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What Can Rural Church Pastors do in the SBC?

by Allen Nelson IV | November 23, 2021 | General | 0 Comments

Recently, during a public conversation with SBC 1st VP, Dr. Lee Brand, I had the opportunity to share what I think pastors in rural churches can do in the current tumult of the Southern Baptist Convention. I thought I would share these thoughts in writing as an...

Making Baptist Great Again: The Path to a Conservative Resurgence in the SBC

by Allen Nelson IV | June 14, 2021 | General, Theology | 3 Comments

This blog post is reworked from a sermon preached on June 13, 2021, at Perryville Second Baptist Church. You can listen to that message here. An Exposition Ephesians 2:19b-20 says, “you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built...

Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Towards an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity (book review)

by Chuck Ivey | April 21, 2021 | Theology | 0 Comments

Baptists and the Christian Tradition offers ample material contributing to the conversation of what it means to be an evangelical, committed to the church catholic.

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

Every so often, the advertisements on my social media feeds become heavily saturated with...

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

The 2019 annual church profile for the Southern Baptist Convention came out recently and the...

Why Spontaneous Baptism Sunday is Not a Good Idea

Here I am, a Baptist writing a post against baptism. That might be like Michael writing a post...

Latitudinarianism and the Southern Baptist Convention

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,...

A Review of By What Standard

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...

The SBC’s 7,000

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...

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

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...

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

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...