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I generally lurk these days but I had to chime in on this one as it is near and dear to my heart. YES there are some reformed SBC churches out there and more pastors. If you'll do a little digging on the Founders site you'll find a state by state list of churches that are 'Founder's Friendly' which generally means the pastor has a reformed view of theology or less often the church itself holds to a reformed confession (the list shows this as well.) I think the 9Marks website (associated with Mark Dever) has a similar list as well that is associated with a map. There are a few other lists as well.

Let me add this little note about SBC polity, you don't MAKE a Southern Baptist Church do anything. The Convention isn't like a Catholic diocese or whatever that has direct authority over the churches, they are all pretty well autonomous and everything is done by majority rule. No official elders as a general rule except in those churches with at least a reformed history of some kind.

The churches in the convention are connected by 'cooperation', more than anything. What that means is that they will have a heck of a time convincing anyone to disfellowship a church even for doctrinal reasons which is why we have churches all through the spectrum from Saddleback to Dever's church in Washington, D.C.

As for a new denomination, I don't know if it will fall out like that or not Pete. These reformed types are pretty hard headed. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />