SBC Life Articles in SBC Annual Meetings

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Eleven speakers will join worship leader Charles Billingsley on stage for the 2024 Pastors’ Conference June 9-10 preceding the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Recommendations from the group tasked with defining what it means to be in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention are expected to be presented in late April or early May.

MOORE, S.C. (BP) – A Spartanburg-area pastor will be nominated to serve as president of the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors Conference.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Well-known academic leader and preaching coach David Allen will be nominated for SBC president at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting this summer. Texas pastor Danny Forshee says he plans to nominate Allen in Indianapolis.

At our annual meeting in 2023, SBC messengers passed the first approval of a constitutional amendment (what’s come to be known as the “Law Amendment”), which states that the Convention will only deem a church to be in friendly cooperation with the Convention which: “Affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”

In a previous essay “Responding to Opposition to the Law Amendment,” there was one objection that I did not address but that I have been hearing from different quarters of the SBC for some time now.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Resilience is central to the ministry of Yale and Autumn Wall in inner-city Indianapolis, serving college students and a zip code whose residents have a per capita income roughly half the U.S. average.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP) – Florida pastor Dean Inserra intends to nominate Brad Whitt at the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference to be the president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference. Whitt is the pastor of Abilene Baptist Church in Martinez, Ga.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Pre-registration for the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis has opened up for messengers and/or childcare at sbcannualmeeting.net.

NASHVILLE (BP) — A report brought by the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force this June at the SBC annual meeting could be considered as one 15 years in the making.