Steve Gaines (pastor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American pastor
Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1957
Place of Birth: Corinth, Mississippi, United States
Profession: pastor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Steve Gaines (pastor)
- John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor, and the 61st President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- He is currently serving at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention.
- On Sunday, July 10, 2005 the Pastor Search Committee of Bellevue Baptist Church presented Dr.
- Steve Gaines to the church congregation.
- At the conclusion of the services the Bellevue family overwhelmingly voted to call Steve Gaines as the seventh Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church.
- Gaines succeeds the longtime Bellevue pastor Adrian Rogers. Before arriving at Bellevue Baptist, Gaines pastored for 14 years at the Gardendale First Baptist Church, an 8,500-member church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.
- There he became one of the leading voices in the conservative wing of the SBC.
- In 2004, Gaines was elected president of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, and was the keynote speaker at the SBC annual meeting in Nashville.
- He served with his predecessor at Bellevue and three-time SBC president, Adrian Rogers, on a committee charged with revising The Baptist Faith and Message.
- The document, which is the primary doctrinal statement for all SBC agencies, including its six seminaries and International Mission Board, was adopted by the SBC in 2000.
- On March 9, 2016, Dr.
- Johnny Hunt announced he would nominate Gaines to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention at the upcoming SBC annual meeting in St.
- Louis, Missouri.
- He was elected, and was then re-elected for a second one-year term at the 2017 annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.Gaines' theology is best described as conservative and evangelical.
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