Archive for Great Commission Resurgence
Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Report to the Executive Committee
Posted by: | CommentsHere is the video of the GCR Task Force interim report. It is similar in essence to the one given to the meeting of the SBC Executive Committee on Monday, Febraury 22, 2010. After viewing the video or reading the report, discuss your thoughts, impressions, expectations, enthusiasm, or disappointment in the comment thread below the video.
GCR Progress Report from GCR on Vimeo.
Podcast Episode 21
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Timid. Reserved. Reticent. All of these are fine adjectives, and none of them describe our guest on this week’s podcast. Dr. Ergun Caner, president of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, joins us for a conversation that ranges from apologetics to camels to task forces. Also this week, we welcomed our newest team member at SBC Today, David Worley, though he found out it’s difficult to get a word in edgewise. He’ll be more prepared next week, I’m sure.
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Enhanced Podcast: Who is More Lost?
Posted by: | CommentsAfter reading Ephesians 2:1 again for the umpteenth thousandth time it was like reading it for the first time. Ephesians 2:1–”and you he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins”. Do you realize that lost means dead? It means that we were once dead and God, through the atoning blood of Jesus made us one with him and we were born again, and through the power of the Holy Spirit, we were raised from the dead to walk in a new life. Excuse me while I shout and throw a hymn book. 
We seem to have advanced the debate of a Great Commission Resurgence to deciding who is more lost. If you remember Dr. Mohler made a motion at the 2009 SBC in Louisville that a committee be formed; ” concerning how Southern Baptists can work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great Commission.” (Item #12, P.57) This motion has produced debates that range from the state conventions being “bloated and bureaucratic at every level” to the task force being organized in order to find ways to keep younger pastors from abandoning the SBC. Now, one on the GCRTF seems to expand this motion with the idea that a name change is needed in order to reach the lost.
Podcast Episode 20
Posted by: | CommentsOur discussion in this episode is given entirely to the topic of a potential changing of the name of the Southern Baptist Convention. Peter Lumpkins joins us as our guest to talk about his recent series of posts on the topic. This podcast is especially notable because it’s the quietest Tim has been in the history of the podcast, and if you know him, you understand the significance.
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Links to items discussed:
- Peter Lumpkins’ series on SBC name change: Part One, Excursion, Part Two, Conclusion
- J.D. Greear’s blog post raising the issue
- Dave Miller’s post in favor of a name change
iPlan Giving…A or B?
Posted by: | CommentsWell, it seems the Missouri Baptist Convention will not be out-done by our brethren in the South. Our church has just faced, at our first quarter business meeting last night, the distasteful decision forced upon us by our convention after our annual meeting this past October. As part of our budget approval process we had to make a decision regarding how we desire our state convention to allocate the Cooperative Program funds we give to them. The need for this decision comes from the ongoing battle within our convention…no, not the rival conservative factions and the ‘peace committee’…the other one (I never knew Southern Baptist life could be so ‘interesting’!). Welcome to Missouri! Read More→
Podcast Episode 17
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We began the podcast today with four of us, but Scott had to be taken out in the second quarter due to an injury. Robin, Tim, and I bravely soldiered on, however, completing the podcast without any relief at all. Discussion centered mainly on the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, only being intentionally diverted by me at the end to discuss Christmas plans in our local churches.
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Links to items discussed:
- GCR Task Force making enormous progress
- Danny Akin’s “Future of the SBC” posts: Introduction / Part One
What Is The Great Commission?
Posted by: | CommentsIn an attempt to answer such a question one must return to the statement that brought about the term. That statement is found in Matthew 28:18-20. One would not, I believe, impose a personal perspective by adding Acts 1:8 into this mix as we examine these two various readings in order to determine the marks of the Great Commission being fulfilled. The doorway that enters this examination should be the biblical principles found in Scripture. The door handle that opens this door to our examining room is the historical examples from church history and the hinges that this door swings on is modern day methods.
The scriptural authority for the Great Commission. Of course we all know that the scriptural authority calls for us to take the gospel into all of the world. With that in mind there needs to be two questions answered. Read More→
Morris Chapman – Just One More Soul
Posted by: | CommentsDr. Morris Chapman has written an article for SBC Life describing his vision for his final year at the helm of the Executive Committee for Southern Baptists. There is no doubt that I have disagreed with Dr. Chapman in the past over certain issues, but on this article I raise a loud AMEN! I pray that all the members on the Great Commission Task Force read what he has written here because I believe that Dr. Chapman has got to the heartbeat of our problems in the SBC. Do we pray for “just one more soul?” And after one more soul is delivered are we repeating this prayer? Is this happening in the typical Southern Baptist pastor quiet time? Is this happening in the lives of those who occupy the pews in our churches? While in some instances that may be true, I am fearful that in a majority of cases, that is not true. Yet the bigger question for those of us who are voicing this prayer of burden is whether we are putting feet to our prayers. Below is an excerpt from Dr. Chapman’s article:
Podcast Episode 11
Posted by: | CommentsThe gang’s all here for episode 11 of the SBC Today podcast. In this episode, we start with no clear direction, and quickly wander off in all directions. Along the way, we discuss mission board vacancies, the GCR task-force, and whatever else comes to our ADD-infested minds. The good news is, this is our shortest podcast so far, coming in just under half an hour.
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Links to items discussed in this week’s podcast:
- Ronnie Floyd: GCR Rumors
- Danny Akin: Dispelling Myths; Myth #1
- Gary Ledbetter: Transition for SBC’s Big Three
We are Family!
Posted by: | CommentsIn viewing Dr. Al Mohler’s forum at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary I found myself in agreement with the resolution of his analogies. He presented analogous formulas to represent where the Southern Baptist Convention came from and where she finds herself today. Based on those analogous formulas Dr. Mohler ended up with a presumption that we must drastically change our organizational structure and the funding apparatus in order to fund an missiological mindset for today’s younger generation. According to Dr. Mohler, we must move into the future with our structural and institutional methods open. In other words, what we have today will not look like or function like what we will have tomorrow. Also, what we move to tomorrow will not look like or function like what we will move to in the future. Dr. Mohler’s analogy is spot on–if we view the Southern Baptist Convention form a corporate mindset. Dr. Mohler’s analogies were correctly based as he gave much historical data illustrating how we have reorganized in the past based on the corporate structure. Which brings me to the purpose of my article.
