FIRST-PERSON: What is the secret to the Southern Baptist Convention?
What is the secret to realistically cultivating a spirit of cooperation across such a diverse Convention?
FIRST-PERSON: It’s the people
One of my favorite lines in all of literature is a humorous and somewhat cryptic speech delivered by Bilbo Baggins during his eleventy-first birthday party: “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
FIRST-PERSON: An EC that lives for Christ
NASHVILLE (BP) – On October 5, 2021, the Executive Committee, as we knew it, died.
FIRST-PERSON: We don’t need a Conservative Resurgence, but a Great Commission Revolution
ARLINGTON, Texas (BP) -- When it comes to the Conservative Resurgence, most agree the shot heard around the Convention was the “Genesis Controversy,” in which a former seminary professor authored a commentary arguing for a mythological interpretation of Genesis 1-11. This launched the battle for inerrancy, a conviction that the Bible is without error.
