This morning H. B. Charles, pastor of Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, Florida, announced that he intends to nominate Al Mohler for SBC President during the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. Dr. Mohler, president of SBTS, had been announced as a nominee for SBC President back in 2008, but eventually withdrew his name from consideration […]
IMB has 3,681 total field personnel headed toward 4,200
The great majority of these are full time, career overseas personnel, mostly couples but some singles. We all know that IMB counts spouses as missionaries; thus, a couple is two. Not rocket science for most SBCers but the counting policy should be understood. Some of the 3,681 (the number reported on IMB’s site) are not […]
Dear SBC churches: Give something, anything to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions
The days are shorter, skies are grayer, birds aren’t singing, and flowers aren’t blooming as much these days. So how about my adding a depressing thought. Paul Chitwood, CEO of the IMB said: A look back over the last decade of LMCO receipts reveals that 10 percent fewer churches contributed in the past five years […]
Should Beth Moore “GO HOME”? [By Mark Terry]
The internet blew up last week with responses to John McArthur’s comment that Beth Moore should “go home.” He meant that she should focus her energies on home life rather than Bible conferences. He made this comment at a pastors’ conference at his church in California in response to a question about women who preach […]
Senegal Bound
I am sitting at JFK about to board a Delta flight for Dakar and then to Ziguinchor and on to the villages. I will be doing a leadership training event for a few days then village evangelism. Lord willing, I will be back on the 11th. Contributors, give 5 hours or more to a post […]
Social Media Burnout: Thinking It Through
I have loved social media and defended its value against its detractors. Every year at our Annual Meeting I’ve bristled when our entity leaders and other platform personalities take pot-shots at bloggers, tweeters, and others involved in online communication, especially since most of those making those criticisms have blogs and are active on Twitter. It […]
Not gone unnoticed: The complementarianismness mess, CaringWell/abuse, hanging around past your shelf life…and bacon, brethren.
I’m in therapy having worn out my facial musculature, exhausted by SBC events. Used to be that regular SBC news caused a single eyebrow to be raised and I could alternate between the two of mine. Now the demand is always for both. To wit: May I, ahem!, tout my own humble stuff on […]
An Admonition for Women Serving Christ (Etta Linton)
“Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these WOMEN who have CONTENDED FOR THE GOSPEL at my side…” Philippians 4:2 Ladies, we are not secondary to gospel ministry. Our job here on this earth isn’t JUST to make things pretty and sweet and delicate and feed the men and build them up. Note: […]
An Encouraging Report from Louisiana
On May 7th 2019 Steve Horn was elected as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. Since that time I cannot recount how often I have been asked by friends from within and without Louisiana what I think about the new hire and when I would share my thoughts here on Voices. However, I […]
What does the future look like for state conventions?
What does it say about the future of Southern Baptist state conventions that the movement among them is to voluntarily reduce their revenues by cutting the percentage of Cooperative Program offerings that are kept and spent within a particular state’s borders thereby reducing their ability to hire staff and do ministry? What it says is […]
The 15 SBC leaders you never heard of who control most of the CP
Here they are: Thomas “Call me Tommy” Hammond, Georgia Baptist Mission Board Rick Lance; Alabama Baptist Convention State Board of Missions Jim Futral; Mississippi Baptist Convention Board Tommy Green; Florida Baptist Convention Gary Hollingsworth; South Carolina Baptist Convention Milton Hollifield; Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Brian Autry; Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia Todd Gray; […]
Is Dealing with Abuse in the SBC a Distraction from Our Mission? (Casey Hough)
Within the Southern Baptist Convention, some have implied that the current focus on addressing abuse in our churches and entities is a distraction from our mission, which has historically been assumed to be evangelism and missions. However, to view efforts to deal with the sin of abuse in SBC churches and entities as a distraction […]