NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC will thrive through challenging days ahead if it holds fast to its confession of faith and its cooperative ministry model, SBC President Clint Pressley told the Convention’s Executive Committee Sept. 17. In his first address to the EC since being elected SBC president in June, Pressley said 2025 is an ideal year to celebrate both the Convention’s Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) and its Cooperative Program (CP) since both will celebrate their 100th … [Read more...]
FBC Alexandria ‘no longer in friendly cooperation’ with SBC over views on female pastors
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The SBC voted June 11 to discontinue its cooperative relationship with a Virginia church that has a female associate pastor. The church has ordained at least three women as pastors over more than four decades and told the SBC Credentials Committee it would consider a female as senior pastor. Messengers voted to declare First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., not in friendly cooperation with the Convention by a ballot vote of 6,759 to 563 at the Indiana Convention … [Read more...]
Stephen Rummage to lead 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference
NEW ORLEANS (BP) — Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rummage, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, will lead planning of next year’s SBC Pastors’ Conference June 9-10 in Indianapolis. Rummage is a former chairman of the SBC Executive Committee and former president of the Florida Baptist Convention. … [Read more...]
SBC business plan change rejected, SBC constitution amended
NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers resoundingly defeated a change to the SBC Business and Financial Plan proposed by the convention’s Executive Committee. Critics said the proposal would have granted the EC too much authority and left the six SBC seminaries in trouble with accreditors. The defeat was part of messengers’ mixed reception to a series of recommendations presented by the EC June 15 at the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting at Nashville’s Music City Center. An amendment to the SBC Constitution … [Read more...]
Mayflower among ‘great turning points,’ despite NYT claims
NASHVILLE (BP) – Four hundred years after the Mayflower landed in Plymouth Bay, the Pilgrims’ legacy has fallen on hard times. Contrary to the traditional portrayal of Pilgrim families gathered around their tables with heads bowed in prayer, some historians question whether deep Christian faith should be associated with the Mayflower Pilgrims and their first Thanksgiving. The New York Times’ 1619 Project claims the Pilgrim story is among American history that needs reframing in light of … [Read more...]
LifeWay, Rainer settle contract dispute, Oct. 5
NASHVILLE (BP) – LifeWay Christian Resources and Thom Rainer agreed to settlement terms in a breach of contract lawsuit between the SBC entity and its former CEO. The statement indicates the agreement was reached Oct. 5, a day after Rainer had tweeted his intent to accept LifeWay’s terms to end the lawsuit. According to a statement jointly released Oct. 6, Rainer agreed to honor the terms of his separation agreement, including a noncompete clause. He also agreed “not to move forward with … [Read more...]
SBC Peace Committee sought clarity, resolution amid denominational debate
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. NASHVILLE (BP) – Decades after the Southern Baptist Convention Peace Committee delivered its major report to the convention, Baptists hold a range of views on the committee's significance. Some claim it played a positive … [Read more...]
‘A watershed moment’ – SBC’s 1985 meeting in Dallas drew 45,000 messengers
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. DALLAS (BP) – For pastor's wife Ritchie Hale, attending the 1985 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting meant sleeping in a 1960 popup camper with her husband and four children amid 100-degree temperatures and … [Read more...]
Conservative Resurgence fosters pro-life stance in SBC
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the tenth article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. NASHVILLE (BP) – In 1979, Larry Lewis picked up a copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and saw a full-page ad listing the Southern Baptist Convention among denominations that affirmed the right to abortion. "Right there … [Read more...]
Greear to be re-nominated for SBC president
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Pennsylvania pastor K. Marshall Williams announced April 12. “In these troublesome and turbulent times, we need a pastor-preacher-prophet that will stand in the gap and lead with confident, consistent, convictional, Christo-centric, courageous courtesy,” Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, wrote in a statement announcing his … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka Christian massacre ‘shocking in its cruelty’
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (BP) – Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that targeted Christians and killed at least 290 people have prompted calls to prayer by Southern Baptists who work to take the Gospel to South Asian people groups. "As we process the news of attacks on Easter services today in Sri Lanka, our hearts are grieved," the Southern Baptist workers said as a group in written comments. "We weep with those who weep ... As we reflect on the living hope we have through the resurrection of Jesus … [Read more...]
Religious liberty setback at court may not be final
WASHINGTON (BP) – Religious liberty's latest setback at the U.S. Supreme Court in its ongoing face-off with sexual liberty is disappointing but may not prove conclusive, Southern Baptist religious freedom advocates said. The high court opted not to review a Hawaii Court of Appeals decision against a bed and breakfast that declined to rent a room to a same-sex couple. By their refusal, the justices permitted the lower court ruling to stand in their March 18 orders. The Christian Life … [Read more...]
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