Although the inaugural Student Evangelism Conference featured high-energy worship music, engaging speakers and captivating entertainers, none of those things represented the central purpose of the event, said Ryan Keaton, strengthening evangelistic disciples team leader for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
The greatest danger facing today’s church is not persecution, political pressure or cultural hostility. It is something far more subtle — and far more familiar.
The small building that sits across the parking lot from the Big Emory Baptist Association (BEBA) office was once filled with broken equipment.
Mission fields are everywhere, and your community has an important one.
The death of Paul Lee’s mother changed everything. That was it. That was the thing that drove Lee over an emotional and spiritual cliff. The
Steve Gaines, longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died March 20, after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.
“There was just this cry — we don’t feel like we know how to pray and be effective.”
When Leo Lytle pulls off the side of the road, he does not knock on doors, deliver a sermon or brandish a Bible. He simply waits.
“It is a real issue facing our churches”: As congregations increasingly manage finances and communications online, cybercriminals are taking notice.
Despite the snow and ice created by Winter Storm Fern, more than 300 attendees enjoyed a time of warm fellowship at the annual Bivocational Ministers and Wives Retreat in Pigeon Forge on Jan. 29-31.
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