As many have said, the Southern Baptist Convention is at a key crossroads in its history. The IMB, NAMB and Executive Committee are all in need of new heads. The denomination is in decline as far as number of members … and the membership numbers are radically skewed (16 million reported; 6-8 million actual most [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Why I’m excited about the SBC annual meeting
Because I like good food, I live in Louisville, out of towners won’t know where restaurants are and — drum roll please — I can thus get to the restaurants first and enjoy the food while everyone else is frustrated on the road.
Beat that.
In all seriousness, I am excited about the SBC annual meeting for [...]