B21 Panel Update & David Platt Bio

Important Announcements for the Upcoming B21 Panel @ SBC2010 (Below check out a Promo video about this event from David Platt) First: There has been a location change to accommodate more attendees (sign up soon because seats are filling up). The B21 Panel will be held in W414 in the convention center. Second: The first 1,000 registered will receive four …

The Word Grows: A New Testament Plan for Church Growth

“But the word of God grew and multiplied”—Acts 12:24 Among church leaders today, there aren’t many topics hotter than church growth. Just about everyone wants to see their church grow, and just about everyone is talking about how to make that happen. Now, you will find some churches that delight themselves in remaining the size that they are. These church …

What do SBC Churches in the 21st Century Need Most in Order to Fulfill the Great Commission? [Part Two] With Insights from E. M. Bounds’ Power Through Prayer

[This post is part two in a two-part series. Part one was posted on Wednesday, October 22nd at Baptist21. Please check it out before reading on as this post will probably not make much sense to those who haven’t read the first one!]. The great need of our time, as I suggested in part one of this series, is for …

What do SBC Churches in the 21st Century Need Most in Order to Fulfill the Great Commission? [Part One] With Insights from E. M. Bounds’ Classic, Power Through Prayer

Whoever you are in whatever station you might be as you sit down to read this post, let’s play a game of pretend together. Let’s pretend that you are a young man in your mid-twenties. You have just graduated from seminary and have been called to your first pastorate at a small rural church. The church to which you have …

Is there Ageism in the SBC?

1 Timothy 4:12 is one of our generation’s favorite verses to quote, is it not? “Let no one look down on you because you are young” we say to the teen in the youth group, the college graduate heading out into the work force, and the seminarian accepting the call to his first pastorate. Since all Scripture is profitable (2 …