Amy Whitfield and Jonathan Howe have a new podcast called “SBC This Week” in which they discuss news and current events in the Southern Baptist Convention. This week’s podcast includes an interview with David Platt in which Jonathan asked Dr. Platt some of the questions Southern Baptists have been asking him on blogs and in other forums. It is well worth your time to listen to the podcast.
The episode is called: Executive Committee Recap and an Interview with David Platt.
The Platt interview starts around minute 18, but the entire podcast is worth your time. Jonathan asks Dr. Platt the questions we’ve heard so often. Why not just freeze hiring? How this draw-down affects the gospel effectiveness of the SBC.
Inquiring minds want to know. (Few are old enough to get that!)
You can subscribe to “SBC This Week” through these links: iTunes — Stitcher — TuneIn Radio — RSS
Thanks for sharing this Dave. I hope we can all continue to think, talk and pray about these issues with a Christlike humility and a thankfulness for one another, even when we bring different perspectives to the table.
It is an amazing interview.
That was interesting although nothing new was said. I appreciate Platt’s taking questions.
There was a subtle point made, that the main or only strategy, that of a fully funded mssy who relocates permanently to the field and learns language and culture among the people, is not the biblical pattern. I’m not sure that is a valid point. This is an expression of the generation gap in viewing denominational approaches to serving Christ. Regardless, declining institutionalism is forcing the changes he is proposing, not the emergence of a more biblical strategy.
Of course the bigger news in the podcast, and I had planned to write a piece on it, was the announcement that the Florida Baptist Convention would reduce its staff by almost one half.
Quite a contrast to Georgia.
Sort of. The GBC declares their intent to sell the finest HQ building in the SBC…and some other stuff.
William:
Maybe Georgia has a nice HQ building. But the BGCO building here in Oklahoma City is also a decent building.
Including the parking lot, It takes up a whole block on May Avenue from NW36th to NW37th Streets. It is a six story building.
It was good interview. I continue to admire Platt’s spirit and heart. In short I really like the man.
I do agree with William T that nothing really new was said. however, repeating the same message can at times be good is making clarification etc. So in this respect it perhaps was advantages.
I went back and read Sharps’s email of a few days ago in which he delineated Platt’s four points for choosing to ask for vets to leave and yet send new missionaries to the field. For me it is just not a convincing argument, I cannot get there. I can well accept the fact however, that there is information I do not have that Platt does. I think Platt could help this situation if he would more fully address the rationale for vets/newbies.
“I went back and read Sharps’s email of a few days ago in which he delineated Platt’s four points for choosing to ask for vets to leave and yet send new missionaries to the field.”
D.L., do you have a link to the communication you note?
Max
It came as an email to me on Sept 10 at 2:13 PM. Not having any connection I assume it came to most everyone, unless it was for DOMs
I am not real sharp when it come to this tech stuff, in fact really pretty dumb. I will ask my 13 y/o grandson if there is a way to put a link from email to “Voices”….unless someone here can help.
The only way I know how is to forward it to another email.
P.S. OK Tarheel stop laughing, you will get old someday 😉
Thanks D.L. I assumed it was a “public” email embedded in an article somewhere. No need to provide it – sounds like it might have been for DOMs-only.
P.S. When Tarheel is as old as we are D.L., we’ll be in Heaven and the SBC theo-politicians will be fussing about something else (if there is an SBC then).
Max
Yeah and to be honest I won’t miss it
William T
I will look forward to your post re FBC downsizing by one half. I still have friends in Florida, some real unhappy campers at this point. Makes me glad I am in Montana.
I agree w DLP @3:41. Sorry. I cannot embrace it. I have tried to do so