By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SEVIERVILLE — “It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late,” declared Roc Collins, president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at the TBC annual meeting. The meeting was held as part of the Nov. 13-17 Summit here. “We believe Jesus is coming and because we believe He is coming we want to tell somebody who doesn’t know He is coming.
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SMITHVILLE — Nathan Thomason wanted to be pastor of an evangelistic church here. So he started one. Just nine months later, Outreach Baptist Church, which Thomason planted, has baptized 99 people. All 99 people were baptized outside in the courtyard of the horseshoe-shaped strip mall which serves as the church’s facility. Thomason uses a portable baptistry. One evening the courtyard “was
By Billy Hoffman Stewardship Development Specialist, TBC Is God leading you and your church to share Christ where He is not known? I ask it this way because spreading the gospel is both an individual as well as a Christian community activity. In Acts 13 we continue to discover the pattern of the call and empowerment of the first missionary team from the church at Antioch. From this we see
Ernest L. Easley Evangelism Professor, Union University Every church can evangelize, including yours! Sadly, it can be easier to find a reason for not evangelizing than to find a path for evangelizing. “We’re just too small,” some may say. “We don’t have enough money” or “Our members are too old.” The first church I served as pastor years ago had renovated the worship center, painted, and laid new carpet down
By Billy Hoffman Stewardship Development Specialist, TBC What does it take to advance the gospel? Luke’s record of it in the book of Acts is full of stories where the gospel advanced and how it was received by Jews and non-Jews of the first century. There is a process at work which involves resources being brought to the table for the specific goal of making Christ known, received, and worshiped
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — On a recent Saturday some folks viewing the giraffes at the Nashville Zoo could hold their smart phone up to the area sign and view via video Brent Porter, associate pastor of students, Springfield Baptist Church, Springfield, say, “God created the giraffe on day six and created it as the tallest animal in all of the world. … “The
Mike Ebert Executive Dir. of Public Relations, NAMB DENVER (BP) — Set against a backdrop of freshly snow-capped mountains on the front range of Colorado’s Rockies, North American Mission Board trustees saw firsthand how Southern Baptist church planters are countering spiritual darkness in the midst of a recreational paradise. On the Monday before their Oct. 4-5 meeting, trustees loaded onto buses to visit church planters at their places of ministry.
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -— “If you reach somebody in New York City you have the potential of reaching the world,” said Kevin Cabe, former Knoxvillian who is now a Baptist missionary in New York City. “People move here for fame, fortune, film, finance, food, and everything in between. Many Tennesseans are moving here too as we speak. … Then people
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Reaching Tennessee for Christ will involve reaching the largest metropolitan areas in the state, according to leaders within the Tennessee Baptist Convention. To help accomplish that goal, City Reach will be launched during this year’s Summit Nov. 13-17 at the Sevierville Convention Center, pending approval from messengers at Summit. City Reach was approved by members of the TBC Executive Board during
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Conviction and kindness are the prescriptions of Southern Baptist leaders for the final eight weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign. With early voting by mail having begun in North Carolina and in-person early voting slated to begin in three states this week, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines, joined other well known Baptists (Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.,
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SEVIERVILLE — “It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late,” declared Roc Collins, president
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SMITHVILLE — Nathan Thomason wanted to be pastor of an evangelistic church here. So he started
By Billy Hoffman Stewardship Development Specialist, TBC Is God leading you and your church to share Christ where He is not known? I ask it
Ernest L. Easley Evangelism Professor, Union University Every church can evangelize, including yours! Sadly, it can be easier to find a reason for not evangelizing
By Billy Hoffman Stewardship Development Specialist, TBC What does it take to advance the gospel? Luke’s record of it in the book of Acts is
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — On a recent Saturday some folks viewing the giraffes at the Nashville Zoo could
Mike Ebert Executive Dir. of Public Relations, NAMB DENVER (BP) — Set against a backdrop of freshly snow-capped mountains on the front range of Colorado’s
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -— “If you reach somebody in New York City you have the
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Reaching Tennessee for Christ will involve reaching the largest metropolitan areas in the state, according to
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Conviction and kindness are the prescriptions of Southern Baptist leaders for the final eight weeks of the U.S.
