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 [1]
- Saddleback Church deemed ‘not in friendly cooperation’ with SBC [2]
- Saddleback ‘prayerfully considering’ next steps, says pastor [3]
- Charles Stanley, pivotal SBC president, TV preacher, dies [4]
- Clint Clifton, NAMB staffer, dies in plane crash [5]
- McLaurin resigns as interim EC president and CEO, removed from search consideration [6]
- Prayers answered in a Zambian prison [7]
- Ford plant is ‘once-in-a-lifetime event’ in West Tennessee [8]
- FIRST-PERSON: 7 considerations for Southern Baptists in the days ahead [9]
- 4,500 baptized at Pirate’s Cove Beach, iconic site of Jesus Movement baptisms [10]
- Strength to carry: Friday nights light up brother-sister relationship [11]
- Valedictorian speech based on the Gospel goes viral [12]