Journal: Central Bible Quarterly
Volume: CENQ 01:4 (Winter 1958)
Article: Questions and Answers About Conservative Baptists
Author: G. Archer Weniger

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CenQ 1:4 (Winter 1958) p. 17

Questions and Answers About Conservative Baptists

G. Archer Weniger, D.D.

Revised August, 1958

General Information

1. How old is the Conservative Baptist Association? The CBA was launched provisionally in 1947 in Atlantic City, with a permanently adopted constitution in 1948 in Milwaukee.
2. How did the CBA begin? It began as a reform movement within the Northern (American) Baptist Convention, but because of failure to bring the Convention back to the faith after 25 years’ endeavor, the CBA was brought into existence as a New Testament testimony. The Biblical instruction is to “purge out the old leaven” (of unbelief). Having failed, the Fundamentalists withdrew in obedience to the Scriptures to “come out from among them” (II Cor. 6:17).
3. Why was the CBA brought into existence? Two statements from “The CBA—Its Mission” can answer: “To provide a fellowship of churches and individuals upon a thoroughly Biblical and historically Baptistic basis, unmixed with liberals and those who are content to walk in fellowship with unbelief and inclusivism. ... To present a positive testimony to the New Testament faith and historic Baptist principles as a body of churches before the world, religious or otherwise; and to oppose departure and deviation from the great foundational truths of the Word of God.”
4. How many churches are identified with the CBA now? Across the nation a total of nearly 1,200 churches have applied for affiliation in both state and national groups in eight short years. Each church has had a strugge in its soul to come to this position.
5. Who is the leading executive officer of the CBA of A? The General Director is Dr. B. Myron Cedarholm, 2561 North Clark Street, Chicago 14, 111. Dr. Cedarholm holds degrees from University of Minnesota, Eastern Baptist Seminary, and Princeton Seminary. He is a thorough-going separationist, premillenarian, and Baptistic evangelist.
6. Have all CBA churches in America withdrawn from the ABC? Of the 1,200 churches less than half have come from the American Baptist Convention through withdrawing fellowship, but these established churches form the hard core of the CBA.
7. From where did the other churches come? A good percentage of unaffiliated Baptist churches have identified. Another large source of affiliates have been the fundamental factions within ABC churches withdrawing to form new churches. Several undenominational “Bible” churches practicing Baptist polity have sought identification with the CBA. Perhaps the largest single group of churches are the new ones which have been enthusiastically founded by home-missionary-minded pastors and churches—a total of more than 400 founded since the CBA was launched.
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