There are three weeks left until the 2016 B21 panel at the SBC in St. Louis. We’re going to have a great lineup (David Platt, Matt Chandler, R. Albert Mohler Jr., Danny Akin, Russell Moore, and J.D. Greear) talking about the tough questions and pressing issues facing our convention and churches. If you haven’t already registered, why don’t you take …
Should Baptists Vote for Trump? Part One: “most electable candidate”
2016 is an extremely unique presidential election year in the USA, mainly because of the polarizing nature and character questions surrounding the two main candidates. While Baptists are not as monolithic a group as some would perceive them to be, and while Baptists never vote for a single candidate as a whole, usually it is clear which presidential candidate the …
Interview with SBC Presidential Candidates: Part Three, J.D. Greear
At the fast-approaching SBC in St. Louis messengers from our Southern Baptist churches will be tasked to elect the new President of the SBC. This is a significant responsibility, one that we at B21 and thousands of Southern Baptists take seriously. So, in an attempt to facilitate all of us becoming more informed voters, B21 has sent a list of questions to …
Interview with SBC Presidential Candidates: Part Two, Steve Gaines
At the fast-approaching SBC in St. Louis messengers from our Southern Baptist churches will be tasked to elect the new President of the SBC. This is a significant responsibility, one that we at B21 and thousands of Southern Baptists take seriously. So, in an attempt to facilitate all of us becoming more informed voters, B21 has sent a list of questions to …
Interview with SBC Presidential Candidates: Part One, David Crosby
At the fast-approaching SBC in St. Louis messengers from our Southern Baptist churches will be tasked to elect the new President of the SBC. This is a significant responsibility, one that we at B21 and thousands of Southern Baptists take seriously. So, in an attempt to facilitate all of us becoming more informed voters, B21 has sent a list of questions to …
Refugee Crisis: Part Two, Encouragement
This is a guest post by an IMB missionary currently serving in the field, who has elected to write anonymously for security reasons. The war in Syria has trudged onward for over five years. Refugees have been affected since day-one. The debate about “what to do” really got heated up when refugees started pouring into Europe in 2014. Since then there has …
Refugee Crisis: Part One, Discouragement
This is a guest post by an IMB missionary currently serving in the field, who has elected to write under a pseudonym for security reasons. The war in Syria has trudged onward for over five years. Refugees and internally displaced peoples have been affected since day one. Many in the west, however, have only become aware of their difficulties for a little …
Legacy Churches
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Brian Lowe, the Acts 29 Southeast Network Director. We at B21 are passionate about church planting, and that includes the important role of legacy churches. We’re very thankful for the work of A29, and hope this post is both a blessing and an encouragement for all of us to engage in the mission! We started …
State Baptist Editors and This Week’s Fake SBC Controversy
Recently a hilarious website called the BabylonBee has taken the evangelical world by storm. It is a parody site that shares poignantly funny (and fake) new stories that often hit close to evangelical stereotypes. Some of my personal favorites so far have been: “John Piper Gently Informs David Platt that Everyone Knows about Secret Church,” “Animal Control Corrals Cage-Stage Calvinist …
How Should Someone Think about the Sunday Gathering?
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near – Hebrews 10:24-25 The New Testament has no category for a “me and Jesus Christianity.” Telling one of the …