TBMB DIRECTORS HOLD FIRST VIRTUAL MEETING
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — The board of directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board made history April 21 — and they didn’t even have to leave home. Thanks to technology, COVID-19 did not wipe out the scheduled April meeting of the TBMB as an overwhelming majority of the board member joined a Zoom […]
DAVIS: BE KNOWN BY YOUR FAITH
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — In his weekly COVID-19 update on April 8, Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, reminded Tennessee Baptists that the world is watching. “How is this generation going to remember how we, as Christians, responded to this crisis?”
MORE CHANGE — BUT THE MISSION REMAINS
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are two things about which we can be certain in these uncertain days: God is on His throne sovereignly ruling over the universe, and change seems to be a regular occurrence and comes quickly. About a year ago I wrote about a change that few […]
PASTORAL LEADERSHIP IN THE COVID-19 STORM
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director I loved being a pastor. It was my joy and honor to spend 34 years as a pastor in a local church, so obviously I have a special place in my heart for the men who faithfully labor behind the pulpit serving God and His people. […]
PANDEMIC PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY TO ‘THRIVE ON OUR MISSION’
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, Christians can draw encouragement from Scripture and the history of the church, said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In comments March 16 to a group of pastors across the state via a conference call […]
DAVIS OFFERS INSIGHTS ON SBC HAPPENINGS
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — A number of issues have risen to the surface across the Southern Baptist Convention and following the recent Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Board of Directors meeting held in Nashville, Feb. 17-18, 2020. The issues have ranged from the 2020 SBC Pastors’ Conference lineup, to the Ethics and Religious Liberties […]
WHERE ARE RECRUITS FOR WORLD CONQUEST?
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There is a growing reality that causes me great concern. I’m scanning the horizon looking for the billowing dust of reinforcements charging toward the spiritual battle, but all I see are wisps from the few. Where are the supply of recruits enlisted for world conquest? Where […]
THE QUIET HEROES OF THE TBC AND SBC
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Let me tell you about my friend Scott Helton. Scott is a schoolteacher. He is also a pastor. He isn’t “part time” at either. I’ve known Scott since he was a teenager and I was honored to be his pastor. He’s had a heart for ministry for […]
STAYING FOCUSED ON OUR PASSIONATE PRIORITY
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are two distinctives that bind Southern Baptists together. The first is our shared biblical belief system. Unfortunately, the Bible can be mishandled in many ways and our Southern Baptist forefathers recognized that, so in 1925, they took the providential step to clearly define what Southern […]
SUMMIT SUMMARY: EVANGELISM AT FOREFRONT
TBC leaders, messengers focus on how to ‘Win TN, by all means’ during 145th annual meeting Editor’s Note: See stories from the 2019 Summit in Knoxville throughout this issue. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] KNOXVILLE — Tennessee Baptist Convention messengers gathered at First Baptist Concord, Nov. 17-20 for four days of inspirational […]