Stories tagged with: steve gaines

• ERLC 'unity' statement praised by Gaines, Graham

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, March 21, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  BP file photo by Bill Bangham

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- An extended statement by Russell Moore and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission executive committee, "Seeking Unity in the Southern Baptist Convention," has drawn praise from SBC President Steve Gaines and former SBC President Jack Graham among others.

  Meanwhile, Christian worldview analyst John Stonestreet said in a radio interview that controversy surrounding Moore, the ERLC's president, gives Southern Baptists an opportunity to "model what it looks like to have deeply held differences ... on political issues" yet "keep the main things the main things and move forward in a way that improves the reputation of the Gospel." Read More

• Bellevue reaches $1M in Cooperative Program gifts

  by Lonnie Wilkey/Baptist and Reflector, posted Tuesday, March 14, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) -- Bellevue Baptist Church has become the first church in the Tennessee Baptist Convention to send $1 million through the Cooperative Program over a 12-month period.

  In early March, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board received a check for $83,333 that brought Bellevue's total giving through the Cooperative Program to $1 million since last April 2016. Read More

• Gaines at rally: Evangelism should be priority

  by Nathan Handley, posted Tuesday, March 07, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kristi Woody

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Evangelism should be the priority of every Christian, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines said at the March 5 West Tennessee Evangelism Rally.

  "Heaven and hell are looming in the balance, and that's a lot more important than anything else," Gaines, pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, told those gathered at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.

  Gaines was the featured preacher at the rally, sponsored by Union and the ... Read More

• Singing 'Down on My Knees,' Gaines exhorts SBC to pray

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 21, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Morris Abernathy

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- In Nashville all of 24 hours while his wife Donna was home in Memphis, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines had already spoken with her four times, he said, because he loves her and simply loves to hear her voice.

  The conversations with his wife served as an analogy to encourage Southern Baptists to talk with God and tell others about our Savior, the theme of his sermon on the first evening of the SBC Executive Committee meeting in Nashville Feb. 20-21. Read More

• Gaines Q&A: from Trump to prayer for revival

  by Joe Westbury/Georgia Christian Index, posted Thursday, February 16, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Lonnie Wilkey

  ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines discussed a range of topics of interest to Baptists in a question-and-answer session with state Baptist paper editors during their Feb. 14-16 annual meeting in Ontario, Calif.

  The discussion covered President Donald Trump's first 25 days in office including the refugee crisis; controversial comments by Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission president Russell Moore during the election; churches tithing 10 percent to the Cooperative Program and state conventions splitting their CP receipts 50/50 with national entities; Millennials and the future of the convention; and the future of the nation. Read More

• 2016: Hatmaker, SBC election, wildfires among BP's most-read stories

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Wednesday, December 28, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- It was a year of unexpected election outcomes, race-related violence, ongoing global terrorism and natural disasters. It also was another year of controversial comments and consequences.

  In 2016, the most-read Baptist Press story was one about a popular author and speaker who sparked a firestorm for statements she made in an interview about gay marriage.

  This year's list of stories, compiled by the web-traffic tracker Google Analytics, also includes coverage of a tragic highway crash that took the lives of a young missionary ... Read More

• Gaines: 10 things Christians can do after election

  by Lonnie Wilkey/Baptist and Reflector, posted Monday, November 14, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Corinne Williams

  SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Following the recent election of a new U.S. president, Southern Baptist Convention leader Steve Gaines challenged American Christians to once again ask, "What can I do for my country?"

  In his Nov. 13 message to Tennessee Baptists, Gaines shared a well-known quote from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in January of 1961: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country?" An estimated 1,600 Tennessee Baptists from across the state gathered Nov. 13 at the Sevierville Convention Center for a worship service on the opening night of their annual ... Read More

• After election: The Christian response

  by Steve Gaines, posted Wednesday, November 09, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  

  Southern Baptist Convention leaders Steve Gaines and Frank S. Page issued separate articles on how Christians should respond to the Nov. 8 presidential election. "The world is watching us," Gaines writes. "May they see Jesus in us." Read More

• Gaines to EC: SBC needs 'renewal from heaven'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, September 20, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Spiritual awakening, soul winning and stewardship will be the three-pronged emphasis of Steve Gaines' Southern Baptist Convention presidency, he told the SBC Executive Committee Monday (Sept. 19).

  Addressing the EC via video because of a scheduling conflict, Gaines said America's morally deteriorating culture evidences the need for revival and awakening. He asked Southern Baptists to pray for revival using Psalm 85:6 and Habakkuk 3:2 as prompts. Read More

• Gaines: Election rhetoric can inhibit evangelism

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Conviction and kindness are the prescription of Southern Baptist leaders for the final eight weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign.

  With early voting by mail having begun in North Carolina and in-person early voting slated to begin in three states next week, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines, Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Cedarville University President Thomas White are among those to weigh in with ethical and spiritual advice for voters. Read More