Mohler agrees with amendment to Baptist Faith and Message, shares concern about process
NASHVILLE (BP) – A leading voice in the SBC believes the amendment to the Baptist Faith and Message made by messengers to the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting helps clarify what Southern Baptists believe about the office of pastor. But R. Albert Mohler Jr. has some concerns about the way the amendment was made.
Collegiate leaders talk discipleship at Historically Black colleges, universities
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Ministering on the campus of Historically Black Colleges and Universities comes with a unique set of challenges and opportunities for discipleship.
Resolution on AI, emerging technologies intended to be timely statement
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – With artificial intelligence becoming an increasingly hot-button issue and other technologies being developed at a rapid rate, representatives from the 2023 SBC Committee on Resolutions hope the resolution “On Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies,” will serve as a “timely” statement on the topic.
Haitian pastors establish new ethnic fellowship, elect leaders
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – When Miami pastor Keny Felix reads of the great multitude in Revelation 7:9, he envisions a certain beauty.
Juan Sanchez discusses Constitutional amendment on office of pastor
NASHVILLE (BP) – Texas pastor Juan Sanchez believes Southern Baptists can walk and chew gum at the same. Sanchez led the way for messengers at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting to affirm the first reading of an amendment to the SBC Constitution that would include a statement saying only men can serve in the role of pastor or elder in a cooperating church.
Resolution honors women’s key role in fulfilling the Great Commission
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Scripture records women’s work in the Old and New Testaments, detailing the work of midwives, prophetesses, warriors, a judge, teachers, mothers and others.
Resolution on gender transitions aims to ‘balance grace and truth’
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The 2023 SBC Committee on Resolutions hopes the resolution “On Opposing Gender Transitions”, accurately represents Southern Baptists’ views on one of modern culture’s most pervasive and controversial issues.
SBC evangelists celebrate Cajun Jubilee during Annual Meeting
NEW ORLEANS – About 200 people gathered June 12 in the Riverside Room of Hampton Inn Convention Center for a Cajun Jubilee hosted by COSBE, the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists.
Resolution on care, support for pastors and ministry leaders aims to ease their burden
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The reality of both internal and external struggles for church leaders served as the impetus for a committee-generated resolution affirming and seeking to improve the spiritual, physical, mental and emotional well-being of pastors and other ministry leaders.
Seasoned pastors can play key role for younger pastors, panelists say
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – How can a seasoned pastor invest in the ministry of an emerging pastor? A group of SBC pastors and leaders discussed the importance of healthy relationship dynamics between the two groups during a panel on the CP stage during the SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
