evangelism

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

COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: IMPACTING THE NATIONS

June 16, 2017

By Lyle Larson Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Goodlettsville I have never been a member of Evansville Baptist Church but that congregation will always hold a special place in my life, having had a significant impact on my understanding of the Cooperative Program. Evansville Baptist is in a small community in northwest Tennessee near Dyersburg. When I was a teenager who had been called to ministry, that church allowed me

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

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

SEND LUNCHEON: ‘EVANGELIZE OR FOSSILIZE’

June 13, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — A full-capacity audience gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center Monday (June 12) for a discussion about evangelism at the North American Mission Board’s 2017 Send Luncheon which coincided with the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference. “NAMB exists to come alongside churches and help them be on mission,” NAMB president Kevin Ezell told pastors. “The mission of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To push back

BACKYARD KIDS CLUBS EXTEND VBS’ REACH

June 13, 2017

Editor’s Note: You can listen to Vicki Hulsey and Donna Blaydes discuss Vacation Bible School and Backyard Kids Clubs during Episode 9 of Radio B&R, the official news podcast of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN – For those who think Vacation Bible School is outdated and no longer works, think again. National statistics show that 25 percent of all baptisms reported

CROSSOVER & HARVEST AMERICA SHARE TIMELESS GOSPEL MESSAGE

June 13, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — It started Friday, June 9 — the rumblings of an awakening. More than 700 voices worshiped at North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., kicking off the weekend’s Crossover Arizona and Harvest America events. The North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) Crossover Arizona and Greg Laurie’s Harvest America joined forces to host a three-day evangelistic outreach involving training, street evangelism and service projects before culminating in

SMALL CHURCHES CAN MAKE BIG DIFFERENCE

June 1, 2017

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector VONORE – Former Tennessee Baptist Convention president Doug Sager is the first to admit that he has never been a person to “stay inside the box.” And neither have most of the churches he served during his 62-year ministry. Upon retiring as pastor of First Baptist Church, Concord, in Knoxville in April of 2013, Sager began later that year as interim pastor of

GOD USES LAYPEOPLE: JOE AND LINDA LEDFORD

May 31, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector TOWNSEND — Joe and Linda Ledford and other Baptists were in the parking lot of the only grocery store in this small resort town in East Tennessee. They were standing at a table giving out free ice cream cones, Bibles, and Bible storybooks to people. As the couple and other Baptists explained that the ice cream was free, they told the

PAUSING FOR POIGNANT MOMENTS

May 30, 2017

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are moments in life that are so obviously important that they need not scream to be recognized. The magnitude of their presence halts the daily hustle and quietly demands that we notice, and reflect, and determine that the nostalgic moment becomes a prelude to something greater. I believe God has granted to Tennessee Baptists such a poignant moment and we

evangelism

EZELL: SBC NEEDS A ‘GOSPEL CONVERSATION RESURGENCE’

COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: IMPACTING THE NATIONS

MOTION FOR SOUL-WINNING TASK FORCE AFFIRMED AT SBC