Below is a comprehensive collection of Baptist Press’ coverage of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. The reports and columns are subdivided into categories. Click on a headline to read the article.
GCR TASK FORCE DECLARATION
- GCR: Signers of document say ‘Great Commission Resurgence’ needed
- GCR: Tone, focus, clarity of declaration questioned by non-signers
- GCR: Merge mission boards, chairman of North American Mission Board says
- GCR: GPS rally cry will unite Southern Baptists around Great Commission
- GCR: My bloated bureaucracy
- GCR: ‘Great Commission Resurgence’ needs Great Commission partners
- GCR: Akin discusses its history, intent
- Hunt: SBC needed ‘shock’ of GCR declaration
- Vines signs GCR declaration ‘with caveats’
- Hunt responds to GCR critics; Predicts SBC will OK task force
- SBC President Hunt urges ‘personal Great Commission resurgence’
- Prayer requested for GCR/execs meeting
- FIRST-PERSON (Gerald Harris): GCR myths and transparency
- FIRST-PERSON (Danny Sinquefield): EKG is vital to resurgence
GCRTF VOTE; MEMBERS & PROFILES
- Hunt names GCR task force members
- GCR task force overwhelmingly approved
- Hunt expresses urgency about Great Commission
- Motions: GCR task force endorsed
- WRAP-UP: SBC green-lights Great Commission Task Force
- Johnny Hunt adds 4 to GCR task force
- PROFILES: GCR task force members
GCRTF MEETINGS
- GCR task force leaders engage students
- GCR task force to meet twice in August
- Great Commission, not ‘old wars,’ will be focus of GCR task force, chairman says
- GCR website goes live at pray4gcr.com
- GCR Task Force chairman encouraged, burdened after group’s initial meeting
- GCR’s Floyd: Take ‘honest look’ at SBC
- GCR task force quizzed on range of topics
- GCR task force calls for input, prayer
- Ronnie Floyd holds Q&A session on GCR
- GCR Task Force making ‘enormous progress,’ chairman Floyd says
- GCR task force to issue progress report
- Floyd: IMB/NAMB merger not in GCR plan
- GCRTF: Strategy change a must for SBC
- GCR Task Force members, state execs meet
- GCRTF chair: CP ‘central, preferred conduit;’ Survey response: 77% would vote ‘no’
- Floyd says GCRTF 100% and that GC-driven Southern Baptists will support report
- Panel recaps GCR prior to May 3 report
STATE LEADERS ADDRESS GCRTF
- State execs offer GCRTF their vision, views about SBC
- Hankins: Cooperation ‘key’ to resurgence; offers strategy to strengthen CP
- FIRST-PERSON (Joseph Bunce): GCR report — more questions than answers
- GCR report could put new work conventions ‘out of business,’ Mont. exec. says
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: ‘It would devastate us,’ Ala. evangelism director says
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Iowa executive director, ‘Before writing us off…’
- GBC asks GCRTF to strengthen CP wording
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Calif. president & exec. bd. chairman support ‘bold new measures’
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Ill. exec. on the challenges of a Great Commission Resurgence
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Cooperation missing — states excluded except to raise funds for national entities
- GCR could trigger ministry cuts in Mo.
- Ga. EC vote: CP ‘historical and proven’
- Western execs concerned about GCR report
- SBC-Va. leaders issue open letter to GCRTF
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Kan.-Neb. exec. concerned about proposal
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Byron Day): Pill too big to swallow?
- Hankins comments on GCRTF session with state execs
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (David Tolliver): Receive all information; take honest look at ramifications
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Terry Robertson): Denominational employees should stop defending … a paycheck
- Ky. board: Cooperative Program ‘essential’
- La. exec assesses GCRTF final report
GCRTF PRESS RELEASES
- Great Commission Task Force chairman issues call for 5,000 prayer volunteers
- GCR chairman speaks to myths about work
- SBC PRESIDENT: Jan. 31, a day of prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention
- GCR chairman: ‘difficult decisions ahead’
- Jan. 31 prayer day crucial, GCR’s Floyd says
- GCRTF NEWS: 4 new endorsements announced
- GCR report gets 5 new endorsements
- GCRTF issues ‘Seven Points of Prayer’
- GCRTF NEWS: Graham, Sullivan among 5 new GCR endorsers
GCRTF INTERIM REPORT AND REACTIONS
- GCR Task Force releases progress report at EC
- Big changes in store for NAMB, states conventions under GCR proposal
- GCR Task Force process discussed
- NAMB chairman responds to GCR proposals
- New paradigms needed, Rankin says
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Al Mohler on state cooperative agreements
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Glen Land on state cooperative agreements
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Danny Akin on GCRTF report
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Scott Brewer on GCRTF report
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Bob White on new name for SBC giving
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Norman Jameson on new name for SBC giving
- NAMB revises data to GCRTF
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Glen Land on Cooperative Agreements & accountability
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: NAMB, cooperative agreements essential for church planting & DR
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Be more radical; shut down NAMB, keep DR
- White paper details history of CP & stewardship promotion in SBC
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Seminaries lost more CP ‘purchasing power’ than state conventions
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: First draft has wineskins but not wine
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Observations of an evangelist
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: What does Scripture say?
- FIRST-PERSON: Three questions for the GCR task force
- Floyd replies to ‘3 questions’ article
- Paper provides ‘Just the Facts’ about SBC structure, methodology & finance
- Delay GCR til 2011, Mo. board urges
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Kenneth S. Hemphill): Our need is deeper than structural changes
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Kenneth S. Hemphill): Valuing the work of state conventions
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Ken Hemphill): The solution is more sacrificial giving
- Q&A: EC’s Chapman discusses proposed cut
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry): IMB deserves support, but gutting EC not wise
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry) : CP — what has changed in 4 years?
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Jimmy Epting): EKG thrust, CP support & GCR report
GCRTF DRAFT FINAL REPORT AND REACTIONS
- GCR Task Force lists 7 recommendations
- GCRTF issues ‘draft’ final report; substance of changes from progress report varies
- Task force report includes ‘challenges’
- GCRTF members discuss final report
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Les Puryear): The ‘hypocrisy’ of ‘Great Commission Giving’
- SBC EC’s Chapman states ‘grave concerns’ about harm to SBC’s Cooperative Program
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Larry Lewis): Task force recommendations not good for SBC
- GCR plan not a threat to CP, Floyd asserts
- As NAMB goes, so goes SBC, Driggers says
- FIRST-PERSON: GCR: Compelling Southern Baptists to settle the Lordship issue
- Lance: AL ‘a Great Commission convention’
- SBTC committee affirms GCRTF report
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Joseph Bunce): One reason why I am a Southern Baptist
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Robert White): Great Commission Giving
- ANALYSIS: What Southern Baptists really think about the Cooperative Program
- TRUSTEES: Hunt, Floyd address NAMB
- Floyd: Approach GCR vote with ‘open heart’
- Leo Endel: GCRTF may speed CP ‘crumbling;’ new works perspective needed
- Jimmy Jackson: Change should come from the bottom-up, not top-down
- Ted Traylor: GCR logical for CP resurgence; vision inspires giving
- Bryant Wright: Radically reprioritize CP funds; connect with young leaders
- Jackson harbors ‘serious concerns’ about GCR; Endel, Traylor & Wright reactions mixed
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry): Needed: Worthy examples of CP support
- ANALYSIS: Are we serious about penetrating lostness?
GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Steve Horn): An obedience problem, not an allocation one - GCRTF VIEWPOINT (John Loudat): The bright side of GCR
- PERSPECTIVE (Morris H. Chapman): The downside of the GCTF recommendations — would likely harm the SBC and its
- Executive Committee
- PERSPECTIVE (Morris H. Chapman): The Great Commission Task Force Final Report: An Analysis and Thoughtful Questions
- Open Letter to Southern Baptists about the GCRTF Recommendations
- ‘A Better Way Ahead’ –- alternate recommendations released by EC’s Chapman
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Timothy Boyd): Emphasize equal sacrifice
- GCRTF Viewpoint (David Williams): The missing link of the task force report
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Randall Adams): Okla. Baptists’ Great Commission Resurgence
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Mark Coppenger): Groundhog Day or Chariots of Fire?
- GCRTF NEWS: GCR recordings to be closed 10 years
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (J.D. Greear): Why younger S. Baptists should pay attention
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Ernest J. Kelley): GCR plan sends SBC back to pre-1950s era
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Danny Sinquefield): The motivation behind the mission
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bill Shiflett): You can be pro-Cooperative Program and pro-GCR
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Michael Watson): A likely GCRTF scenario
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Lonnie Wilkey): Us and them
- JOHNNY HUNT: In his own words
- BOBBY WELCH: A view of the crossroads
OTHER VIEWS ABOUT CATALYZING A GREAT COMMISSION RESURGENCE
- FIRST-PERSON: It’s time for a visit from the Great Physician
- FIRST-PERSON: Starting a Great Commission Resurgence
