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…
Messengers embrace report, focus on Great Commission
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention embraced a future uncertain but focused on the Great Commission when a solid majority of messengers adopted the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force June 15. “We are a Great Commission…
Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention 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. At least 75 percent to 80 percent…
Georgia church planter elected SBC president
ORLANDO, Fla. — In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year. Bryant Wright, senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church…
Frank Page elected president of SBC’s Executive Committee
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) — Frank Page was elected as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee June 14 in Orlando, Fla. A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Page will succeed Morris H. Chapman, who is…
OPINION: Executive Committee treats new boss shoddily
ORLANDO, Fla. — Frank Page was elected president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee during a bizarre and shoddy exercise June 14 in Orlando. Page is currently vice president for evangelism of the North American Mission Board and is…