2011: SBC Annual Meeting Roundup

PHOENIX (BP)–Pastors are responsible to lead their churches to engage the world’s unreached people groups with the Gospel, David Platt said in the convention sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting June 15. Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., noted that people groups by the thousands worldwide are unreached […]

PHOENIX (BP)–Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention were reminded of the importance of theological education through reports from the convention’s six seminaries during the June 14-15 gathering in Phoenix: GOLDEN GATE — A school like Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary would not exist in America’s West apart from the support of […]

PHOENIX (BP)–Missionaries and chaplains, a U.S. Army general, a barber, two tornado victims and a redeemed young man mirrored the work of the North American Mission Board during its report to messengers June 14 at the 2011 SBC annual meeting. “Knowing there are 318 million people in North America who need to know Jesus Christ […]

PHOENIX (BP)–The North American Mission Board rolled out its Send North America strategy to a packed house of pastors during a June 13 luncheon at the SBC Pastors’ Conference. At least 1,000 pastors and their wives attended the luncheon, which featured NAMB President Kevin Ezell, LifeWay vice president Ed Stetzer and a surprise appearance by […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (BP)–Traditional marriage took a triple blow Tuesday, when one court refused to toss out the anti-Prop 8 ruling, another court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act and — in the legislative realm — the New York Senate moved one vote away from passing a landmark “gay marriage” bill. It was difficult to know […]

PHOENIX (BP)–A coalition of homosexual leaders and their allies met for more than 30 minutes June 15 with Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright, with the leaders demanding an apology from the SBC and Wright refusing to budge, saying that Scripture is clear on the issue. The remarkable meeting — cordial the entire time — […]

PHOENIX (BP)--Attendance at the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 14-15 slumped below 5,000 for several reasons, registration officials said.

PHOENIX (BP)--Bryant Wright, pastor of the Atlanta-area Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, was re-elected June 14 to a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, leading a slate of officers that included an African American as first vice president.

PHOENIX (BP)--Messengers addressed the thorny issue of immigration by adopting a resolution that sought to promote the gospel of Jesus while calling for justice and compassion during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, June 14-15 in Phoenix.

PHOENIX (BP)–While the number of evangelicals in the United States is rising, the moral health of the nation continues to falter, Richard Land told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 14. In his report to the convention, Land, president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the ERLC continues to […]