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Can anyone speak for Southern Baptists without making them mad?
September 3, 2025
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GCR Task Force files (part 5): Saving NAMB
EDITOR’S NOTE — The Baptist Paper staff members continue their review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. (See the first four articles here.) Staff members are currently working through audio files from the remaining meetings and will release highlights from those meetings in the coming weeks. The Great Commission Resurgence Task Force gathered Nov. 30–Dec. 1, 2009, in Atlanta for its fourth meeting, which began on
August 29, 2025
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GCR Task Force files (part 4): Rise of Great Commission Giving
The Baptist Paper staff members continue their review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. (See the first three articles here.) This report is part 2 of the third meeting of the task force. Staff members are currently working through audio files from the fourth meeting and will release highlights from that meeting in the coming weeks. For more stories at your doorstep, subscribe to The Baptist Paper.
August 15, 2025
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GCR Task Force files (part 3): Dallas-Fort Worth meeting sparks ‘polarized’ discussion
Staff members of The Baptist Paper, a sister publication to The Alabama Baptist and part of TAB Media Group, continue their review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. (See first two articles here.) They’ve made it through the third meeting, held at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, which took place Oct. 27, 2009. This meeting has been broken up into two parts. Stay tuned for
August 8, 2025
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More highlights available from GCR Task Force audio files (part 2)
A team from The Baptist Paper, a sister publication to The Alabama Baptist and part of TAB Media Group, continues its review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.
August 1, 2025
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GCR Task Force files unsealed, available for review (part 1)
The audio files from the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s 10 months of work in 2009 and 2010 were sealed for 15 years, the agreed-upon time by the group. The collection is housed in the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives and consists of 57 compact discs and very few paper documents.
June 16, 2025