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Socially Responsible Investing Choices, part 1 — Secular “ESG” and GuideStone Funds

December 30, 2020 by Garrett O’Hara

Every so often, the advertisements on my social media feeds become heavily saturated with “socially responsible” or “ESG” investing products. There are also get plenty of “non-responsible” investing products and perhaps even a few overtly “sinful” investing products such as VICE (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, etc.) and TOKE (cannabis!). Lots of us are going to be […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: biblically responsible investing, BRI, ESG, GuideStone, investing, SBC, socially responsible investing, Southern Baptist Convention, SRI

A Book of Numbers: What the 2019 SBC Annual Church Profile Data Tells us About the Southern Baptist Convention

June 5, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

The 2019 annual church profile for the Southern Baptist Convention came out recently and the numbers aren’t great. While many people will bemoan the Baptism numbers, something else caught my eye. For those of who you are not Southern Baptists, the reporting works like this. Our church, Perryville Second Baptist, is a member of a […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: church membership, Cooperative Program, local church, Regenerate Church Membership, SBC, Southern Baptists

Why Spontaneous Baptism Sunday is Not a Good Idea

April 6, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

Here I am, a Baptist writing a post against baptism. That might be like Michael writing a post dogging the Big 10 or something. But actually, this post isn’t actually against baptism. Rather, it’s because I love baptism so much that I write today’s post. Now originally, this post was a response to J.D. Greear […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: baptism, gospel, local church, SBC, Southern Baptists, spontaneous baptism

Latitudinarianism and the Southern Baptist Convention

March 11, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

Really, part of me is just going for blog title of the year. The rest of me, however, does have a point to make. And I understand that latitudinarianism is probably not a word you casually mention much over coffee.  But I’d like to take a quick trip in church history, and then apply that […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: latitudinarianism, SBC, Sound Doctrine, Southern Baptists, Women Preaching

A Review of By What Standard

December 19, 2019 by Allen Nelson IV

In mid-December 2019, Founders Ministries released the CineDoc By What Standard? God’s World…God’s Rules (watch for free here). I considered doing a tweet thread with my thoughts, but think by the time I’m finished, it’ll be a bit much for Twitter. This will not be an in depth analysis, but more of some quick thoughts I have […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: By What Standard, Founders, SBC

The SBC’s 7,000

June 6, 2018 by Allen Nelson IV

In 1 Kings 19 the prophet Elijah thought he stood alone before the Lord as the last faithful man in all of Israel. In v.18, however, God reveals that there are more faithful people than just Elijah – a lot more: “I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: SBC, SBC18, Southern Baptist

I Am Resolved: One Southern Baptist’s Apathy toward Annual Resolutions

May 31, 2018 by Allen Nelson IV

My wife and I are excited to be attending the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX less than two weeks from now. This will be her first annual meeting and only my second. Despite the controversy controversies surrounding our denomination at present, Stephanie and I are hopeful for the SBC and praying for reformation and […]

Filed Under: Missions, Theology Tagged With: SBC, SBC18, Southern Baptists

An Open Letter to Affinity and Attractional Based Church Planters in the SBC

February 15, 2018 by Allen Nelson IV

Dear Church Planter, I’ve been sitting on this letter for a while.  I’ve thought through and prayed through the wisdom in writing this and gone back and forth several times on whether or not I should make this public.  I have some important things to say I think, but I hope you’ll take it in […]

Filed Under: Missions, Theology Tagged With: church planting, SBC

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