The team tasked with searching for a new president & CEO of the SBC Executive Committee is asking for prayer. The group also has launched a 21-day prayer initiative and created a day-by-day guide to encourage specific prayers for each day the rest of the month.
“As Christians we understand that prayer is essential in our walk with Christ, and as a committee we felt it was essential to start our process with a season of prayer,” said search team Chairman Adron Robinson. “In John 15:5 Jesus says without Him we can do nothing, so to begin this assignment without seeking God’s direction would be a huge mistake.”
The group is asking for people to people to pray for the EC trustees, staff, interim President/CEO Willie McLaurin, Vice President for Communication Jonathan Howe, the Sexual Abuse Task Force and SBC President Ed Litton.
It’s also asking Southern Baptists for help in seeking God’s provision of unity, wisdom, patience, discernment, integrity, faithfulness and accountability for the team.
“We hope that God would sanctify our hearts as a committee and as a convention,” Robinson said. “There are many things trying to divide us as a convention, but seeking God will sanctify and unify us. We want to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and work together to fulfill God’s will.
“The entire Southern Baptist Convention should join in this prayer initiative, and we hope our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world will also join this effort.”
While the team welcomes prayers at any time, they are specifically asking people to join in prayer from March 11-31.
A letter from the chairman
Dear Southern Baptists,
As we begin the process of seeking God’s choice for the next president & CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, let me humbly ask two things of you.
First, be patient. We cannot rush this process and miss God’s direction, and we cannot hastily move forward without all the necessary information. It would be unwise for us to begin the search for an SBC Executive Committee president & CEO until the Sex Abuse Task Force and Guidepost have released their report.
Second, please be prayerful. We invite all Southern Baptists to join us in praying for this search team, for God’s candidate, and for our Convention. God knows who and what we need at this crucial time in the life of our Convention; so we as a Convention need to seek His face and discern His will.
If we do these two things, I am confident that when this process is complete we will be pleased with what God has done in us personally and in our convention collectively.
Pastor Adron Robinson
Chairman, SBC Executive Committee President Search Team