“For us to have such resources in our hands and not be willing to lend them to the extreme poor of the world is a sin.”
Rick McClatchy
Coordinator of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Texas, advocating investment in a CBF micro-finance initiative designed to help the world’s poorest people launch self-sustaining businesses (ABP)
“Nuclear weapons are a direct affront to God’s dream of shalom for the world. Life is beautiful, and nuclear weapons are ugly.”
Rob Bell
Author/pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Mich. (RNS)
“The numbers simply tell us that Southern Baptists are not reaching as many people for Christ as they once did. I pray that all of our churches and our entities will become totally focused on obeying Christ's commission so that our convention will truly experience a Great Commission resurgence.”
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Thom Rainer
President of LifeWay Christian Resources, announcing Southern Baptists’ lowest baptismal statistics in two decades (RNS)
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