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| 6/2/2010 |
PERSPECTIVE: The downside of the GCTF recommendations -- would likely harm the SBC and its Executive Committee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Great Commission Task Force (GCTF) has recommended gutting the SBC Executive Committee (EC) by taking away $2 million of its budget! This amount is 30 percent of the receipts allocated by the Southern Baptist Convention to the EC through the Cooperative Program (CP) Allocation Budget.... Read More |
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| 4/30/2010 |
Young pastor nurtures cooperative vision
OIL CITY, La. (BP)--Chad Mills has led First Baptist Church in Oil City, La., to double its Cooperative Program giving during the last two years, increase its outreach into the community and become a more mission-minded church. Read More |
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| 4/30/2010 |
GCRTF VIEWPOINT (Jimmy Epting): EKG thrust, CP support & GCR report
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| 3/26/2010 |
GCR Task Force Collection
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| 2/22/2010 |
Empowering Kingdom Growth emphasis is 'a quiet movement of the Holy Spirit'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Recently Carlisle Driggers passed a small church that was taking on a new building project, and he noticed a sign that explained, "We're building for Kingdom growth." Read More |
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| 2/22/2010 |
South Texas church gains Kingdom focus
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| 2/16/2010 |
FIRST-PERSON: The Spirit & the Kingdom
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--When the EKG initiative was still in the dreaming and planning stage ... Read More |
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| 2/12/2010 |
EKG study: Churches see measurable gains
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| 12/21/2009 |
FIRST-PERSON: EKG is vital to resurgence
BARTLETT, Tenn. (BP)--For the past 15 years, the Southern Baptist church where I am pastor has experienced a steady stream of new believers into our fellowship ... Read More |
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| 9/25/2009 |
Morris H. Chapman: A leadership retrospective
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, has called on Southern Baptists –- every church, every pastor, every entity head, every Sunday school class or small group –- to pray this next year for "just one more soul" in a prayer initiative to support the Great Commission Resurgence. Thus, Chapman, who announced his projected 2010 retirement date at the fall Executive Committee meeting (September 21-22), will close his 18-year tenure with the Executive Committee in the same way he began -- with a call for corporate prayer and personal evangelism.
In his 1991 address as SBC president, Chapman introduced to Southern Baptists the theme that was already a hallmark of his ministry -- the theme of prayer. He observed that "through the years Southern Baptists have been known as people of prayer." He then asked, "How shall we be known in our generation?" At the conclusion of the sermon, he reminded the messengers and guests of the intense season of prayer that preceded Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God." Reiterating his earlier question, "Down through the years Southern Baptists have been known as people of prayer. How shall we be known in our generation?" Chapman pleaded, "Oh God, give us America; Oh God, give us America; Oh God, give us America!"
Later that same year, he called for 1992 to be a "Watchman National Prayer Alert," asking churches to "pray in" the New Year and through the entire year for a spiritual awakening in our country.... Read More |
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| 9/21/2009 |
Thriving church credits 'Making Change'
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| 8/19/2009 |
Church is 'healthy' after EKG emphasis
FORT STOCKTON, Texas (BP)--Along Interstate 10 in the Texas panhandle sits a small Southern Baptist church that has caught a vision of its role in accomplishing Kingdom purposes as it intervenes in the lives of people who need Jesus. Read More |
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| 6/29/2009 |
DOMs challenged to live as servant leaders
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| 4/16/2009 |
'Faith Stimulus Package' makes impact
BARTLETT, Tenn. (BP)--While the rest of America was in an uproar over an economic "stimulus package" from Washington, leaders of Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tenn., were planning a stimulus package of their own. Read More |
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| 2/16/2009 |
New vision leads church in Mich. to 'Eternal Impact'
FLUSHING, Mich. (BP)--By most standards, Westside Baptist Church in Flushing, Mich., was a church that didn't need a lot of help. They were running about 250 in worship and baptizing two dozen people a year -- mostly adults. Their receipts totaled around $300,000 and they were investing more than 11 percent in missions.
"Our church doesn't fall under the old 80/20 rule. We have more than 20 percent of the people carrying the load here," said pastor Ed Emmerling, who grew up in Westside and has served as its pastor since 2002. "But we still need to expand our vision."
Located about 10 miles outside Flint, Westside's community has been hard hit by the country's contracting economy, Emmerling said.
"The whole country is struggling now, but our area has been struggling for two or three years, in financial ways at least," the pastor said. "So it is an area where a lot of people really don't have much hope, other than getting out of here."
With so many challenges in the community, Westside needed a fresh vision of God doing something through the congregation even beyond what He already was doing. They found that vision, Emmerling said, in "Eternal Impact," the newest component of the Empowering Kingdom Growth emphasis in the Southern Baptist Convention. The church worked through the study this past fall, beginning in September and wrapping it up in mid-December.
"Eternal Impact has caused our people to begin to look outside themselves and bigger than themselves for what God may want to do with them or involve them in, bigger than they ever dreamed," Emmerling said.
A surge in evangelism has been one result of the study, Emmerling reported. Two women came to Christ, and new believers have brought other family members to church. Read More |
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