• Great Commission Task Force approved by SBC messengers

  Overwhelming approval of a Great Commission Task Force climaxed 25 minutes of discussion during the Tuesday evening session of Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

  06/24/2009 - By Administrator

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  Revival will lead to Great Commission Resurgence, Hunt predicts

  Revival in the Southern Baptist Convention will lead to a Great Commission Resurgence, SBC President Johnny Hunt asserted in his president’s address to the convention’s annual meeting.

  06/23/2009 - By Administrator

• SBC Pastors’ Conference wrapup: Focus on love to make impact

  Southern Baptists need to focus less on themselves and their institutions and more on the love of Christ if they hope to make an impact on the world, speakers told the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference.

  06/23/2009 - By Administrator

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  Former presidential candidate takes the stage at SBC Pastors Conference

  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stole the stage during the Monday afternoon session of the Pastors Conference—in more ways than one.

  06/23/2009 - By Administrator

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  Focus on sharing the gospel, not institutions, speakers urge pastors

  Southern Baptists need to focus less on themselves and their institutions if they hope to make an impact on a world “racing toward hell,” speakers said at the final session of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference.

  06/23/2009 - By Administrator

• Love-driven unity centers on common mission, Baptist pastors told

  Themes of love, forgiveness and unity surfaced throughout the Monday morning session of the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference as speakers developed the theme of “What If? One Love.”

  06/22/2009 - By Administrator

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  Loveless gospel attracts no one, Southern Baptist pastors are told

  Until Baptists demonstrate love for each other, the gospel of love they preach will not attract others, speakers told the opening session of the annual Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference.

  06/22/2009 - By Administrator

• Baptist ministers urge passage of climate-change bill

  A total of 140 moderate Baptist leaders signed a June 18 letter urging passage of a comprehensive energy bill that includes caps on emissions linked to global warming.

  06/19/2009 - By Administrator

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  At 400 years, theological distinctions define, divide Baptists

  Some of the same theological disputes that divided Baptists throughout their first 400 years continue to distinguish different branches of the Baptist family tree.

  06/13/2009 - By admin

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  Records sketchy, but Baptist women clearly left their mark in colonial America

  Women outnumbered men in many Baptist churches in colonial America, but most of their names have been lost to history, church historian Pam Durso lamented.

  06/12/2009 - By admin

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  Southern progressivism left its mark on WMU

  Southern-style Social Gospel may not be the first thing that springs to mind when most Baptists think of Woman’s Missionary Union, but Southern progressivism significantly influenced the organization in its formative years, church historian Carol Holcomb noted.

  06/12/2009 - By admin

• Former SBC leader takes on ’emergent church’

  Thirty years after ridding the Southern Baptist Convention of theological liberalism, the nation's largest non-Catholic religious organization now faces a different kind of liberalism from within, warns a Missouri layman and former member of the SBC Executive Committee.

  06/12/2009 - By Administrator