By Paul Chitwood President, International Mission Board Looking back on my first full year as your IMB president, the words that come to mind are: “Thank you.” Thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving souls across the globe daily amid hardship and persecution, and for upholding Your servants as they go forth to share Your gospel. Thank you, Southern Baptist family, for placing your confidence in me to lead our missionary
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are two distinctives that bind Southern Baptists together. The first is our shared biblical belief system. Unfortunately, the Bible can be mishandled in many ways and our Southern Baptist forefathers recognized that, so in 1925, they took the providential step to clearly define what Southern Baptists believe about the Bible. That document is known as the Baptist Faith and Message
By Chris Turner Director of communications, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board [email protected] There are two types of organizations in our world: Those who have had a crisis and those whose crisis hasn’t yet hit. For years I’ve been leading crisis communications and media relations workshops for all types of organizations and I usually open those training sessions with that statement. The response is usually an uncomfortable laugh, especially since I don’t
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director My No. 1 desire is to see the spiritually lost people of Tennessee won to saving faith in Jesus Christ, and it is weeks like last week that give me hope that together as Tennessee Baptists, we might see that happen. Summit, our annual gathering of Tennessee Baptists, is so much more than just a meeting. It has become a rich
By Lonnie Wilkey As one might expect, evangelism was a popular topic during this week’s Summit held at First Baptist Concord in Knoxville. The theme for the 145th annual meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Convention was Win TN By All Means. Several excellent videos focusing on evangelism were featured throughout the sessions. During the Tuesday night session on Nov. 19, Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee
By David Green President, Tennessee Baptist Convention Tennessee Baptists are amazing people. I already knew that through years of serving in various Tennessee Baptist Convention committees, boards and institutions. However, after traveling literally thousands of miles from one end of the state to the other this year as president of the TBC, I can say I love Tennessee Baptists more than ever. Serving as president has allowed me to be
By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB You and I came to the celebration late, but we are invited to stay for eternity and as we worship, God begins to teach us new concepts, new subtleties, new songs. What is God teaching you as you worship? Here are a few things He’s been teaching me. (1) When we worship, life becomes a festival rather than a contest. Not a show.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] In 2015, Tennessee legislators passed a state law that authorized local school boards across the state to put policies in place allowing students to be excused during the school day to attend a class in “religious moral instruction.” The freedom to have release time for biblical or moral instruction actually has occurred for more than a century and possibly longer. It was
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director You shared your concerns. We carefully listened. And now I want to prayerfully respond on behalf of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Several of us from the TBMB have recently engaged with over 500 Tennessee Baptists during nearly two dozen listening sessions across our state. We initiated these sessions with the sole purpose of learning from you and using what we
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing writer, Baptist and Reflector Jerry Welch, pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Jackson, says parents should set an example for honoring their pastor. He notes that the late Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, once said, “The family goes home from church and has ‘roast’ pastor for lunch. Kids need to see their parents show respect.” Welch adds, “Raise your children in the church.
By Paul Chitwood President, International Mission Board Looking back on my first full year as your IMB president, the words that come to mind are:
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are two distinctives that bind Southern Baptists together. The first is our shared biblical belief
By Chris Turner Director of communications, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board [email protected] There are two types of organizations in our world: Those who have had a
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director My No. 1 desire is to see the spiritually lost people of Tennessee won to saving
By Lonnie Wilkey As one might expect, evangelism was a popular topic during this week’s Summit held at First Baptist Concord in Knoxville. The theme
By David Green President, Tennessee Baptist Convention Tennessee Baptists are amazing people. I already knew that through years of serving in various Tennessee Baptist Convention
By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB You and I came to the celebration late, but we are invited to stay for eternity and as
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] In 2015, Tennessee legislators passed a state law that authorized local school boards across the state to
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director You shared your concerns. We carefully listened. And now I want to prayerfully respond on behalf
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing writer, Baptist and Reflector Jerry Welch, pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Jackson, says parents should set an example for honoring their