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Barber urges ‘vigilance against corruption,’ announces 2023 SBC Annual Meeting theme

  • September 19, 2022
  • Shawn Hendricks
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Barber urges ‘vigilance against corruption,’ announces 2023 SBC Annual Meeting theme

Bart Barber urged the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, during its Sept. 19 meeting in Nashville, to stay “vigilant against corruption,” while also passionately supporting those who are preaching truth in dark places around the globe. See more Executive Committee coverage here.

During his 20-minute message, the newly-elected SBC president also announced the theme for the Convention’s annual meeting next year in New Orleans: “Serving the Lord, Serving Others,” taken from 2 Cor. 4:5. He noted he believes the theme truly captures who Southern Baptists are.

“If any community has seen what Southern Baptists are like, serving other people in the name of Jesus, it’s been New Orleans,” said Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church Farmersville, Texas.

The people of New Orleans, he added, “are very familiar with the yellow caps and yellow jackets [Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers], where we have gone after hurricanes and flooding, where we have ministered to people who were out of their homes, and sometimes out of hope.”

“So it excites me to think about banners going up in New Orleans, for the population of New Orleans to see that Southern Baptists are coming with a heart of service.”

Vigilance and support

Preaching from 2 and 3 John, Barber shared a message that he taught to church leaders in Senegal during a recent short-term missions trip. In that message, Barber noted, he found a message for Southern Baptists in the “crack in the pages” between the two books.

“The letter of 2 John is an encouragement to the church to be vigilant against the corruption that comes when false teachers are able to make their way into the churches and lead people away from the faith,” Barber said. “Because many deceivers still go out into the world, heresy is all around us.”

He continued, “It is good and right that we be on guard against those who would work evil in the midst of the company of good. It is good and right that we be watching for sexual predators who would come into our flocks and destroy the hearts and the bodies and the lives of precious children of God, who are looking not to be used but to be led to Jesus Christ. It’s good and right for us to be on guard against that.”

More than ‘a nice option’

He also noted that 3 John must be taken into account, too.

“There’s not just the danger of participating in something bad,” he noted. “You also have to recognize that there is a divine obligation to support the work of those who are proclaiming the work of the gospel in truth and fidelity in the Scriptures.

“We do not give at First Baptist Farmersville through the Cooperative Program just because we think it’s a nice option,” Barber said.

“We give through the Cooperative Program because we believe God wills it,” he added. “Because we believe that the people who have gone to far flung and dangerous places around the world to share the gospel have gone out from our church and churches like ours.

“If we will not be partners with them and the good work of the Holy Spirit that they have engaged in, who will?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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