Thursday, April 15, 2004

• Church gives $77,000-plus to Annie Armstrong offering on Easter

  by James Dotson, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  KATY, Texas (BP)--A Houston-area congregation that pledged its entire Easter morning offering to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions gave more than $77,000 in an effort “put its money where its mouth is,” the church’s pastor, Randy White, said. Read More

• Complete care includes faith, Baptist Child Care Execs say

  by Erin Curry, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--In accomplishing the task set before them by Christ to minister to children in need, the Baptist Child Care Executives believe complete care includes helping children develop faith, according to at statement released by the organization.

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• Church attendance 'not an issue' with children's home

  by Erin Curry, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Tennessee Department of Children's Services wants the Tennessee Baptist Children's Home to take children in its care to church, despite recent reports that the state agency has halted placements to the facility based on that issue. Read More

• Speakers: Confessions rooted in history, guard against heresy

  by Michael Foust, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  Confessions of faith Union University President David Dockery spoke to a group of Baptists April 5, saying that confessions of faith have “a normative place in the life of believers.” Photo courtesy of Union University

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--What role should confessions of faith play in Southern Baptist life? Are they un-Baptist and a violation of Christian liberty? Or, is their usage a good way to guard against the teaching of heresy in seminaries and on the mission field?

  Southern Baptist leaders, professors and pastors gathered in Jackson, Tenn., April 5-6 to consider what it means to be a Baptist and whether modern-day Baptists have strayed away from their historical roots. More than 10 Southern Baptist leaders spoke at the conference, titled “Baptist Identity: Is there a Future?” Read More

• Profs: Biblical church practice includes use of church discipline

  by Michael Foust, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--Baptists must have a biblical view of church discipline if they are to have a biblical understanding of church membership, two Southern Baptist professors said during an April 6-7 conference at Union University. Read More

• Mohler: SBC must build on ‘second chance’ for healthy future

  by Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--The conservative resurgence gave the Southern Baptist Convention a second chance at establishing biblical orthodoxy but did not guarantee the denomination a healthy future, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said in the keynote address at a conference on Baptist identity April 6 at Union University. Read More

• Panel: conservative resurgence was about theology, not politics

  by David Roach & Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Theology, not politics, was the fuel that fired the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention, members of a panel at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said April 13 during a 25th anniversary commemoration of the resurgence. Read More

• Mass. gov. files bill to seek delay in same-sex ‘marriage’ ruling

  by Staff, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  BOSTON (BP)--With the state attorney general refusing to follow his request, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney introduced an emergency bill April 15 that would give him the power to ask the state’s high court to delay its controversial same-sex “marriage” ruling. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Aiding or abetting?

  by Judy Woodward Bates, posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 (20 years ago)

  DORA, Ala. (BP)--In the Book of Acts we read about the first deacons, who were appointed to ensure equal treatment for all the widows being cared for by the church. Certainly the church of today, as did the early church, has a responsibility to help those of their flock who are unable to care for themselves. And just as certainly, we are to reach beyond the fold of fellow believers. Whichever the case, though -- flock member or not -- the primary responsible party is the immediate family. Read More