missionary Union
*Historical Commission, AZSBC
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book|author=C. L. Pair|title=A history of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, 1928&ndash;1984|publisher=Arizona Southern Baptist Convention|year=1989}}
* {{Cite encyclopaedia|article=Arizona Southern Baptist Convention|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists|volume=4|publisher=Broadman Press|date=1982|isbn=978-0-8054-6556-3|pages=2087}}
== See also ==
* [[Baptist Foundation of Arizona]]
== References ==
<references>
<ref name=Baker1980>{{cite book|title=Relations between Northern and Southern Baptists|series=Baptist tradition|author=Robert Andrew Baker|publisher=Ayer Publishing|year=1980|isbn= 978-0-405-12457-0|pages=201&ndash;203}}</ref>
<ref name=Fletcher1994>{{cite book|title=The Southern Baptist Convention: a sesquicentennial history|author=Jesse C. Fletcher|publisher=Broadman & Holman|year=1994|isbn= 978-0-8054-1167-6|pages=160}}</ref>
</references>
==External links==
* {{Official website}}
{{Southern Baptist State Conventions and Other Affiliates |state=autocollapse}}
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[[Category:1928 establishments in Arizona]]