JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists have a chance to join the voices calling for Missouri’s General Assembly to pass a bill next year to put a new constitutional amendment on a statewide ballot. The petition outlining the plan by a broad coalition of religious freedom advocates – including Missouri Baptist leaders – is available to be read and signed with the click of a mouse at www.crlpetition.com. More than one fifth of messengers attending the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting … [Read more...]
MBC’s Yeats outlines restructuring, attendees focus on religious liberty
SPRINGFIELD – Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) messengers pressed forward during their 181st annual meeting with the restructuring of the convention’s staff and with the defense of religious liberty. A total of 1,022 messengers and 236 guests from 440 churches gathered, Oct. 26-28, at Springfield’s University Plaza and Expo Center, where MBC Executive Director John Yeats highlighted the need for the convention to return to its original mission to “make disciples, multiply churches, and … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist women hear message of courage
SPRINGFIELD – Five years ago Jennifer Rothschild was ready to quit ministry and hide in her bedroom. “I want to be gut-honest with you, Sisters. I was defeated and depressed,” she said to a packed ballroom of more than 200 Missouri Baptist women at the University Plaza Hotel here. “My system for managing my blindness was failing me … but I am so thankful that God never fails me. In that moment I preached to my soul, ‘I Am.’ That’s when you realize what can change everything. There is a … [Read more...]
Gospel at the CORE of making disciples
SPRINGFIELD – While the unifying theme for this year’s two-session CORE conference was Making Disciples, the takeaway inspired messengers to share the gospel more. Organized by Matt Kearns, Leadership Development Team Leader for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), the CORE conference took place Oct. 27 in the Springfield Expo Center as part of the 181st annual meeting of the MBC. “While the gospel will change others as we share it, it should be changing us,” said Alvin Reid, professor of … [Read more...]
Floyd: Cry out for ‘unprecedented move of God’
SPRINGFIELD – As the MBC Annual Meeting concluded, Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Cross Church, Springdale, Arkansas, spoke to the messengers. His sermon was titled “Moving Forward in God’s Power.” Floyd said missions organizations, state conventions, associations can drift away from their central purpose. “The danger is they lose sight of their priorities and focus, drifting away from God’s mission and power,” he said. He told of the Great Prayer … [Read more...]
Shelton preaches on gospel treasure
SPRINGFIELD – The Apostle Paul wrote his second letter to the church at Corinth amid an era of spiritual immaturity and an increasingly sinful culture. Robert Shelton preached to Missouri Baptists that they would do well to consider Paul’s words in the convention sermon Oct. 27 at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. The pastor of First Baptist Church, Plattsburg, Shelton preached from 2 Corinthians 4. “It was a time of religious pluralism, an age of decadent lifestyles and an … [Read more...]
Pastors challenged to seek revival
SPRINGFIELD – Eight speakers challenged and encouraged attendees of the Missouri Baptist Pastors’ Conference, Oct. 26. Jeremy Roberts, The Church in the Highlands in Chattanooga TN pastor, admonished ministers not to compare themselves with others. “Stop feeling inferiority or superiority to others, but stand in the sufficiency of God,” Roberts said. He said the solution is to honor, magnify and glorify God, and be thankful. “(This) stops the focus on ourselves. It is a blessing to have our … [Read more...]
Luncheon highlights MBC partnership with Italy
SPRINGFIELD – MBC Annual Meeting participants heard Charles Worthy, Connecting Leader for Italy with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, as he spoke at the partnership missions luncheon here. Rick Hedger, team leader for the MBC Missional Evangelism/Discipleship Team, cast the vision for 15 Missouri churches to agree to partner with three regions of Italy: Veneto, Tentino Alto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. These are all in the northeastern part of Italy, and each region has … [Read more...]
Messengers speak on religious liberty, sanctity of life, Israel
SPRINGFIELD – Speaking with one voice and with little debate, messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting here were unified in their support of a resolution reaffirming religious liberty for all Americans. “Resolution 3” spoke in defense of religious liberty, pointing out that Baptist in the United States and in Missouri have a long history of supporting freedom of religious exercise for all. The resolution notes that “religious liberty guarantees, not merely the right of … [Read more...]
Wilcox: Marriage makes men work harder, smarter
HANNIBAL – Men play a significant role in the life and health of their families, and family life changes men for the better, according to W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project. Wilcox, who serves as associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is also a keynote speaker at the 2016 Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University, April 14. During an interview with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler on his … [Read more...]
Worldview Conference to feature 3-time ‘Woman of the Year’
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 are in for some rough days ahead,” said … [Read more...]
Proposing a religious liberty bill for Missouri
As attacks on our religious liberty have intensified in recent months, Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats asked me to spearhead a statewide multi-faith initiative that would further secure religious liberty for Missourians. For the past three months I have had the privilege of being a part of a broad coalition of church leaders, legal scholars, State Capitol staffers, lawmakers, pro-family and religious liberty groups in crafting legislation that would respect and … [Read more...]
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