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  • Floyd to pastors: 'We're in it with you'
    by Staff, posted Wednesday, March 25, 2020 (4 years ago)

    Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, answers questions about the decision to cancel the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting and about the struggles pastors and churches are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

  • VISION 2025: More leaders needed to reach every community, every nation

    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, March 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    LIBERTY, Mo. (BP) -- Nathan and Rachel Rose had felt called to overseas missions. They prayed. They searched the Scriptures. They participated in missions. As they did, God clarified the call.

    "I felt like the Lord was just reminding me that you could go and be on the front lines or you could stay home and encourage people to go, send people and raise money and support for missions," Rose said. "We felt like, if we're not going to be on the frontlines, we're going to be at a church that is creating and fostering an environment where people are getting sent overseas, as well as providing resources." Read More

  • Vision 2025 sets a God-sized goal for number of new churches
    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, March 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    BOSTON (BP) -- If anyone had looked at a map of Southern Baptist church plants in Boston just 15 years ago, there would have been just two. And the city's spiritual desert extends far beyond just Southern Baptists. According to a Barna Research study from 2017, of the least-churched cities in America, Boston is fourth (and Springfield, Mass., just an hour and a half away is third).

    David Butler, the North American Mission Board's Send City missionary in Boston, says Christians for decades have prayed for new, Bible-believing churches in the city that was once North America's spiritual epicenter. For much of those decades, God seemed slow to respond to the prayers. Read More

  • 62 cents a year could fund historic number of new IMB missionaries
    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, March 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE, (BP) -- If every Southern Baptist increased giving to international missions by the price of a single cup of coffee over the next five years, the International Mission Board would see historic growth in the number of missionaries it could fund.

    That's the cost of the first of five strategic action statements of Vision 2025, which was approved by the Executive Committee in February and will be brought for messenger approval at the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting. The vision begins where Southern Baptists started 175 years ago, with a common purpose to send more missionaries to the nations. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Conviction about Southern Baptist cooperation
    by Matthew J. Hall, posted Friday, February 28, 2020 (4 years ago)

    Vision 2025, outlined by SBC EC President Ronnie Floyd, is "a clear and compelling vision for Southern Baptists," says Matthew J. Hall. It "is exactly what is needed at this present moment in our denominational life." Read More

  • EC WRAP-UP: Pastors' conference, sex abuse, ERLC top agenda
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- A polarizing 2020 Pastors' Conference program, a Texas church led by a registered sex offender and questions regarding the work of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission drew decisive action from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee at its Feb. 17-18 meeting in Nashville. Read More

  • Floyd issues Vision 2025 call to reach every person with the Gospel
    by Jonathan Howe and Amy Whitfield, posted Monday, February 17, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd announced a new five-year initiative in conjunction with multiple entities to reach every person with the Gospel in every town, every city, every state and every nation.

    In his address Monday night (Feb. 17), Floyd presented this Convention-wide initiative to members of the EC and a packed crowd in attendance for the group's February 2020 meeting. Read More

  • Vision 2025 unveiling, Credentials Committee report highlight SBC EC meeting agenda
    by Jonathan Howe, posted Friday, February 14, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- SBC Executive Committee president Ronnie Floyd is expected to issue a call for Southern Baptists to reimagine a new future of reaching the world for Jesus Christ at the February SBC Executive Committee meeting next week (Feb. 17-18) in Nashville.

    In his remarks with Baptist state publication editors and state executives earlier this week in Tucson (see related story), Floyd announced the unveiling of "Vision 2025" -- a call to reach every person for Jesus Christ in every town, every city, every state and every nation. Floyd's address is scheduled for Monday night in the first of two scheduled plenary sessions of the 86-member board. Read More

  • Baptist state editors talk unity, vision
    by George Schroeder, posted Friday, February 14, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    TUCSON, Ariz. -- Saying "Gospel Above All" is "more than a slogan," Southern Baptist Convention president J.D. Greear urged unity in remarks this week at the annual meeting of the Association of State Baptist Publications.

    Citing Romans 14, Greear suggested Paul's exhortation and admonishment to believers not to pass judgment on nonessentials applies to some current issues in the SBC. "Gospel Above All" is the theme chosen by Greear for the upcoming 2020 SBC Annual Meeting, just as it was for the 2019 Annual Meeting. He said for the theme to become reality, Southern Baptists must not divide over tertiary issues. Read More