It’s hard to believe that the SBC Pastors’ Conference is less than a week away. I hope you are planning to join us in Phoenix, Arizona June 11-12. We have 12 preachers from 12 average-sized Southern Baptist Churches who will be lifting up the name of Jesus as they preach expositionally through the book of Philippians. Including today, we have only 4 days left before the conference. So I am posting a call to pray for one speaker each day until the day of the conference. I hope you will take a moment each day to pray for these men as they finish up their sermon preparations.
Spencer Plumlee will preach Monday afternoon. He will be preaching Philippians 3:12-16. Spencer is the Senior Pastor of Riverview Baptist Church in Osage Beach, MO. He is an excellent preacher, and we are excited to hear from him as he preaches at the 2017 SBC Pastors’ Conference.
Perhaps reading through the text of Philippians 3:1-11 will help you as you pray. The text below is from the new Christian Standard Bible published by Holman Bible Publishers. The preachers at the conference will be preaching from the CSB.
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, 14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus. 15 Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you. 16 In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained.
This video that was recorded at SWBTS and was previously published here at SBC Voices may also help you as you pray. Spencer shares some ways that we can be praying for him at the end of the video.
Spencer Plumlee PC Interview from SBCPC on Vimeo.
Thank you for praying! We hope to see you in Phoenix!
