Richmond, Va. | International Mission Board President David Platt announced his desire to leave as head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s largest mission-sending agency, after a term of almost four years and a tumultuous period of cutting budgets and reducing missions staff to balance an outsized budget. Platt will return to the pastorate. “I am […]
Greear, Hemphill set up repeat of 2016 election
The announcements by J.D. Greear and Ken Hemphill that they will both run for president of the SBC sets up a repeat of the 2016 election. In that one, young-and-Reformed Greear represented the potential for a generational handoff and a firming up of Calvinist theology within the convention. But in a near tie that promised […]
What would Jesus do about harassment?
Given the proliferation of accusations, perhaps we should review the subject; What are we teaching young men about their behavior, and young women about their value? Jesus has a few lessons. Read…
What is Pioneering Spirit? Churches urged to take lessons from Illinois’ early settlers
“We think these are at the very core of what it means to have a pioneering spirit,” Executive Director Nate Adams said of church planting, evangelism, missions-giving, and leader development. Read…
Opening doors:Church planters’ strategy is meeting people by meeting their needs
There are lots of places in a state of 13 million people where there is little or no evangelical witness. Here are two stories of Illinois Baptists and their mission fields. Read…
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