My first Pastors’ Conference was in 1979, the year the Conservative Resurgence started. Electricity filled the air as man after man stood up, preached the word, upheld the perfection of that word, and planted the seed from which the CR grew. Tonight, I heard a sermon that could walk tall among the best PC messages […]
SBC Voices Dinner Monday – 4:30 PM at “The Southern”
It was foreordained. Last night, Jenni and I walked the convention area with Scott Gordon and his often poorly behaved wife Rhonda checking for a place we could invite you to gather with us. We like to have an SBC Voices get together each year. In the end, the decision was made for us. We […]
Blessed by a Song by a Group I Disdain
Visiting a church in a church in Birmingham (well, Fultondale) thinking through some issues I am going through in my church. After 14 years there I haven’t seen the progress I’d like to see. I get discouraged, angry down, frustrated. Sometimes it feels every day is a Monday. I sat…well, stood…in church and the praise […]
SBC Voices Contributors – Annual Meeting Rules Now Apply
It’s convention time. Rule 1. Posts that aren’t about the convention….save till Thursday. Rule 2. When you got em, post em.. We normally try to give 4 to 6 hours before we post. From now through Wednesday, post at will. Rule 3. Post your own. Just hit publish. If you need me to publish it […]
#SBC19: Excellent Choices in Officer Elections (1 & 2 VP)
The leadup to #SBC19 hasn’t focused much on officer elections. For the three roles of conventions president, first- and second vices presidents, only one nominee for each office has been announced to this point. J. D. Greear will, in all likelihood, be elected without opposition to serve a second year as SBC President. While many of […]
No database, no deal? Not this year but work continues on that and other aspects of abuse in churches
Did you gloss over this paragraph (emphasis is mine) of the SBC Caring Well Report? One final note: This report has required collaboration and cooperation from many Southern Baptists this year, and we pray that this first step will help Southern Baptists and Southern Baptist churches move forward. But we acknowledge that this report is […]
Birmingham Bound #SBC19
I. I seriously internally and externally debated about attending SBC ’19 Birmingham because SBC entities repeatedly refuse to hire minorities as president of one of the entities, even when they are highly qualified. There have been five entity head vacancies in the SBC over the past 18 months. Four of the five have been filled. […]
BREAKING: Sexual Abuse Advisory Group Report Released
The North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports that the SBC Sexual Abuse Advisory Group has been released. 52 pages and the pdf is available for download at caringwell.com/report/ BREAKING: The Sexual Abuse Advisory Group report is out. This comes as part of a two-year effort launched by @jdgreear and @ERLC to study the crisis of sex […]
Questions for entity heads no one will ask next week
These come from the floor of the convention, the hoi polloi, the unwashed masses of SBC messengers. Sometimes fanboys stack the mics and lob softball questions but occasionally messenger actually asks a question worth having answered. Here is a mix, serious and not so serious, of my own: Al Mohler, president of Southern Seminary: Dr. […]
BCHS: Maybe the SBC’s Best-Kept-Secret… Seriously!
I promise this will be the last thing I post regarding anything about New Orleans for the foreseeable future. I’m sure those of you who are in the unfortunate circumstance of not living here might get tired of all the doting and mushiness and PDA. 😉 I just want to point out an amazing ministry […]
A look at the records of state conventions: who’s up, who’s down.
Most Cooperative Program money, well over half of it, goes to fund state conventions and their mix of ministry causes and activities. Almost all of the state convention share of CP dollars, 90% or more last time I checked it, stays in sixteen Southern states from Missouri, down to Texas, then east through the gulf […]
MinistrySafe abuse awareness training and ChurchCares ‘Becoming a church that cares well for the abused
Last September I shared my church experience with MinistrySafe child safety system product: Implementing MinistrySafe child safety training in my local church Yesterday I gave a brief review of the SBC, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s new product, Becoming a Church That Cares Well For The Abused: A brief review of the ERLC’s new training […]