[1]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 [2]
- GCR: Tone, focus, clarity of declaration questioned by non-signers [3]
- GCR: Merge mission boards, chairman of North American Mission Board says [4]
- GCR: GPS rally cry will unite Southern Baptists around Great Commission [5]
- GCR: My bloated bureaucracy [6]
- GCR: ‘Great Commission Resurgence’ needs Great Commission partners [7]
- GCR: Akin discusses its history, intent [8]
- Hunt: SBC needed ‘shock’ of GCR declaration [9]
- Vines signs GCR declaration ‘with caveats’ [10]
- Hunt responds to GCR critics; Predicts SBC will OK task force [11]
- SBC President Hunt urges ‘personal Great Commission resurgence’ [12]
- Prayer requested for GCR/execs meeting [13]
- FIRST-PERSON (Gerald Harris): GCR myths and transparency [14]
- FIRST-PERSON (Danny Sinquefield): EKG is vital to resurgence [15]
GCRTF VOTE; MEMBERS & PROFILES
- Hunt names GCR task force members [16]
- GCR task force overwhelmingly approved [17]
- Hunt expresses urgency about Great Commission [18]
- Motions: GCR task force endorsed [19]
- WRAP-UP: SBC green-lights Great Commission Task Force [20]
- Johnny Hunt adds 4 to GCR task force [21]
- PROFILES: GCR task force members [22]
GCRTF MEETINGS
- GCR task force leaders engage students [23]
- GCR task force to meet twice in August [24]
- Great Commission, not ‘old wars,’ will be focus of GCR task force, chairman says [25]
- GCR website goes live at pray4gcr.com [26]
- GCR Task Force chairman encouraged, burdened after group’s initial meeting [27]
- GCR’s Floyd: Take ‘honest look’ at SBC [28]
- GCR task force quizzed on range of topics [29]
- GCR task force calls for input, prayer [30]
- Ronnie Floyd holds Q&A session on GCR [31]
- GCR Task Force making ‘enormous progress,’ chairman Floyd says [32]
- GCR task force to issue progress report [33]
- Floyd: IMB/NAMB merger not in GCR plan [34]
- GCRTF: Strategy change a must for SBC [35]
- GCR Task Force members, state execs meet [36]
- GCRTF chair: CP ‘central, preferred conduit;’ Survey response: 77% would vote ‘no’ [37]
- Floyd says GCRTF 100% and that GC-driven Southern Baptists will support report [38]
- Panel recaps GCR prior to May 3 report [39]
STATE LEADERS ADDRESS GCRTF
- State execs offer GCRTF their vision, views about SBC [40]
- Hankins: Cooperation ‘key’ to resurgence; offers strategy to strengthen CP [41]
- FIRST-PERSON (Joseph Bunce): GCR report — more questions than answers [42]
- GCR report could put new work conventions ‘out of business,’ Mont. exec. says [43]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: ‘It would devastate us,’ Ala. evangelism director says [44]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Iowa executive director, ‘Before writing us off…’ [45]
- GBC asks GCRTF to strengthen CP wording [46]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Calif. president & exec. bd. chairman support ‘bold new measures’ [47]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Ill. exec. on the challenges of a Great Commission Resurgence [48]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Cooperation missing — states excluded except to raise funds for national entities [49]
- GCR could trigger ministry cuts in Mo. [50]
- Ga. EC vote: CP ‘historical and proven’ [51]
- Western execs concerned about GCR report [52]
- SBC-Va. leaders issue open letter to GCRTF [53]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Kan.-Neb. exec. concerned about proposal [54]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Byron Day): Pill too big to swallow? [55]
- Hankins comments on GCRTF session with state execs [56]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (David Tolliver): Receive all information; take honest look at ramifications [57]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Terry Robertson): Denominational employees should stop defending … a paycheck [58]
- Ky. board: Cooperative Program ‘essential’ [59]
- La. exec assesses GCRTF final report [60]
GCRTF PRESS RELEASES
[61]- Great Commission Task Force chairman issues call for 5,000 prayer volunteers [62]
- GCR chairman speaks to myths about work [63]
- SBC PRESIDENT: Jan. 31, a day of prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention [64]
- GCR chairman: ‘difficult decisions ahead’ [65]
- Jan. 31 prayer day crucial, GCR’s Floyd says [66]
- GCRTF NEWS: 4 new endorsements announced [67]
- GCR report gets 5 new endorsements [68]
- GCRTF issues ‘Seven Points of Prayer’ [69]
- GCRTF NEWS: Graham, Sullivan among 5 new GCR endorsers [70]
GCRTF INTERIM REPORT AND REACTIONS
- GCR Task Force releases progress report at EC [71]
- Big changes in store for NAMB, states conventions under GCR proposal [72]
- GCR Task Force process discussed [73]
- NAMB chairman responds to GCR proposals [74]
- New paradigms needed, Rankin says [75]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Al Mohler on state cooperative agreements [76]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Glen Land on state cooperative agreements [77]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Danny Akin on GCRTF report [78]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Scott Brewer on GCRTF report [79]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Bob White on new name for SBC giving [80]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Norman Jameson on new name for SBC giving [81]
- NAMB revises data to GCRTF [82]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Glen Land on Cooperative Agreements & accountability [83]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: NAMB, cooperative agreements essential for church planting & DR [84]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Be more radical; shut down NAMB, keep DR [85]
- White paper details history of CP & stewardship promotion in SBC [86]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Seminaries lost more CP ‘purchasing power’ than state conventions [87]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: First draft has wineskins but not wine [88]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: Observations of an evangelist [89]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT: What does Scripture say? [90]
- FIRST-PERSON: Three questions for the GCR task force [91]
- Floyd replies to ‘3 questions’ article [92]
- Paper provides ‘Just the Facts’ about SBC structure, methodology & finance [93]
- Delay GCR til 2011, Mo. board urges [94]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Kenneth S. Hemphill): Our need is deeper than structural changes [95]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Kenneth S. Hemphill): Valuing the work of state conventions [96]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Ken Hemphill): The solution is more sacrificial giving [97]
- Q&A: EC’s Chapman discusses proposed cut [98]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry): IMB deserves support, but gutting EC not wise [99]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry) : CP — what has changed in 4 years? [100]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Jimmy Epting): EKG thrust, CP support & GCR report [101]
GCRTF DRAFT FINAL REPORT AND REACTIONS
- GCR Task Force lists 7 recommendations [102]
- GCRTF issues ‘draft’ final report; substance of changes from progress report varies [103]
- Task force report includes ‘challenges’ [104]
- GCRTF members discuss final report [105]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Les Puryear): The ‘hypocrisy’ of ‘Great Commission Giving’ [106]
- SBC EC’s Chapman states ‘grave concerns’ about harm to SBC’s Cooperative Program [107]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Larry Lewis): Task force recommendations not good for SBC [108]
- GCR plan not a threat to CP, Floyd asserts [109]
- As NAMB goes, so goes SBC, Driggers says [110]
- FIRST-PERSON: GCR: Compelling Southern Baptists to settle the Lordship issue [111]
- Lance: AL ‘a Great Commission convention’ [112]
- SBTC committee affirms GCRTF report [113]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Joseph Bunce): One reason why I am a Southern Baptist [114]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Robert White): Great Commission Giving [115]
- ANALYSIS: What Southern Baptists really think about the Cooperative Program [116]
- TRUSTEES: Hunt, Floyd address NAMB [117]
- Floyd: Approach GCR vote with ‘open heart’ [118]
- Leo Endel: GCRTF may speed CP ‘crumbling;’ new works perspective needed [119]
- Jimmy Jackson: Change should come from the bottom-up, not top-down [120]
- Ted Traylor: GCR logical for CP resurgence; vision inspires giving [121]
- Bryant Wright: Radically reprioritize CP funds; connect with young leaders [122]
- Jackson harbors ‘serious concerns’ about GCR; Endel, Traylor & Wright reactions mixed [123]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bob Terry): Needed: Worthy examples of CP support [124]
- ANALYSIS: Are we serious about penetrating lostness? [125]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Steve Horn): An obedience problem, not an allocation one [126]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (John Loudat): The bright side of GCR [127]
- PERSPECTIVE (Morris H. Chapman): The downside of the GCTF recommendations — would likely harm the SBC and its Executive Committee [128]
- PERSPECTIVE (Morris H. Chapman): The Great Commission Task Force Final Report: An Analysis and Thoughtful Questions [129]
- Open Letter to Southern Baptists about the GCRTF Recommendations [130]
- ‘A Better Way Ahead’ –- alternate recommendations released by EC’s Chapman [131]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Timothy Boyd): Emphasize equal sacrifice [132]
- GCRTF Viewpoint (David Williams): The missing link of the task force report [133]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Randall Adams): Okla. Baptists’ Great Commission Resurgence [134]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Mark Coppenger): Groundhog Day or Chariots of Fire? [135]
- GCRTF NEWS: GCR recordings to be closed 15 years [136]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (J.D. Greear): Why younger S. Baptists should pay attention [137]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Ernest J. Kelley): GCR plan sends SBC back to pre-1950s era [138]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Danny Sinquefield): The motivation behind the mission [139]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Bill Shiflett): You can be pro-Cooperative Program and pro-GCR [140]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Michael Watson): A likely GCRTF scenario [141]
- GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Lonnie Wilkey): Us and them [142]
- JOHNNY HUNT: In his own words [143]
- BOBBY WELCH: A view of the crossroads [144]
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