Notice the French? I’m nearly 600 days into my Duolingo French! Impressive, right?
During the discussion as to whether we should go to Anaheim, I noticed another “Grumpy Old Man” moment I wanted to vent about.
A (likely perfectly nice) young pastor said that we should ONLY have SBC conventions in the DEEP SOUTH because that is where most of our churches are and that it would be cheapest. As someone who spent 32 years pastoring in Iowa and the last almost 4 in Nebraska, I say,
GET OFF MY LAWN!
The SBC needs to expand outside the SEC-territory base, and one way to do that is to support state conventions beyond our Deep South borders and raise our profile in what we used to call frontier states. I remember when World Changers used to come to Iowa, and we loved it. It made a huge difference, but then they told us it was too far to come.
I am sure that brother who said we should stay in the Deep South for the conventions is a good guy, but this Nebraska pastor disagrees with him strongly!
