GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Churches reach community, keep focus on Jesus during Christmas By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Keeping Christ at the center of Christmas is a challenge that seems to get tougher each year. Fortunately, many churches around the country, including a large number of churches in Tennessee, are doing their part to guard […]

NEAR-TRAGIC INCIDENT BECOMES WITNESSING TOOL

Ripley pastor Rocky Gilliam uses nail gun accident to generate gospel conversations By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] RIPLEY  — Rocky Gilliam might have the most unique evangelism method in history. Not many people, after all, can use a personal story about being shot in the head with a nail gun as a segway […]

GREEN: KEEP DOING WHAT WE DO WELL

TBC’s new president plans to continue focus on statewide evangelism By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — As David Green begins his tenure as president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, his primary plan is to encourage Tennessee Baptists to keep their focus on what past TBC presidents have emphasized in recent years […]

WAYS TO WIN

With creative methods of evangelism, Tennessee Baptists are finding new ways to win… As Tennessee Baptists, we have Five Objectives, but the First Objective — “To see 50,000 people a year saved, baptized and set on the road to discipleship by 2024” — is the key one. We want to see people come to Christ […]

REMEMBER THE SIMPLE BLESSINGS THIS THANKSGIVING

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector With Thanksgiving drawing near on Nov. 22, I want to share a neat story that took place nearly two weeks ago. In the Oct. 24 issue of the Baptist and Reflector, we ran a feature story on Ivan Raley, pastor of First Baptist Church, Byrdstown. Raley is an […]

A CLARION CALL AND NOT JUST A THEME

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director In 1873, a young Dwight L. Moody stood in the vestry of a Baptist church in Dublin, Ireland, talking with Henry Varley, an influential British revivalist preacher. During the course of that conversation, Varley uttered words that rocketed through Moody’s soul and altered the course of […]

EVANGELISTIC INCHES, PART V

  Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Jesus’ mandate to make disciples is clear in Matthew 28. The ongoing teaching and learning of the disciple is necessary. The fourth evangelistic inch is “the disciple.” The messenger is never […]

EVANGELISTIC INCHES, PART IV

By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Editors note: This is the fourth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. The previous three columns can be found at baptistandreflector.org and on the The Reaching App.  Thus far, we have discussed the first two Evangelistic Inches — “the desire” and the “the tool.” […]

EVANGELISTIC INCHES, PART III

By David Evans TBMB evangelism team Ask someone a question and they shoot to a Google search. We have knowledge but are not necessarily knowledgeable. We live in a time where Christian music, books, seminaries, podcasts, community groups are everywhere. We live in a time of resource like no other time. We have resources at […]