Stories tagged with: j.d. greear

• Greear: Put Gospel proclamation before preferences

  by Grace Thornton, posted Tuesday, June 11, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Southern Baptists are at a crossroads, not regarding their doctrine or mission but regarding "what kind of Gospel witnesses we will be in an age like ours," said J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

  During his president's address Tuesday morning (June 11) in Birmingham, Ala., Greear gave three defining values he believes should shape the future of the SBC. Read More

• J.D. Greear's new book urges Gospel 'above all'

  by Joy Allmond, posted Thursday, May 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- J.D. Greear believes the future of the church is bright because of the Gospel. But the Southern Baptist Convention president also noted the church can be susceptible to placing secondary things -- like programs, strategies and messages -- above the Gospel.

  Greear aims to steer the attention and allegiance of the church back to the Gospel through his latest book, "Above All: The Gospel Is the Source of the Church's Renewal," available June 1 from B&H Publishing Group. "Gospel Above All" is also the theme for the SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., June 11-12. Read More

• Biweekly prayer calls bolster 'Who's Your One?'

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, April 18, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Every other Tuesday afternoon for 15 minutes, leaders across the Southern Baptist Convention pause for a conference call to pray for their "one" -- the person they're seeking to share the Gospel with as part of the "Who's Your One?" evangelistic initiative. The initiative is a joint effort between SBC President J.D. Greear and the North American Mission Board. Read More

• Greear to be nominated for 2nd term as SBC pres.

  by David Roach, posted Friday, April 12, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Pennsylvania pastor K. Marshall Williams announced today (April 12).

  "In these troublesome and turbulent times, we need a pastor-preacher-prophet that will stand in the gap and lead with confident, consistent, convictional, Christo-centric, courageous courtesy," Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, wrote in a statement announcing his intent to nominate Greear at the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala. Read More

• Greear: Ordinary people called to spread the Gospel

  by Andrew J.W. Smith, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The Gospel needs to spread throughout the world by ordinary people, just like it did in the book of Acts, J.D. Greear said during Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's chapel yesterday (March 26).

  Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, used the example of Stephen in Acts 6-7 to bring this point home, describing the blueprint for the spread of Christianity as more like Stephen's dramatic sermon before the Sanhedrin than the Sermon on the Mount. Read More

• Churches named by Greear in abuse report respond

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- After a workgroup of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee released a statement Feb. 23 on 10 churches noted by SBC President J.D. Greear in a report on sexual abuse, Baptist Press attempted to contact the churches for their response.

  One of the churches listed by Greear is not Southern Baptist. Among the other nine, six offered reactions to BP. Read More

• EC workgroup's sex abuse report draws varied responses

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Reactions have varied to a Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee workgroup's statement on sexual abuse. The statement came in response to SBC President J.D. Greear's public naming of 10 churches he said should be asked to assure the convention they are working to correct their policies and procedures related to abuse. Read More

• With 'Gospel above all,' Greear tackles sex abuse

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Maintaining his signature theme of the "Gospel Above All," Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear detailed a prescription to battle sex abuse and its enablers at the SBC Executive Committee meeting Feb. 18 in Nashville.

  "We serve a God who laid down His life to protect the vulnerable," Greear said in his presidential address. "How dare we proclaim that Gospel with our mouths and then turn a blind eye when the vulnerable in our midst cry out for help?" Read More

• Sex abuse study 'to own our error,' Greear says

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Morris Abernathy

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptists should not seek to defend themselves in response to recent sexual abuse reports but should hold offending churches accountable, SBC President J.D. Greear told the SBC Executive Committee Monday night (Feb. 18).

  In his report to the committee, Greear presented 10 calls to action based on initial recommendations from the Sexual Abuse Presidential Advisory Study he initiated last year. Read More

• Greear on CNN: Abusers 'have no place' in SBC

  by David Roach, posted Monday, February 18, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear told CNN he is calling the convention to disfellowship churches "that show a wanton disregard that allows abuse."

  Appearing today (Feb. 18) on CNN's "New Day," Greear also said he will call tonight at an SBC Executive Committee meeting in Nashville for "enhanced language" in SBC documents to underscore the convention's longstanding belief abuse "is out of step with" The Baptist Faith and Message.

  "Churches that show a wanton disregard that allows abuse, that allows it to happen, that ... Read More