ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention denounced the Gulf of Mexico environmental calamity in a resolution June 16. “God has designed us with a dependence on the natural resources around us and has assigned us a dominion of…
SBC approves slightly reduced budget, recognizes retiring executives
ORLANDO, Fla. — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla., approved a pared down budget for 2010-2011 and honored two agency presidents who retire this year. They approved a $199,822,090 Cooperative Program allocation budget recommended by the SBC…
SBC resolutions highlight Gulf, family, homosexuality
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention decried ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, focused on the family and opposed the normalization of homosexuality as messengers approved seven resolutions with no debate during the SBC annual meeting in Orlando…
SBC messengers defeat attempt to open records of task force proceedings
ORLANDO, Fla. — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 15-16 defeated an attempt to unseal written and audio recordings of Great Commission Resurgence task force proceedings. The task force recently announced it would seal the…
Suburban Atlanta pastor Bryant Wright elected SBC president
ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) — In a field crowded with successful pastors and marked by disagreement over the recommendations of a denominational task force, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting required a run-off to elect as their new president…
Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says
ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has overwhelmingly reaffirmed its intention to spread the gospel throughout the nation and around the world, members of the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force told reporters June 15. At least 75…
Southern Baptists rally around ‘Great Commission’
ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly June 15 to accept recommendations of a task force appointed last year to rally fragmented factions in the nation’s second-largest religious body around the “Great Commission,” Jesus’ command in the…
SBC overwhelmingly approves ‘Great Commission Resurgence’ report
ORLANDO (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly June 15 to accept the recommendations of a task force appointed last year to rally fragmented factions in the denomination around the Great Commission, Jesus’ command in the Gospel of Matthew…
WMU elects new president, urges unhindered mission
ORLANDO (ABP) — Participants at the 122nd annual meeting of national Woman’s Missionary Union elected a new president and honored its outgoing president's five years of service and heard missions challenges June 13-14. Meeting just prior to the Southern Baptist…
President’s address promotes Great Commission Resurgence proposal
ORLANDO, Fla. — Out-going Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt promoted the Great Commission Resurgence during his president’s address June 15. Using Joshua 14 as his primary text, he asked if Southern Baptists were at their own Kadesh Barnea, the…
Leaders urge B21 group to stay in the SBC hall, support task force
ORLANDO, Fla. — Supporters of the Great Commission Resurgence task force took a final opportunity to garner votes for their report when they encouraged 1,300 primarily younger pastors attending the B21 conference Tuesday to leave the luncheon and become fixtures…
Pastors Conference speakers affirm Great Commission Resurgence task force
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Great Commission Resurgence is a “natural and spiritual outgrowth of the conservative resurgence,” seminary president Danny Akin told participants in the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference, July 13-14. Akin, a member of the Great Commission Resurgence task…