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LGBT PROTESTERS FEW, USE SBC LOGO ON FLYERS

June 22, 2017

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — A protest that an LGBT advocacy group had billed as “historic” was hardly noticeable on the opening day of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix, bystanders said. But flyers distributed by the group included the SBC 2017 logo and theme. About 50 people appeared to join in Faith in America’s (FIA) protest asking the SBC to remove homosexuality and transgenderism

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PERSONAL SOUL-WINNING, EVANGELISM TASK FORCE NAMED

June 22, 2017

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) – Professors, pastors and a state convention leader comprise a new task force to suggest how Southern Baptists might reap a greater harvest through personal evangelism and evangelistic preaching. Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines announced the team Wednesday (June 14) during his closing remarks at the 2017 annual meeting in Phoenix. Messengers authorized June 13 the appointment of the task force at

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TRUSTEES: IMB NOW ON FIRM GROUND, PLATT REPORTS

June 21, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Through Southern Baptists’ “faithful, generous and consistent giving” of more than $98 million to the Cooperative Program and approximately $153 million to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, the International Mission Board has reached financially stability, IMB President David Platt told the entity’s trustees June 12. “That’s breathtaking: over $250 million given from Southern Baptist churches for the spread of the Gospel among the nations,” Platt

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FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP IS A HEART MATTER, PANEL SAYS

June 21, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Good financial stewardship stems from a right relationship with God, and the Bible has plenty to say about managing God’s resources God’s way, a group of pastors said during the President’s Panel on Stewardship June 14 at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix. Led by SBC President Steve Gaines, the panel consisted of Hance Dilbeck, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church

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EZELL: SBC NEEDS A ‘GOSPEL CONVERSATION RESURGENCE’

June 17, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Pledging “NAMB will do its part,” North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell said the SBC needs a “Gospel Conversation Resurgence” if declining baptism numbers are to turn around. “If one member from each of our 47,000 churches shares the Gospel each day, it would result in over 17 million Gospel conversations in a year,” Ezell told messengers at the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention in

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LMCO REACHES FOURTH LARGEST TOTAL EVER

June 16, 2017

Compiled by B&R Staff RICHMOND — The 2016 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions contained a “good news, bad news” scenario. The good news is that the offering reached its fourth highest total ever, closing at approximately $153 million, according to data released June 7 by the IMB. The bad news is that the amount was down by more than $12.8 million or 7.7 percent from last year’s record

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SBC DENOUNCES ‘ALT-RIGHT WHITE SUPREMACY’

June 15, 2017

By Tom Strode Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Messengers to the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting denounced “alt-right white supremacy” in a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday (June 14) after a tumultuous day of refusing to address the issue. It appeared maybe fewer than 10 messengers in the Phoenix Convention Center hall voted in the afternoon session against a resolution on “the anti-gospel of alt-right white supremacy.” The “alt-right,” a

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MOTION FOR SOUL-WINNING TASK FORCE AFFIRMED AT SBC

June 15, 2017

By Seth Brown Baptist Press PHOENIX — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention proposed 11 motions during two 15-minute scheduled segments of the 2017 annual meeting in Phoenix. Messengers voted affirmatively on one of the motions, submitted by Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board and member of First Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Ga., to authorize the convention’s president to appoint a task force to study how Southern

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MESSENGERS OK 9 RESOLUTIONS, TO VOTE ON ‘ALT-RIGHT’ PROPOSAL

June 14, 2017

By Tom Strode Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Messengers to the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions Tuesday (June 13) repenting of prayerlessness and calling for leaders to practice biblical morality before deciding late at night to vote Wednesday on a previously rejected proposal denouncing the “alt-right.” The approved resolutions covered some hot-button theological and moral issues, but the proposed resolution on the “alt-right” — a movement that supports white

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H.B. CHARLES JR. ELECTED PRESIDENT

June 14, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX — The 2017 SBC Pastors Conference proved historic on many levels including the unanimous election of H.B. Charles Jr., pastor of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., as the conference’s first black president. The election took place during the afternoon session of the conference at the Phoenix Convention Center, June 12. In addition to the historic nature of the officer elections, this year’s lineup of speakers

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