Baptist Press Tag Search

Stories tagged with: southern baptist convention

Found 63 stories matching your search criteria.

Displaying page 5 of 7 total pages.

  • EC calls for increased CP to remedy IMB shortfall
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, September 22, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Photo by Morris Abernathy
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- In response to the International Mission Board's announcement of a personnel reduction, the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee has adopted a resolution urging Southern Baptist churches to give "more than ever before" through the Cooperative Program.

    The resolution, which was adopted without opposition, stated, "At this urgent hour of desperate need in our nation and around the world, we, the members of the SBC Executive Committee, pledge to encourage and lead our churches to give more than ... Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Believing God for our upcoming Southern Baptist Convention
    by Ronnie Floyd, posted Wednesday, May 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

    SBC President Ronnie Floyd urges Southern Baptists to "refuse unbelief" in order to "believe God … for the next Great Awakening in America" and to "believe God … that He wants to ignite our churches to plant Gospel churches by the thousands nationally and internationally." Read More

  • EC advances Golden Gate Seminary name change to SBC
    by Staff, posted Thursday, February 19, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary will become Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention if messengers to the next two SBC annual meetings approve a Feb. 17 recommendation of the convention's Executive Committee.

    The EC also approved for recommendation to the June 16-17 SBC annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio:

    -- a proposed amendment to the North American Mission Board's ministry statement to include planting churches overseas in agreed-upon instances with the International Mission Board (see separate story today).

    -- SBC bylaw amendments for the potential use of electronic voting devices in the convention hall and to establish a quorum on all SBC business matters as those present at the time of a vote. Read More

  • Despite ice storm, Exec. Committee moves ahead
    by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, February 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Photo by Roger S. Oldham
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- "Brrrrr," Hawaii pastor Chris Metcalf responded to the roll call Feb. 16 for the SBC Executive Committee's evening session in frozen Nashville.

    Metcalf, pastor of Lihue Baptist Church in Hawaii, was among 44 EC members who comprised a quorum to conduct business in behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention, which will hold its annual meeting June 16-17 in Columbus, Ohio. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: 8 months as SBC president
    by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, February 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Ronnie Floyd reflects on lessons he's learned and concerns he's heard during his first eight months as the Southern Baptist Convention's president. "Change is in the air," he writes. People are realizing "that we cannot fix ourselves" at a time when Southern Baptists "have a great story to tell." Read More

  • 1 city, 2 yearnings grip SBC's Ronnie Floyd
    by Art Toalston, posted Thursday, February 12, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Photo by Art Toalston
    ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (BP) -- One city is central to everything Ronnie Floyd says and does as the Southern Baptist Convention's president.

    Columbus.

    Two overarching matters are tied to Floyd's focus on Ohio's capital, site of SBC's annual meeting in June:

    -- prayer for spiritual awakening in America.

    -- reaching the world for Christ. Read More

  • CP 3.25% ahead of projection
    by Staff , posted Tuesday, February 03, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 3.25 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection, and are 4.97 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Frank S. Page. The total includes receipts from state conventions and fellowships, churches and individuals for distribution according to the 2014-15 SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Own up, wake up, rise up!
    by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, January 26, 2015 (9 years ago)

    SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- SBC president Ronnie Floyd urges Southern Baptist churches "to own up, wake up and rise up" -- "to come together before God in clear agreement, visible union and extraordinary prayer for the next Great Awakening and for the world to be reached for Christ." Read More

  • How Southern Baptists became pro-life
    by David Roach, posted Friday, January 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

    SBHLA Photo
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- In 1979, Larry Lewis picked up a copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and saw a full-page ad listing the Southern Baptist Convention among denominations that affirmed the right to abortion.

    "Right there beside the Unitarians and universalists was the Southern Baptist Convention," Lewis, a St. Louis pastor who went on to become president of the Home Mission Board (now the North American Mission Board), told Baptist Press. "... That bothered me a lot." Read More