“In the last three years, the shift has been staggering: 435,000 lost in 2020; 410,000 in 2021; and then 484,000 in 2022. In total, the [Southern Baptist Convention] has lost more than 1.3 million people in just three years.”
Churches and individuals are encouraged to mark their calendars to pray on Oct. 22, when Southern Baptists are scheduled to observe a Day of Prayer for Associational Missions.
For the last two decades, new church planters launching in Arizona have largely come from out of state.
“There are fewer Christians in Utah than any country in the western hemisphere,” according to Plant4thegospel.com. “The next closest would be Cuba at 6%.”
Nearly a month after his defamation case against the North American Mission Board was dismissed, Will McRaney announced Monday (Sept. 11) that he is appealing the ruling with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
I remember an 8-year boy standing next to me crying and saying repeatedly, “Why did they have to kill my daddy?”
“Start to Finish” provided pastor Tony Evans the chance to reflect on and tell his own story along with dozens of the people who know him best.
The Fred Luter Jr. Student Center at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is often the site of student enlistment events. But recently, a different kind
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