“We want to help you keep the Great Commission front and center,” Sandy Wisdom-Martin told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
Resolutions “On the Centennial Anniversary of the Cooperative Program” and “On Honoring the Centennial Anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message (1925) and Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)” were among eight resolutions approved by messengers during sessions June 10-11 in Dallas.
Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said his entity had two defunding questions on its plate June 11 as he delivered ERLC’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.
“Southwestern Seminary is in a very different place than it was 33 months ago,” said David Dockery, president of Southwestern Seminary. “The board, faculty, staff and students are unanimous in their sense of joyful hopefulness.”
“Throughout this convention, we are erecting memorial stones of 100 years of cooperation demonstrated through the Cooperative Program,” said Jeff Iorg, president of the SBC Executive Committee.
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