Opinion Column

BAPTIST TRUSTEES: A MATTER OF STEWARDSHIP

September 27, 2017

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector In recent weeks, the actions of trustees, both at the Southern Baptist Convention and Tennessee Baptist Convention levels have been in the forefront. Carson-Newman University trustees took a bold action when they affirmed that the university would operate within the guidelines of the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message. Directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board dealt with the Cooperative Program and a reduced

THE WORLD — OFFSIDES AGAINST BIBLICAL TRUTH

September 26, 2017

Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Football is here. Friday night lights. Saturdays teeming with gridiron action. Sunday NFL ticket. No, I am not obsessed with football. We use a Roku and subscribe to Netflix. No live TV. Before I digress, this is not about football. The stakes are much, much higher. In football there are many actions that are penalized. One of those actions is offsides. This occurs

IN THE PRESENCE OF HOPE AND HATE

September 26, 2017

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Within a 24-hour period I was resoundingly reminded over the weekend of Sept. 23 and 24 of the spiritual battle raging around us. I was reminded Saturday of the beauty of Christ lived out in the life of those who put their hope in Him. Carolyn Boyd, wife of Forest Hills Baptist Church (Nashville) Pastor Sam Boyd, succumbed to amyotrophic lateral

DR VOLUNTEERS: THE REAL HEROES

September 14, 2017

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Last week while I was in Houston with David Dawson of our staff providing coverage of our Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers (see stories and photos throughout this issue) Willie Nelson’s song “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” came to mind. With due respect to Willie, I would have to change “cowboys” to DR volunteers.

SUMMIT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE

September 13, 2017

By Steve Freeman President, Tennessee Baptist Convention Serving as your Tennessee Baptist Convention president has been, is, and will be one of the greatest highlights of my personal ministry! What a blessing it is to be a Tennessean, much less a Tennessee Baptist. God has indeed blessed our state and convention, and I have had the privilege to experience it firsthand. I truly believe we are on the cusp of

ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT

September 12, 2017

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Any way you slice it, it was a record-setting year for the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions. The first record broken came in June when the generous giving of Tennessee Baptists blew past the previous all-time high given to GOTM, which had been more than $1.7 million dollars. The second record broken was a final 2016-2017 total of nearly $1.85 million,

THE NASHVILLE STATEMENT: A CLEAR WORD IN A CONFUSED SOCIETY

September 5, 2017

By Todd Brady Vice President for University Ministries, Union University My wife and I were in Nashville recently for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s annual conference on parenting. Hearing from folks like Russell Moore, Jen Wilken, Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) and others, we sought to learn what we could to grow in this great work of parenting. While we were there, the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood finalized The

OVERCOME BARRIERS TO SHARE THE GOSPEL

September 5, 2017

By Justin Tucker Grace Community Church, Nashville What keeps the church from sharing the gospel with those who have yet to believe? An even better question to ask is what will motivate the church to overcome the barriers to sharing the gospel message? The greatest motivator to evangelism is not a massive list of our failures, or the sad statistics that often flood mission magazines. Rather than guilting the church,

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY ABOUT CHARLOTTESVILLE?

September 1, 2017

By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBMB The recent events in Charlottesville were tragic and seemingly becoming more common in cities across America. Racism in all forms is satanic, is biblically antithetical, and should be anathema to every Christian everywhere. Christ died to save some “from every tribe, tongue, and nation” (Revelation 7:9). As Christians, we have a responsibility to speak on behalf of the gospel. And when we speak,

THE TIME IS NOW FOR CHURCHES TO COMBAT RACISM

August 31, 2017

By Steve Freeman President, Tennessee Baptist Convention As I write this article, our nation continues to struggle with the horrific events of Charlottesville, Va., that took place on the weekend of Aug. 11-12 when thousands of white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park. Along with those white supremacist protesters came a group of counter-protesters. As one could assume, violence broke

Opinion Column

BAPTIST TRUSTEES: A MATTER OF STEWARDSHIP