NASHVILLE (BP) – This year brought a lot of losses. We lost an elder statesman in Charles Stanley and a younger church-planting champion in Clint Clifton. We lost faith in a key leader and fell out of friendly cooperation with a few churches. These losses formed a good number of our most read stories. But we also celebrated bold evangelism and Gospel fruit. Here are BP’s 12 most read stories of 2023.
- Elevation Church withdraws from SBC cooperation
- Saddleback Church deemed ‘not in friendly cooperation’ with SBC
- Saddleback ‘prayerfully considering’ next steps, says pastor
- Charles Stanley, pivotal SBC president, TV preacher, dies
- Clint Clifton, NAMB staffer, dies in plane crash
- McLaurin resigns as interim EC president and CEO, removed from search consideration
- Prayers answered in a Zambian prison
- Ford plant is ‘once-in-a-lifetime event’ in West Tennessee
- FIRST-PERSON: 7 considerations for Southern Baptists in the days ahead
- 4,500 baptized at Pirate’s Cove Beach, iconic site of Jesus Movement baptisms
- Strength to carry: Friday nights light up brother-sister relationship
- Valedictorian speech based on the Gospel goes viral
