Convention center in Honolulu. HONOLULU (ABP) — Baptists meeting in one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations were reminded July 29 that beneath the glitz and glitter of the tourism industry lie moral issues that call for a Christian…
If Jesus needed the Spirit, then so do Christians today, says U.S. pastor
HONOLULU (ABP) — Today’s Christians need the Holy Spirit’s guidance, just like Jesus did 2,000 years ago, an American pastor told participants at the Baptist World Congress. Julie Pennington-Russell joined 26 other Bible scholars to teach Scripture lessons in eight…
World Baptists honor Lotz for human rights advocacy
HONOLULU (ABP) — To be true to their heritage and principles, Baptists must continue the fight for religious liberty for all people, insisted Denton Lotz, who received the Baptist World Alliance’s Human Rights Award July 30 in Honolulu. Denton Lotz…
Educator says liberation central to Jesus’ mission
HONOLULU (ABP) — A Canadian Baptist educator told delegates at the 20th Baptist World Congress July 30 in Honolulu that evangelicals in the West have tended to over-spiritualize Christ's mission to the poor and oppressed. Janet Clark, dean of Tyndale…
Longtime mission leader Avery Willis dies
BELLA VISTA, Ark. (ABP) — Avery Willis, a former Southern Baptist missionary and administrator best known as developer of the MasterLife discipleship materials used around the world, died July 30, nearly eight months after being diagnosed with a rare form of…
Christians commanded to love their Muslim neighbors, panelists insist
HONOLULU (ABP) — An American missions professor who served more than two decades in Indonesia and an Arab Baptist educator from Lebanon emphasized the need to reach out in love to Muslims during a July 29 session at the Baptist World…
North American Baptists examine series of ‘shifts’ at BWA gathering
HONOLULU (ABP) — Baptists from across Canada and the United States examined seven key “shifts” July 29 that have had an impact on the North American Baptist Fellowship. The NABF includes Baptists from the two predominantly English-speaking nations in North…
Faith and Fitness: Clinic preaches the gospel of fitness
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Fitness can, literally, be a life-and-death issue for people in underprivileged communities. So a Christian medical ministry in one of the nation’s poorest big cities is preaching the gospel of fitness through local churches. Minister and…
Faith and Fitness: Exercise good until it becomes a false god
NEW YORK (ABP) — The sixth chapter of First Corinthians describes the body as “a temple of the Holy Spirit.” For many Christians that means what they do with their body matters to God, including physical fitness. A few, however,…