FIRST-PERSON: How Southern Baptists spoke with one voice
When SBC President Clint Pressley asked me to chair this year’s Resolutions Committee, I hesitated. Anyone familiar with the resolutions process at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting understands why. Resolutions can serve as instruments of conviction or, just as easily, catalysts for controversy. Nuanced theological concerns, amendments from the floor, and the challenge of striking the right tone – all of it makes the process delicate and, at times, daunting.
FIRST-PERSON: What does it mean to be the Southern Baptist Convention (rather than a Southern Baptist Denomination)?
I have an embarrassing admission to make. Before I tell you what the admission is, let me set it in context for how common my error most likely is among other Southern Baptists.
FIRST-PERSON: Does justice or profit drive abortion?
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) – By now, the controversy in Texas over the Supreme Court allowing its near total ban on abortion to take effect has become part of the public ether. For some, the current moment offers a foretaste of what a post-Roe world could look like.
FIRST-PERSON: Beshear administration discriminating against Kentucky Baptist adoption provider
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) – In some major news on Thursday (May 6), headlines in the Louisville Courier-Journal reported that the Commonwealth of Kentucky under Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration ended its contract with the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Sunrise Children’s Services.
FIRST-PERSON: From Adrian Rogers to Millennials who count the cost
Andrew Walker, a Millennial who hadn't been born when Adrian Rogers was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, assesses the costs Millennials face in holding to a biblical faith.
COOPERATING FOR THE GOSPEL Churches Embrace, Highlight Cooperative Program
Northeast Church, Braselton, Georgia Russ Harbin, pastor of Northeast Church in Braselton, Georgia, came to see the importance of the Cooperative Program through the merger of two churches into the one he currently pastors. Harbin became pastor of Hoschton Baptist in Braselton in January 2010. Located just down the road was Zion Baptist Church, a […]
Dockery: Calvinism has roots in SBC history
CRESTWOOD, Ky. (BP) -- Calvinism isn't a recent phenomenon in Southern Baptist life but instead has deep roots in its history, Union University President David S. Dockery said Saturday (Aug. 4) at a conference on the issue.
Dockery: Calvinism has roots in SBC history
CRESTWOOD, Ky. (BP) -- Calvinism isn't a recent phenomenon in Southern Baptist life but instead has deep roots in its history, Union University President David S. Dockery said Saturday (Aug. 4) at a conference on the issue.
CP Booth to Express Appreciation, Show Support, Highlight “Many Faces” of SBC
The Southern Baptist Convention’s mission work, ethnic diversity, and vast network of cooperation will be on display at a fifteen hundred square foot Cooperative Program booth in the exhibit hall at this year’s annual meeting in New Orleans. On a platform stage area, visitors to the CP booth will see approximately thirty interviews […]
Central Baptist Church: Model Church, not Mega-Church
Central Baptist Church has been a vital component of its neighborhood since its founding in 1950. And its impact for God's Kingdom has proven immeasurable.
