Baptist Press Archive

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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  • Church leverages Boomers for Kingdom impact
    by Stephanie Heading/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo courtesy of FBC Vidor
    VIDOR, Texas (BP) -- America's Baby Boomers are aging. In 2014, the last of the Boomers -- those born between 1946 and 1964 -- crossed the threshold into their 50s; and whether they liked it or not, they received their first invitation to join AARP and entered the ranks of "senior adults."

    Aging Boomers present new challenges for churches, who now must balance ministering to younger Boomers, who often do not consider themselves to be seniors, and their Builder Generation parents, many of whom are still active and involved in the same churches and ministries as their own children. Read More

  • PrayerLink repurposes ministry objectives
    by Roger S. Oldham, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Phil Miglioratti opened the winter leadership meeting of PrayerLink asking whether Southern Baptists are more interested in developing prayer guides (booklets and other resources about prayer) or prayer guides (individuals in congregations who help guide church members to be prayer warriors in the house of God).

    Drawing his lesson from the purification of Jesus recorded in Luke 2, Miglioratti pointed to two individuals in Scripture who serve as prayer guides for 21st century believers -- Anna and Simeon. Read More

  • Judas documentary critiqued as heresy, revisionism
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Image from Wikimedia Commons
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- A BBC documentary suggesting Judas Iscariot wasn't purely a traitor has drawn criticism from evangelicals as, among other things, "an attempt to undermine the Christian Gospel."

    "This is nothing new," said Jerry Vines, a former Southern Baptist Convention president who has written and preached on Judas. He noted attempts since the second century to portray Judas more favorably than he is presented in Scripture -- as a traitor who delivered Jesus to the authorities for 30 pieces of silver. Read More

  • Court seeks new ideas on mandate accommodation
    by Staff, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has made an uncommon request of religious nonprofits and the federal government in an effort to resolve a disagreement regarding the Obama administration's abortion/contraception mandate. Read More

  • IMB missionaries welcomed by N.C. Baptists
    by K. Allan Blume/Biblical Recorder, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo by K. Allan Blume
    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP) -- Addressing 33 retired International Mission Board missionaries at a dinner, North Carolina Baptists' Executive Director Milton Hollifield said, "Even though your place of assignment may be changing, you are still Southern Baptist missionaries."

    The audience was part of the 80 IMB missionaries from North Carolina who accepted the organization's Voluntary Retirement Incentive (VRI) or Hand Raising opportunity (HRO) during the past few months as part of IMB's organizational "reset." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Seeking God's will
    by Jim Richards, posted Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Texas Baptist leader Jim Richards relays the principles he uses for seeking to know God's will: the Bible, the Holy Spirit, godly counsel, preaching and teaching, and circumstances. "When our will is submitted to His will," Richards writes, "He will show us the proper path." Read More