This is an ongoing post of a recent interview with Russell Moore, the President-Elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. B21’s Jon Akin sat down with Dr. Moore to interview him about his new role and the future of the ERLC. You can view the first blog regarding this interview here. Be sure to click …
Russell Moore: A Conversation About Ethics, SBC, and America (Part 2)
This is an ongoing post of a recent interview with Russell Moore, the President-Elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. B21’s Jon Akin sat down with Dr. Moore to interview him about his new role and the future of the ERLC. You can view the first blog regarding this interview here. Be sure to click …
Russell Moore: A Conversation About Ethics, SBC, and America (Part 1)
B21’s Jon Akin sat down recently with Russell Moore, the President-Elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, to interview him about his new role and the future of the ERLC. B21 is extremely excited that Dr. Moore has been called to the ERLC, and we are praying that God will work through him in …
CP Transparency
Shared expenses and Southern Baptist State Conventions In our previous post (SBC Loyalty?) we focused mainly on our generation, but this post speaks more to the generation before us. It would seem that there is a lack of transparency when it comes to allocating the CP dollars that ma and pa Southern Baptist are sacrificially giving, specifically in terms of …
SBC Loyalty?
Written by Jon and Nathan Akin Our grandfather was a deacon in a cooperating Southern Baptist Church. He was a blue collar worker who gave generously and sacrificially in cooperation with other likeminded churches so they could send more missionaries, plants more churches, and train more gospel ministers together than they could apart. This giving allowed the Foreign Mission Board …
B21 Panel Florida Baptist State Evangelism Conference
Baptist21 will be hosting a panel lunch at this year’s Florida Baptist Evangelism Conference. Baptist21’s Scott Wilson will moderate the discussion. Scott is the senior pastor of FBC Melbourne, Florida Topic: Disciple-Making: An Ancient Call for the 21st Century Church Some Topics Covered: Priority of Disciple-Making Discipleship and Small Groups Church Planting And more…
Aligning with Hate? Tim Tebow, Greg Doyel, & First Baptist Dallas
I was raised in a loving Christian home where my parents taught me the grace and love of Christ at an early age. However, that did not keep me from being surrounded by the trappings of fundamentalism in the Bible-belt. While my parents and pastors taught me that we are all sinners (“bad guys”) in need of the death and …
The Cross Church School of Ministry
Today on the blog, we wanted to provide an exciting opportunity for those who are called to ministry. Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas, recently announced that his church would begin the Cross Church School of Ministry. This is a great opportunity to gain ministry experience at a great multi-site church. You can find all the …
Sacrificing Our Children to Molech
One of my favorite short stories that I read in school was “The Lottery.” It tells the fictional story of a festival on June 27th in what seems to be a small, Middle America farming town. The story describes the townspeople gathering in the square while children play, women gossip, and the men talk about farming and the weather. Then, …
Does the Bible Say Anything About Our Vote?
We’re less than a week away from November 6th, a very important day in the life of our country. Our entire country is thinking and talking about politics during this election season. What does the Gospel have to say about politics? Does God’s Word give us any instruction on how we should vote or how we should respond to the …