Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (a pretty decent place to prepare for ministry, from what I have heard though still not as good as my seminary), recently offered his reflections on the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention.
I commend the entire post to you.
Below I have excerpted Akin’s comments on Mark [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Akin on Driscoll, Acts 29
Baptist21 panel live blog
In case you haven’t seen it, I live blogged the Baptist21 panel at news.sbts.edu, Southern Seminary’s new news blog.
Here is the live blog at it appeared there:
Jon Akin represented Baptist21 and asked the panelists the questions.
I missed the first question for Ed Stetzer.
B21: What is the local church’s role in the Great Commission and foreign [...]
Hey don’t I have spiritual gifts too? Reflections on Christian celebritism emulating those we respect
John Piper recently published a helpful post on the Desiring God blog, titled “Hero Worship and Holy Emulation.” There he reflected on the danger of worshipping well known Christians and the value of learning from godly men and following their example.
Kevin DeYoung followed with an equally helpful post where he noted that we should both [...]
Danny Akin has it right on young leaders and the SBC
Trevin Wax is in the midst of posting text from an interview he did with Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Here is a link to part 2 of the interview, where Akin answers the following questions:
When you look our over the horizon of the Southern Baptist Convention, what do you see as the [...]
Church and culture
In an otherwise helpful series of reflection questions coming out of Advance09, a conference I would love to have attended, Luke Wisley asked one that left me scratching my head:
1) With the ever changing culture around the church defining what a church is has become more difficult. Can you biblically define what a church is? [...]