JEFFERSON CITY – Does the Bible command tithing – that is, giving 10 percent of our income to God? If we don’t tithe, are we robbing God? Doesn’t the Old Testament teach tithing, while the New Testament teaches giving? Isn’t the whole issue one of law vs. grace? These questions – and others – are addressed in a new video and Bible study just released by the Missouri Baptist Convention. The video/study package is called, “Will a man rob God? What the Bible really says about … [Read more...]
3-time ‘Woman of the Year’ among those to speak at Worldview Conference
KAYLA RINKER/contributing writer HANNIBAL – With more than 500,000 members, 450 prayer/action chapters and teams, 600 trained leaders, and 30 years of service, Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization. “There is hardly a single issue facing the nation today that is not critically important to Baptist women; unless forces are put into place to halt the so-called ‘progressive’ agenda’s rampant spread throughout the nation, all of us … [Read more...]
HIS leaders pick church planter as coordinator
Lee Warren/contributing writer Kansas City – The Heartland Interstate Strategy (HIS) task force met at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on Feb. 25 for its final meeting involving all of its original members. HIS decided to streamline its team (pairing down to one representative from each convention) after convention executives approved Jeffrey Chavez as its new coordinator. The meeting included HIS task force members Mark Elliott (Nebraska), Kurt Simon (Missouri), Gene Stockton … [Read more...]
April 8 Call to Prayer
Peyton Manning is perhaps the best quarterback at calling audibles. Football fans have watched this guy for years step up to the line of scrimmage, and if he discovers that the play called in the huddle is not going to translate into a successful yardage gain, he calls an audible. The play doesn’t need to be complicated, just something the opposing team doesn’t expect. I need to call an audible. One of the functions of the state convention is to convene the people of God called … [Read more...]
Strategos brings security to the Bootheel
SIKESTON – Pastors and other church leaders from around the state gathered in the bootheel for the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) first 2014 church security and intruder awareness training here at Miner Baptist Church, Feb. 15. During the first decade of the millennium, instances of church violence in the United States increased tenfold, according to one report. And violence can strike anywhere. For this reason, Tim Kile and Erik Baileygaines of Strategos International equipped 61 … [Read more...]
Missouri’s Annie Armstrong goal $2M
JEFFERSON CITY – Easter is fast approaching, and that means it istime for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering to support the efforts of the North American Mission Board (NAMB). Missouri Baptists have set a goal for the 2014 offering of $2 million. That is up from the $1.75 million goal last year, since Missourians blew by the goal and gave $2,002,727.17. The nationwide goal is $70 million for ministry across the country, including in Missouri. This year’s week of prayer for NAMB … [Read more...]
Trusteeship – a sacred trust
Just this week I returned from serving on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. Our February meeting was full of important decisions impacting the cooperative work of churches that identify themselves as Southern Baptist congregations. My fellow trustees listened to amazing reports about our international missionaries and new church planting in North America. We were challenged to hear how our six Southern Baptist seminaries are adapting their work of equipping tomorrow’s … [Read more...]
Bumpers: Reach the world “whatever it takes”
SPRINGFIELD – Pastor Eddie Bumpers of Crossway Baptist Church challenged Missouri Baptists at the “Sowing in Tears” conference to do “whatever it takes” to reach the lost. Preaching from Matt. 9:1-8, Bumpers recounted how four faithful friends dug a hole in someone’s roof to get their lame friend to Jesus for the restoration he needed. Bumpers shared four characteristics that believers should imitate as they reach the lost. First, like these four friends, believers should love the … [Read more...]
Sow in tears to change lives, Williams says
SPRINGFIELD – People ought to be changed when Jesus Christ intersects their lives. During the “Sowing in Tears” conference, Jan. 27-28, Pastor K. Marshall Williams of the Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Penn., shared how Christ changed his life and urged Missouri Baptists to proclaim the life-changing gospel to others. “Was it really me proclaiming and exclaiming the Word of God?” Williams remembered asking after he entered the ministry. “All of us were naughty before we became … [Read more...]
Evangelists missing link in revival services
The Bible says that Christians have different calls to service. Each Christian should therefore serve the body of Christ, the apostle Paul writes in 1 Cor. 12, lest the body miss a vital organ that would empower the church for ministry. Yet some Missouri Baptist evangelists feel that they are all too often left out of the ministry of churches, although they feel that their service could provide a missing link for successful revival services. There are several reasons for this: Some … [Read more...]
Preston explains Psalm 126
SPRINGFIELD - Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. Those two verses from Ps. 126 gave the Sowing in Tears Conference Jan. 27 and 28 its theme, and the short, six-verse chapter was the subject of an exposition by Tony Preston, professor of pastoral leadership at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. “I look, as do you, for a great harvest,” Preston said. “I … [Read more...]
Hobby Lobby defends faith in Christ
JEFFERSON CITY – Joshua Hawley, an attorney on the legal team defending Hobby Lobby, told members of Concord Baptist Church here that the Oklahoma-based arts and crafts retailer will stand before the Supreme Court, March 25, because of “the hope they have in Jesus Christ.” The Green family – the Southern Baptist owners of Hobby Lobby – filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2012 because of an HHS mandate that would force them to violate their … [Read more...]
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