George Bullard Archives - The Baptist Paper

First person: Annual Church Profile must serve congregations

December 1, 2025

I saw the following message posted by an association in an attempt to convince congregations to complete the Annual Church Profile.

First person: Ways to tell missional stories are greater than ever

November 28, 2025

Let’s talk about telling missional stories in the innovative ways available today, which can make storytelling come alive within the fellowship of associations.

First person: Discover the great stories within congregations

November 19, 2025

How can you uncover the stories of missional engagement in congregations? Without sounding flippant, the answer is to gently and consistently ask for them. You might be surprised by what you discover.

Storytelling: Should we bring back the annual associational letter?

November 7, 2025

Should we bring back the annual associational letter? Probably not, even though Baptists are not hearing many of the great stories of congregations in association with one another.

Whatever happened to associational letters?

October 25, 2025

Writing and presenting the Associational Letter for the annual meeting was a fellowship-building tradition during the first 200 years of Baptist associations in America.

Teaching churches to count what matters most

October 13, 2025

But aren’t there more important things to count that look at the vitality and vibrancy of a congregation?

Who sinned during the lost years of congregations?

October 5, 2025

I saw the signs of future sin way before we entered the lost years of the congregation my family helped launch when I was in high school. It was certainly not intentional sin. It was all unintentional. We caught it before it became an ongoing sinful practice.