[3] The organization which developed was renamed Founders Ministries in 1998.

[5] According to Nathan Finn, non-Calvinists within the Southern Baptist Convention "seem to be especially concerned with the influence of Founders Ministries.

"[6] Critics argue that Southern Baptists have never been Calvinistic.

Tom Ascol, Executive Director of Founders Ministries, stated a majority of the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845 held to the doctrines of grace.

Ascol, Voddie Baucham, and Tom Nettles were the founding faculty.