It is surreal to me to now sit on the “other side.” After driving across the southeast, meeting with established churches as an aspiring church planter, and asking for them to “partner” with us, I am now the guy that people come to asking for help. My experience didn’t go so well. As a Southern Baptist, we planted in …
The Wednesday morning session of this year’s Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was slated to be a historic moment in SBC history. Messengers found themselves prepared to cast votes for the third time in twenty-four hours for the election of President of the SBC. After two runoff votes, messengers would finally elect Pastor Steve Gaines, …
Today we’re featuring a post by B21’s long-time friend, Jimmy Scroggins. Jimmy is the Lead Pastor of Family Church in West Palm Beach. Below he shares some key insights and wisdom for new pastors learned from his own transition. Prior to being called to pastor Family Church, I had served as a teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in …
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Dan Darling, Vice President for Communications at the ERLC. We at B21 are thankful for the ERLC’s leadership in equipping the SBC on issues in the public square and their continued support of our mission to be a pastor-led voice for Baptists in the 21st century. As they have in every generation, evangelicals are wrestling with …
Today we’re featuring a guest post by smallgroups.com. They have been a consistent supporter of our annual luncheon at the SBC (if you missed there year’s luncheon in St. Louis, you can watch it here). We’re thankful for the work they do–this helpful piece included. We all need community. In fact, we were designed by God to be …
B21’s own Jon Akin moderates a discussion at the Cooperative Program booth during this year’s SBC with Kevin Ezell, Vance Pitman, Jeff Christopherson, Noah Oldham, and Rayden Hollis. This panel of pastors, NAMB representatives, and church planters offers a unique and much needed perspective on the importance of church planting, as well as practical steps for how you can …
Today we feature an article by Peyton Hill, the Lead Pastor at Highland Baptist Church in Grove City, OH and frequent contributor to B21. I confess. When I read a book I often like to read the last few paragraphs of the final chapter before I even start to work through the preface. I want to see how it turns …
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Dan Darling, Vice President for Communications at the ERLC. We at B21 are thankful for the ERLC’s leadership equipping the SBC on issues in the public square. And if you haven’t already, check out the upcoming ERLC National Conference where they have a killer lineup of speakers who will be specifically looking to prepare us for …
Recently B21’s own Ronnie Parrott sat down with Dr. Ronnie Floyd, the pastor at Cross Church and the immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, to talk about the highlights of his presidency, the 2016 convention, and uniting the generations within the SBC.
At this year’s momentous SBC in St. Louis, B21 gathered key leaders in evangelicalism–J. D. Greear, Danny Akin, David Platt, Albert Mohler, Matt Chandler, Russell Moore–to discuss pressing issues in the SBC and evangelicalism as a whole. B21’s own Jon Akin moderates this year’s panel that touches on issues such as the decline of the American church, racism and …
