Advancing its longstanding partnership with 9Marks ministries, Midwestern Seminary will launch a redesigned 9Marks at Midwestern Conference in April 2026.
“I’m trying to avoid haphazard or rushed decisions. I’m more interested in methodical, systematic, real progress than I am haphazard or rushed decision-making that really doesn’t pay a benefit we need in the long run.”
U.S. Protestant churches are almost evenly split between those that have grown within the past two years and those that are plateaued or declining, according to an Exponential study by Lifeway Research.
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for March 23, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for March 23, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
“Ministry is difficult, but it’s not complicated. It’s supposed to be simple. Share the gospel, make disciples, and build churches that send people to share the gospel, make disciples, and build churches,” Jeff Iorg said.
In one of several interviews with state Baptist publication editors, Jeff Iorg of the SBC Executive Committee chats with Jennifer Davis Rash about a few of the current situations happening in the business side of SBC life.
“I would say, it’s not so much on the back burner as it is we want to teach churches how to access databases that already exist … ” said Jeff Iorg, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
Jeff Iorg: My vision is that Southern Baptists would come together and spend 95% of their time talking about how to get the gospel to people in the world who’ve never even heard the name of Jesus.
The average Southern Baptist church calls the South home, but the only region of the country where those congregations are growing is the Northeast.
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