KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Assembling for its spring meeting on April 8-9, members of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's trustees adopted the Nashville Statement as an additional confessional statement and conducted other seminary business including budget approval, faculty moves and reelecting board officers. During his report, MBTS President Jason Allen announced to the board a need for the school to adopt the Nashville Statement, which was published in 2017 by the Council on … [Read more...]
‘A day of reckoning in the SBC’: Patterson discusses Conservative Resurgence in exclusive interview
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh 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. NEW ORLEANS – Four years after Southern Baptists debated about Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s infamous liberal professor, Ralph Elliott, and four years after they accepted a new revision of the Baptist Faith … [Read more...]
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: 50 floors above Johannesburg
April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. Paul Chitwood is president of the SBC's International Mission Board. For information about the Cooperative Program, go to sbc.net/cp. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP) – Standing on the observation deck of the tallest building in Africa and looking out across the sprawling city below, I was powerfully reminded of the eternal importance of the cooperative mission work of Southern Baptists. Johannesburg, the city … [Read more...]
Floyd to champion Great Commission to ‘exhaustion’
DALLAS (BP) – The Great Commission, the Cooperative Program, supporting pastors and listening to Southern Baptists will be among the early emphases of Ronnie Floyd's presidency at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, he said during a press conference and a Facebook Live session April 2. "Our missional vision as Southern Baptists is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations," Floyd said following … [Read more...]
Ronnie Floyd elected SBC EC president/CEO
DALLAS (BP) – Ronnie Floyd is the new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, elected today (April 2) by ballot vote in a called meeting in Dallas. Floyd received 68 of 69 votes cast, the EC said, electing Floyd in an executive session of nearly four hours. A former SBC president, Floyd will resign April 7 from the longtime pastorate of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas and begin his EC leadership immediately, he said in acceptance … [Read more...]
Ronnie Floyd named as EC president nominee
NASHVILLE (BP) – Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd will be recommended for the presidency of the SBC Executive Committee, the EC's presidential search committee announced March 31. The full EC will consider Floyd's nomination Tuesday, April 2, at a special called meeting in Dallas to begin at 11 a.m. Central at the Grand Hyatt at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. A press conference and then a Facebook Live session at … [Read more...]
SBC bylaws workgroup releases sexual abuse response
NASHVILLE (BP) – Following a called meeting via extended conference calls on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 22-23), members of the SBC Executive Committee bylaws workgroup have released a statement responding to SBC President J.D. Greear's report earlier this week on sexual abuse. In his Feb. 18 report, Greer specifically named 10 churches included in recent news reports about sexual abuse cases involving Southern Baptist congregations. He noted these churches should be asked to assure the … [Read more...]
Greenway nominated to lead Southwestern Seminary
FORT WORTH - Southwestern Seminary alumnus Adam W. Greenway, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been unanimously selected by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Presidential Search Committee as their nominee to fill the presidential vacancy. Greenway, 41, has served in many denominational leadership roles, including vice chairman of the Evangelism Task Force (2018), president of the Kentucky … [Read more...]
Sexual abuse and mandated reporting: What is your responsibility?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was released, Feb. 13, by the Missouri Baptist Children's Home, an entity of the Missouri Baptist Convention, in response to the Houston Chronicle's recent report on sexual abuse among Southern Baptists. ST. LOUIS (MBCH) – The Houston Chronicle recently released part 1 of a 3-part series on sexual misconduct by Southern Baptist pastors, deacons, Sunday school teachers and volunteers. It is a sobering and extremely concerning report that the very … [Read more...]
Dockery appoints members to SBU Peer Assessment Committee
BOLIVAR, Mo. (SBU) — Dr. David Dockery, chair of Southwest Baptist University’s Peer Assessment Committee to discuss faith, learning and orthodoxy at the university, has appointed five additional committee members. Committee members are: Dr. David Dockery, committee chair, is president of Trinity International University in Chicago and previously served as president of Union University in Jackson, Tenn., for almost two decades. He is a respected leader in Southern Baptist higher … [Read more...]
Monkey business: As liberalism increased in SBC, evolution debates motivated adoption of BFM 1925
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third 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 the previous article in the series, click here: Abandoning the faith: Lottie Moon, Crawford H. Toy and the infiltration of liberalism in the SBC. In July 1925, a circus of journalists and lawyers, as well as a mishmash of social reformers and pleasure-seekers, descended upon the nearly … [Read more...]
Transitions spur LifeWay trustees to prayer, Rainer gives final presidential address
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—LifeWay Christian Resources trustees gathered for their first meeting of 2019 with their sights set on a season of transition and hopeful prayer for the future. Even on the heels of recent news that LifeWay will close a number of stores and shift toward a more dynamic digital strategy driven by online commerce, President and CEO Thom S. Rainer, who announced his pending retirement at the August 2018 trustee meeting, has confidence in the weeks, months and years … [Read more...]
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