Trustees unanimously elected Ben Mandrell, a native of Tampico, Ill., as LifeWay Christian Resource’s 10th president June 28 during a special-called meeting in Atlanta. Mandrell, 42, is the lead pastor of Storyline Fellowship in Arvada, Colo. were he preached an emotional message June 23 – two days after his nomination to lead LifeWay Christian Resources […]
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Reclaiming the ‘movable middle’
While analysts talk a lot about the rise of the ‘nones’ who claim no church affiliation, there’s a new, more encouraging group. They don’t dislike church, and they just might come back. A rise in the number of adults looking to the Bible for answers gives the church opportunity to draw more people to biblical […]
As declines continue, Floyd calls Baptists to evangelize
Southern Baptist churches reported fewer members, worship attenders, and baptisms in 2018, according to the latest Annual Church Profile (ACP) report compiled by LifeWay Christian Resources in cooperation with Baptist state conventions. Church membership declined by 192,404, down 1.28% to 14.8 million members, while average weekly worship attendance declined by 0.43% to 5.3 million worshipers. […]
Pastor urges prayer for churches in Illinois
Recent abortion-expanding legislation, high-profile pastoral failures, and a pending statewide “exodus” are a few of the concerns cited by Chicago pastor Nathan Carter. “Yet Christians must not despair or retreat,” Carter writes in his call to prayer on ERLC.com. “Ours is not the first age to have rulers who ‘frame injustice by statute’ (Ps. 94:20). […]
Gender roles in church discussed during convention
A panel discussion near the end of the SBC’s annual meeting in Birmingham might have flown under the radar because of its place on the schedule. But not its subject matter. The Wednesday afternoon conversation on “Indispensable partners: The value of women in God’s mission” brought together women and men to discuss the doctrine of […]
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