Thursday, October 31, 2019

• SBC Digest: Greenway addresses Baptists in Texas; Spurgeon College's first-ever basketball game

  by By SBC Seminaries Staff, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  Adam W. Greenway addresses Baptists in Texas; Spurgeon College holds its first-ever basketball game

  Greenway calls for cooperation at SBTC meeting

  By Alex Sibley

  ODESSA, Texas (BP) -- "If there was ever a time where we must come together for the sake of reaching Texas and America and the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it is now," said Adam W. Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, during his sermon address at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention in Odessa, Texas. Read More

• Baptists differ over evangelical movement

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- A historian, an ethicist and a pastor -- all Baptists -- displayed a difference of opinion on the usefulness of the word "evangelical" and the state of evangelicalism in an Oct. 29 conversation at the Museum of the Bible.

  Thomas Kidd, history professor at Baylor University and prolific author, discussed the crisis in evangelical Christianity with Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Thabiti Anyabwile, pastor of Anacostia River Church in Washington, D.C. Kidd interacted with Moore and Anyabwile regarding his new book, "Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis." Read More

• New England Baptists restructure for greater impact

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  MANCHESTER, N.H. (BP) -- Following three other local Baptist association mergers, the New Hampshire Baptist Association became the fourth to dissolve and join the Baptist Convention of New England during the association's annual meeting on Oct. 19.

  The merger is part of an overarching plan set in motion by the BCNE titled "Uniting New England Baptists." The plan seeks to combine assets of smaller Baptist associations with the BCNE to provide more resources for local churches to create vibrant expressions of Baptist life. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Unique deacon follows God's call

  by Scott Patton, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  The newest deacon of First Baptist Church Indiahoma, Okla., has Down Syndrome. Pastor Scott Patton says, "the Holy Spirit that called Barry to be a deacon is the same Holy Spirit that called me to preach." Read More

• Gallaty book reveals what nearly killed him

  by Joy Allmond, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Robby Gallaty isn't who you think he is.

  At least that's what billboards in the greater Nashville area said of Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in nearby Hendersonville, in the weeks leading up to the church's 2016 Easter service.

  The message -- meant to mimic a smear campaign -- gained national media attention and garnered 14,000 attendees on Easter Sunday, doubling the church's usual attendance of 7,000. Read More

• Bible Study: New hearts in Christ

  by Staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups. Read More