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June 22, 2017
By Diana Chandler Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) – Professors, pastors and a state convention leader comprise a new task force to suggest how Southern Baptists might reap a greater harvest through personal evangelism and evangelistic preaching. Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines announced the team Wednesday (June 14) during his closing remarks at the 2017 […]
June 21, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Through Southern Baptists’ “faithful, generous and consistent giving” of more than $98 million to the Cooperative Program and approximately $153 million to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, the International Mission Board has reached financially stability, IMB President David Platt told the entity’s trustees June 12. “That’s breathtaking: over $250 million […]
June 21, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Good financial stewardship stems from a right relationship with God, and the Bible has plenty to say about managing God’s resources God’s way, a group of pastors said during the President’s Panel on Stewardship June 14 at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix. Led by SBC […]
June 17, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Pledging “NAMB will do its part,” North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell said the SBC needs a “Gospel Conversation Resurgence” if declining baptism numbers are to turn around. “If one member from each of our 47,000 churches shares the Gospel each day, it would result in over 17 million […]
June 16, 2017
Compiled by B&R Staff RICHMOND — The 2016 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions contained a “good news, bad news” scenario. The good news is that the offering reached its fourth highest total ever, closing at approximately $153 million, according to data released June 7 by the IMB. The bad news is that the […]
June 15, 2017
By Tom Strode Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Messengers to the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting denounced “alt-right white supremacy” in a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday (June 14) after a tumultuous day of refusing to address the issue. It appeared maybe fewer than 10 messengers in the Phoenix Convention Center hall voted in the […]
June 15, 2017
By Seth Brown Baptist Press PHOENIX — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention proposed 11 motions during two 15-minute scheduled segments of the 2017 annual meeting in Phoenix. Messengers voted affirmatively on one of the motions, submitted by Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board and member of First Baptist Church in Alpharetta, […]
June 14, 2017
By Tom Strode Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Messengers to the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions Tuesday (June 13) repenting of prayerlessness and calling for leaders to practice biblical morality before deciding late at night to vote Wednesday on a previously rejected proposal denouncing the “alt-right.” The approved resolutions covered some hot-button theological and […]
June 14, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX — The 2017 SBC Pastors Conference proved historic on many levels including the unanimous election of H.B. Charles Jr., pastor of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., as the conference’s first black president. The election took place during the afternoon session of the conference at the Phoenix Convention Center, June 12. […]
June 14, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines was reelected by acclamation to a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the June 13-14 SBC annual meeting in Phoenix. He will lead a diverse slate of officers including Walter Strickland, an African American leader of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Kingdom Diversity […]
June 13, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — A full-capacity audience gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center Monday (June 12) for a discussion about evangelism at the North American Mission Board’s 2017 Send Luncheon which coincided with the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference. “NAMB exists to come alongside churches and help them be on mission,” NAMB president Kevin […]
June 13, 2017
Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — It started Friday, June 9 — the rumblings of an awakening. More than 700 voices worshiped at North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., kicking off the weekend’s Crossover Arizona and Harvest America events. The North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) Crossover Arizona and Greg Laurie’s Harvest America joined forces to […]
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