Prayer was the topic of conversation when the president of the Southern Baptist Convention met with the President of the United States Oct. 11.
In the Oval Office, President Bush meets with SBC Executive Committee president Morris Chapman, center, SBC president Frank Page and his wife Dayle. The day’s events, including a news conference and a plane crash into a New York City high-rise building, reduced a 45-minute meeting to 20 minutes.The meeting “primarily focused on prayer, on what prayer means to him” and how it undergirds and strengthens him, SBC president Frank Page said of the President.
Page, pastor of First Baptist Church, Taylors, told Bush “perhaps the message that I’ve heard more than anything else” about the president from Southern Baptists “was that we pray for the President and Mrs. Bush” every day, especially for “wisdom, strength and endurance.”
Page told the President that Southern Baptists feel strongly connected to him “because of our soul connection, because we believe we have a man [in the White House] who knows Christ and is not afraid to talk” about his Christian faith.
Page acknowledged that all Southern Baptists do not agree with the President on some issues, but they are praying for him “as scripture commands.” – BP