A few years ago Alan Nelson used a phrase that briefly set SBC Twitter ablaze. He wrote, “take the ship” and ol’ Dave Miller, who suffers from a debilitating case of thalassoharpaxophobia fell on his fainting couch moaning. The Guinea hens that circle his website heard the commotion and sounded the alarm. And thus a […]
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Editor’s Note: Since the documentation is so important to the piece below we are going to include links to referenced content within parenthesis following the relevant items. Please read the piece thoughtfully and click the links to see the supporting information. Justin Sampler, pastor of First Baptist Church, Inola, Oklahoma and doctoral student at the […]
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A current hot-button issue among Southern Baptists is the task force created to oversee an independent investigation into the handling of sexual abuse allegations by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. We reached out to a faithful brother who is an attorney to ask about the ramifications of the investigating bodies’ request that the Executive […]
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At the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in the year 2000, a report from a committee appointed to review and revise the convention’s confessional statement, the Baptist Faith and Message, included these words in the preface to its report: Baptists are a people of deep beliefs and cherished doctrines. Throughout our history we […]
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At the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in the year 2000, a report from a committee appointed to review and revise the convention’s confessional statement, the Baptist Faith and Message, included these words in the preface to its report: Baptists are a people of deep beliefs and cherished doctrines. Throughout our history we […]
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Kyle Whitt has released a video with several specific and distressing claims about the doctrinal fidelity and inner workings of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board discovered during his two years working to plant a church in Washington state. From Whitt’s Reddit post: For the past two years I’ve been working with NAMB […]
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As you likely know, Owen Strachan is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention. How should we think about that move? For starters there are lots of people his departure is good for. It’s great for everyone connected to Grace Bible Theological Seminary, so great that “great” really doesn’t quite capture how good it is. Go look […]
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On this episode Jeff sits down with Randy Adams, Executive Director of the Northwest Baptist Convention, and candidate for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention. You’ll get to know Randy better – how important the BCM was in his walk with Christ, his time pastoring, how he came to the Northwest, and what his […]
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It’s been a while since we released an episode of our podcast so I thought I would drop in to tell you about some upcoming episodes we hope you find helpful. The CR:V site is SBC-facing and as you likely know the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting is coming up. This year we have four […]
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CR:V has received the following document from Danny De Armas, current Chairman of our North American Mission Board (NAMB) Trustees. As you will see, the document articulates NAMB’s approach to planting churches, complementarianism, and women pastors. We are thankful for the work of NAMB planting healthy churches as well as their commitment to the clear […]
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In a previous post, I talked about the 17th Century Baptists of England. Switching both centuries and continents, we now consider the 18th century Baptists of America. It is important to remember that these Baptists did not invent associations and cooperation among independent churches, so much as they built upon the conclusions their Baptist forefathers […]
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By the 1670s the political climate in England was such that Baptists thought it prudent to show their solidarity with other English nonconformists like the Presbyterians and Congregationalists. This led to what is known today as the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith that was actually first written and published in 1677.[1] Chapter 26, […]
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Yesterday we released an article describing concerns over egalitarianism in NAMB church plants. Since then, the most frequent question we’ve received is whether or not these are current NAMB churches. Each of these churches was verified on the NAMB church plant database prior to publication. Each church was re-verified today and that is documented below. […]
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The recent news about North American Mission Board church plants identifying women in their congregation as pastors may have piqued your interest in what the process is like for those interested in planting. Some insight can be found on the Southern Baptist subreddit on Reddit.com in a thread named “Church planter in residence at an […]
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Southern Baptists are a great-commission people. As a result, Southern Baptists are a church-planting people. Southern Baptist are also a confessional people who, as a result, have real clarity on what the important terms “church” and “pastor” mean according to Scripture. This clarity allows Southern Baptists to accomplish what they intend in church planting, namely […]
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Approximately one year ago the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee formed a task force to “review the past and present activities” of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). The Baptist Press reporting on the Task Force’s formation is a helpful refresher: The Executive Committee action comes in response to “ongoing concerns” cited by EC […]
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Aaron Ren has released an episode of his podcast, The Masculinist, with critical insights for those interested in learning lessons for today from church history. The focus of the episode is the battle for conservative theology within the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The quote in the title of this post can be found around […]
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Chapter 24: Second London Confession Baptist Protestantism Embracing a full and enthusiastic consent to the leading doctrines of the Reformation, particularly in its English Puritan form, Baptists made their most … More
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