‘Spiritual walls in America have crumbled,’ Steve Gaines says in convention sermon
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Like Nehemiah of the Old Testament, Southern Baptists should be wall builders, Steve Gaines, pastor of First Baptist Church in Gardendale, Ala., declared to the Southern Baptist Convention June 16.
Ala. pastor to lead SBC Pastors’ Conference
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Members of the SBC Pastors' Conference elected Steve Gaines, pastor of First Baptist Church in Gardendale, Ala., as the group's president during their annual meeting at the Indianapolis Convention Center June 13.
Luke was Jewish, speaker tells Messianic fellowship
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--The Book of Hebrews was likely written by Luke who was Jewish -- not gentile as is widely believed, David L. Allen, professor of preaching at Criswell College, told members of the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship.
Criteria for church membership in Fla. convention recounted
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Many Southern Baptists don't really understand the true relationships between their SBC ministries, state conventions, associations and local congregations, said John Sullivan, executive director of the Florida Baptist Convention.
Grand Canyon bookstore reorders 300-plus copies of book
PHOENIX (BP)--Officials at the Grand Canyon National Park have ordered additional copies of "Grand Canyon: A Different View" -- a hardcover book of photos and essays advocating creation science and being sold in the park's bookstores.
Protests hit Grand Canyon book with creation science essays
PHOENIX (BP)--Secular scientists have taken aim at the National Park Service for a book advocating creation science available at Grand Canyon bookstores.
Baptist Faith & Message Committee members say report embraces biblical authority
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--In adopting the report of the Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee, Southern Baptists embraced biblical authority and rejected a theology that divides Christ and the Bible one from another.
Speakers see Jewish role in end times, countering ‘two-covenant theol
NEW YORK (BP)–The Jewish people will play a critical role during events leading to the second coming of Christ, declared speakers during “To the Jew First in the New Millennium: A Conference on Jewish Evangelism,” Sept. 23-25 at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan. Paige Patterson, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, described his beliefs about […]
Christians have obligation to Jews, Patterson says in New York City
NEW YORK (BP)–Christians are obliged to evangelize Jewish people and to do so with respectfulness and confidence in the truth of the gospel, said two Southern Baptists who participated in “To the Jew First in the New Millennium: A Conference on Jewish Evangelism,” Sept. 23-25, at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan. “We do have an […]
Salvation offered ‘to the Jew first,’ speakers say, citing Bibl
NEW YORK (BP)–Christians should give priority to evangelizing Jews and they should do so with cultural sensitivity, said speakers during “To the Jew First in the New Millennium: A Conference on Jewish Evangelism,” Sept. 23-25 at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, director of Ariel Ministries, Tustin, Calif., referred conferees to the Bible verse […]
