Video: Reflections on the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting
Dustin and I sat down and briefly reflected on our time at #sbc19. Though there always things to critique, we wanted to focus on a couple of positive takeaways.
Appropriate Speech-Acts: Thinking Carefully about Who Says What When the Church is Gathered (Part 2)
In this post I’m building on Part 1. I want to focus on this: when the church gathers for corporate worship, and both men and women are given opportunities to speak, what are appropriate acts of speech for men and women? More specifically, if we say it is appropriate for a woman to prophesy when the…
Appropriate Speech-Acts: Thinking Carefully about Who Says What When the Church is Gathered (Part 1)
*This article has two parts: see Part 2. A generation ago, debates among egalitarians and complementarians were significant. Eventually, the camps settled into their own (two organizations emerged that generally represent the two sides: Council of Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and Christians for Biblical Equality). Today, however, within the settled camp of complementarianism, there are…
What Kind of a Convention is the Southern Baptist Convention? Thoughts on My First Annual Meeting
I have been a part of the Southern Baptist Convention for all of my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever known what it means to be Southern Baptist until this past week as I attended my first Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. Seeing its representatives, all 10,000 of them, together in one place afforded…
REPOST: In light of the continued in-fighting, Another Call to Fight within Our Own Frontiers
*Well, the Southern Baptist Convention has arrived. It is 5:47am as I sit here in Dallas typing, drinking a cup of coffee, working on this post, and trying to knock out some reading before the day begins. As I do, and after spending Sunday evening and all day Monday here in Dallas, I do not…
Should All of Our (Southern Baptist Convention) Family Fights Go Public? Probably Not.
This past week Beth Moore tweeted the following: “Oh man, there’s bouta be a fight. I love this.”—Beth Moore. Someone jokingly responded and asked if she was watching the NBA Finals or taking a shot at the Southern Baptist Convention. I’m pretty sure Mrs. Moore was talking about the NBA game on television at that…
Articles by Jonathan Merrit and Ed Stetzer on Paige Patterson; The NFL and fining players who kneel; John Piper on unity
Here are some articles that we believe are worth a look. “Paige Patterson has resigned. Imagine if he were Tim Cook.” Jonathan Merrit compares the resignation of Patterson to the CEO of Apple. Ed Stetzer comments on the Patterson situation. “On the Removal of Paige Patterson and Next Steps for the SBC.” Should players kneel…
Theology Along the Way 