There was incredible excitement in Louisville when 95% of SBC messengers at the 2009 Annual Meeting supported a motion for President Johnny Hunt to appoint a Great Commission Resurgence Task Force to study our convention structures and come back with recommendations on how we can better cooperate to fulfill the Great Commission. For the first time in a long time …
Baptist 21 to Host “GCR Panel” @ SEBTS Chapel
Baptist21 is excited about putting on a GCR panel discussion during a Wednesday Chapel hour at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. This is a critical time in the life of our convention. The GCR Task Force preliminary report is causing much buzz, and this will only increase as we move closer to Orlando in June. This panel will seek to address …
B21’s Jon Akin Preaching @ FBC Woodstock
Recently, B21’s Jon Akin was given the privilege to preach at the Church of SBC President Johnny Hunt (First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia). He preached all three morning services and the evening service. Below you will find both sermons. In one sermon, Jon exposited the Temptation Narrative in Matthew In the other, Jon took the congregation through the Noah …
The Future of Church Planting in the SBC? (Part 2)
Part one of this series, The Primacy of the Local Church in Church Planting The Primacy of the Local Church should also help the mission board make church planting its primary concern (maybe only concern). The main focus of a home mission board should be the planting of churches. It should be a church planting network. Why? Jesus promised that …
B21 RADIO INTERVIEW WITH THE PATH (CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY RADIO)
Baptist 21 writers Jon Akin and Walter Strickland recently sat down with Chad Bresson to do a radio interview for THE PATH. The Path is a Christian radio station that broadcasts out of Cedarville University. Bresson asked Baptist 21 about the events of the Convention and what is in store for Baptist 21. You can check out the interview here. …
Johnny Hunt’s Timothy+Barnabas Conference
Baptist21 would like to encourage our readers to seriously consider attending an upcoming conference that we believe will be of great benefit to you. Annually, Pastor Johnny Hunt (President of the Southern Baptist Convention) holds a conference for pastors called Timothy+Barnabas. This is a time where you get to rub shoulders with Pastor Johnny and learn about ministry from him. …
SBC Reflections Interview Series:Part 4 – Nick Floyd
Nick Floyd is Associate Pastor/Preaching Assistant at the FBC Springdale, AR and The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Rogers, Arkansas. He previously served on staff at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX before joining FBC Springdale. Nick has a B.S. from Liberty University, a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is nearing completion of a Dmin from Liberty …
SBC Reflections Interview Series:Part 3 – Jay Hardwick
Jay Hardwick is Lead Pastor of Awaken Church, a soon to be launched church plant in Columbia, SC. He holds a M.Div. in Missions, Evangelism, and Church Growth from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and a Bachelor of Arts from North Greenville University in Tigerville, SC. In addition to leading Awaken, Jay helps lead and facilitate a …
Blog at Between the Times: GM and the SBC
Guest Blog at Between The Times from Don Dunavant, Professor of Christian Studies, California Baptist University Monday morning, June 1, 2009, General Motors filed for bankruptcy. The once number one car maker in the world came to an ignoble demise. Started in 1908, for most of its one hundred and one year history GM was synonymous with the America idea …
Third Generation Conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention (part 3): Misconceptions
Guest Blog by Steven A. McKinion He is the Associate Professor of Theology and Patristic Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has taught Theology, Church History, Hermeneutics, and Historcial Theology classes at Southeastern Seminary. Dr. McKinion’s area of specialization is Patristic Theology. He holds the following degrees: B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Mobile; Ph.D., King’s College, University …