We, the undersigned, are Southern Baptist pastors and leaders who love our family of churches and who are grateful for the hard-won complementarian commitments expressed in the Baptist Faith & Message.
“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.”
“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.
Kentucky Today, news service of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is launching a new podcast designed to give readers more insight into the stories that are published.
While many people today are hesitant to explore AI, its adoption has skyrocketed. According to Pew Research, TechCrunch and firms like Gartner, IDC and Statista, the statistics are startling.
“This is a beautiful community,” says David Gaskins. “Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing — Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname because almost nobody is happy here.”
It is not a matter of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief becoming the arm of the government — it’s the government recognizing and supporting Christians who are eager to stretch out their arms to their neighbors in need.
