A federal judge has dismissed all but one claim in former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit against the SBC, its Executive Committee, and Guidepost Solutions.
The EC and Southern Baptists desperately needed stability. The EC’s credibility was in shambles after six years of making news for all the wrong reasons.
Jeff Iorg, in his first year as EC president, said the spirit of Southern Baptists has been his greatest encouragement.
“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.”
“Real change means real change. Sometimes a patch won’t do,” Iorg said. He added that major change requires whatever new structures, policies, procedures and budgets are needed to successfully implement that change.
“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.
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