With the reality of martyrdom fresh on their minds, the messengers appeared to accept the four new challenges for IBSA churches with a renewed understanding of their importance. Read…
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2017 IBSA Pastors’ Conference: Love the gospel
Decatur, Ill. | The IBSA Pastors’ Conference began Tuesday with an impassioned plea for leaders to heed the apostle Paul’s words in Titus 1:5-9: “The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town: one who is blameless, the husband […]
2017 IBSA Pastors’ Conference: Live with gospel urgency
Decatur, Ill. | Two days after a mass shooting at a Southern Baptist church in Texas, Illinois pastor Randy Johnson urged pastors to preach every message like it could be their last opportunity to deliver the gospel. Johnson, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Decatur, filled in at the IBSA Pastors’ Conference for Southern Baptist […]
2017 IBSA Annual Meeting: Making modern-day pioneers
Decatur, Ill. | Illinois Baptists were urged to remember their pioneering ancestors as they take the gospel to the more than 8 million people in the state who don’t know Christ. One year before Illinois’ bicentennial celebration, the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Baptist State Association focused on “Pioneering Spirit” and asked churches to […]
TX shooting: SBC leaders to visit grieving pastor, church
Editors note: SBC President Steve Gaines will visit Sutherland Springs, TX Nov. 7. Gaines was scheduled to appear at the IBSA Pastors’ Conference and Annual Meeting in Decatur Nov. 7-9. IBSA’s Pat Pajak and Tabernacle Baptist Church Pastor Randy Johnson will take his place at the Pastors’ Conference. Maryville First Baptist Church Pastor Tom Hufty […]
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