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Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas celebrated two important milestones: the 100th anniversaries of the Baptist Faith and Message statement and the Cooperative Program. Nearly 10,600 messengers registered for the June 11-12 annual meeting, topping... Continue Reading »
Comparing the Cooperative Program to the Mighty Mississippi, Tony Wolfe told Southern Baptist messengers, “What we’ve been entrusted is not some rippled stream. It is a fast-flowing river, and it is full of torrential currents that support the entire... Continue Reading »
During the June 10 afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving. Referencing Joshua 4, he shared the story of God instructing... Continue Reading »
Pastors were encouraged to keep their focus on God’s work and God’s approval during the second session of the SBC Pastors’ Conference June 9 in Dallas. The session featured sermons by David Kim, Jamie Dew and Josh Powell at... Continue Reading »
Clint Pressley was overwhelmingly reelected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His second term will commence at the close of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. David Morrill, a member of Applewood Baptist Church in Colorado, contested Pressley’s... Continue Reading »
SBC Pastors’ Conference President D.J. Horton will occupy a spot on a special committee alongside former Send Relief President Bryant Wright and Ted Traylor, longtime pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., to study the future of the... Continue Reading »
A sweltering Saturday in Dallas served as the capstone to a week of gospel-centered outreach and service to the communities in the metroplex as Southern Baptists gathered for Crossover Dallas to reach the city. Volunteers from churches across the... Continue Reading »
“The hour of magnetic concern” had arrived at the SBC Annual Meeting, as the Tennessee Baptist and Reflector put it. The Convention’s confession of faith was the topic at hand. Messengers were debating whether to tailor it specifically to... Continue Reading »
Welcome to our hometown of Dallas. GuideStone, the only one of the historic boards of the Southern Baptist Convention based west of the Mississippi River, has grown up alongside the city. In 1918, when Southern Baptists selected Dallas as... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is relaunching its abuse prevention and response website with expanded resources to equip churches to create safe spaces for children and adults to worship God unhindered by abuse. An updated Essentials 2.0 curriculum,... Continue Reading »
It was a challenging time for the SBC’s Cooperative Program (CP). The U.S. economy slowed. Baptist leaders committed embarrassing and costly sins. As some alleged creeping liberalism in the Convention, doctrinal squabbles threatened cooperation. The SBC president put it... Continue Reading »
Resolutions to be presented to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting include calls to ban sports betting and pornography and strong statements on the natural family and religious liberty. The SBC Committee on Resolutions released its proposed resolutions... Continue Reading »
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