The Northeast has become the least reached area in America. But there are some very exciting things happening there in the area of church planting. This is true in the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/South Jersey. This state convention is partnering with local churches and allowing them to train future church planters for their area! One of the churches leading …
The Gospel of Jesus in the Life of King Joash
Baptist21 is committed to seeking gospel-centrality among the nations through the church to the glory of King Jesus. Part of seeking gospel-centrality is learning to read the Bible rightly and understand how the gospel of King Jesus is the central theme of the entire bible (Lk. 24). So, B21 author Jon Akin (who is completing a PhD in O.T. Studies) …
ESSENTIAL EDWARDS COLLECTION HALF OFF
Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney wrote and assembled the Essential Edwards Collection (Moody, 2010). These are excellent works that make Edwards’ writing accessible to a wide audience. Many believe that Jonathan Edwards is the greatest theologian America has produced. Strachan and Sweeney have given the church a great gift by making his theology and writings available to us in this …
Church Planting Networks: FBC Woodstock
The GCR vote is over, but now the real work of actually seeing a Great Commission Resurgence come about begins! One of the highlights of the entire GCR report was the focus on church planting as the best strategy for sustaining a long term assault on the lostness of North America. Our hope is that as we are enabled over …
THE GCR & LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS: INTERVIEW WITH BILL AGEE
For over 300 years local associations have been helping local churches cooperate together to carry out the Great Commission. Associations were doing this before there were state or national conventions. The GCRTF was commissioned to study what we do as a convention and bring back recommendations (and challenges) to the SBC about how we can more faithfully and effectively cooperate …
B21 PANEL @ SBC 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT
Baptist 21 is excited to announce that Johnny Hunt and Ronnie Floyd will be joining us at the B21 Panel Luncheon. They will join a very important conversation with Akin, Platt, Scroggins, Stetzer, Chandler, and Mohler about the future of the SBC and the Great Commission Resurgence. This year’s SBC is being compared already to the 1979 Convention when the …
GCR or CPR: What are we voting for in Orlando?
What are we voting on in Orlando? In the comments section of a recent article by Alvin Reid the GCR debate took on much greater clarity for me. I think I now understand in clear terms the two paths that the SBC is being asked to choose between in Orlando in June. One path is the “Great Commission Resurgence” …
DIFFICULT DECISIONS: “BEST” VERSUS “GOOD” IN GCR DEBATE
There was incredible excitement in Louisville when 95% of SBC messengers at the 2009 Annual Meeting supported a motion for President Johnny Hunt to appoint a Great Commission Resurgence Task Force to study our convention structures and come back with recommendations on how we can better cooperate to fulfill the Great Commission. For the first time in a long time …
SBC Heroes: RG Lee – Part 3 (Payday Someday)
When R. G. Lee pastored the First Baptist Church of Edgefield, South Carolina, he gave a devotional during a prayer meeting called “Payday Someday.” A deacon told him afterwards that he had some pretty good material and needed to work on it some. Lee did! He ended up preaching Payday more than 1,200 times! As a part of honoring the …
SBC Heroes: R.G. Lee-Part 2 (Preaching Method)
Part One, SBC Heroes: R.G. Lee (Bio) At Highview Baptist Church our teaching pastors have been preaching through Acts over the last several months. The sermon series is entitled “Uprising,” because we are looking at how Christ began to build his church through the Spirit-empowered witness of his disciples. This theme of uprising and growth constantly emerges in Acts as …