Review by Aaron Lumpkin Greear, J.D. Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2013, xiv+128p., $12.99, hardback. Have you asked Jesus into your heart? J.D. Greear has. A lot. In fact, he believes he may hold the world record for doing this. In Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart, …
B21 Panel: Is Church Membership Biblical/Necessary?
Recently, Baptist21 hosted a panel discussion on current topics facing the church at the 9Marks Conference at SEBTS. The panelists included: Danny Akin, Thabiti Anyabwile, Matt Chandler, Mark Dever, Tony Merida, and David Platt. The panelists discussed topics ranging from politics to baptism to church membership and more. This clip considers the question – Is Church Membership Biblical/Necessary? The …
B21 Panel Video – SBC 2012
At this year’s Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, B21 hosted another panel discussion. The topic for this year’s discussion: The Conservative Resurgence, the Great Commission Resurgence, and the Future of the SBC. The panelists included: Danny Akin, JD Greear, Fred Luter, Albert Mohler, Paige Patterson, and David Platt. The topics for the panel focused on: – The necessity …
Divorcing the Local Church
I was approached recently with the question of how one stays “Christian” in Seminary. Essentially, the issue centers on how one maintains a vibrant life as a developing disciple, maturing into the image of our King. One of the most difficult aspects of formal theological education is the tendency to view Christianity clinically. Like research students in a science lab, …
Watering Down Immersion: A Response to David Mathis
Also Check Out Jon Akin’s Response to Michael Horton’s Article On Paedobaptism I understand the impulse and reasoning behind David Mathis’ recent piece on open membership. Excluding gospel-believing brothers and sisters from church membership is a huge deal, so I am very sympathetic to what David says. Any division among brothers should break our hearts. However, I do think some …
Recommended Event – Endure
Baptist 21 would like to make our readers aware of an event in a couple of weeks on enduring in the Ministry. Check out this event hosted by PlantNC and RSVP today! What: Endure – Going the Distance in Ministry When: January 26, 1-4pm Where: The City Hotel and Bistro (203 SW Greenville Blvd Greenville, NC 27834 Speakers: – …
Conference on Scriptures: 20/20 @ SEBTS
B21 would like to make our readers aware of the upcoming 20/20 Conference to be held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. This year’s conference will feature D.A. Carson, Tullian Tchvidjian, Danny Akin, and Tony Merida and will focus on the Scriptures. This conference will look at questions like: – In what way is the Bible “the true story of …
B21 @ FBC JAX Pastors Conference
B21 is excited to host the Church Planting portion of this year’s First Baptist Jacksonville Pastors Conference. The FBC JAX PC annually hosts a diverse and strong line up of speakers. We are honored to be a part of it. This year’s event focuses on the pastor with topics such as: The Pastor and His Message, The Pastor and …
“Church deemed ‘too Calvinistic’ has a passion to cooperate to reach the lost of the world”
It is the desire of B21 that the SBC will be characterized by cooperation around a theological confession (BFM2000) for the expansion of the Gospel among all nations. Recently, we ran an article about a church that had been denied membership in a local association because they were deemed “too Calvinistic.” We want to point out that the brothers …
Interview with Matt Papa (pt. 4)
Recently B21’s Nathan Akin had an opportunity to sit down with Matt Papa and talk about his life, theological education, the state of Christian music, musical worship leadership, his new album, and more… In part 4 Matt talks about developing worship leaders…