The primary reason I’m a professor is because I want to help equip a generation of collegians and seminarians to be pastor-theologians, particularly in a Southern Baptist context. In fact, my SEBTS students have sometimes accused me of using my church history and Baptist history classes as a platform for teaching pastoral ministry and theology. Guilty as charged. But don’t let them fool you; most of our students, including those who don’t feel a calling to … [Read More]
Missiological Roundtable Announces Six New Audio Interviews
Recently, Between the Times linked to The Center for Great Commission Studies’ Missiological Roundtable project, and now BtT would like to make you aware that six new audio sessions are now available. In these new interviews, our own faculty (Danny Akin, Bruce Ashford, Mike Dodson, Scott Hildreth, Greg Mathias, George Robinson) speak to various issues in the theology and practice of mission. To access the interviews, click here.
The Roundtable is a series of interviews that … [Read More]
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How Many Chinese Christians Are There?
Estimates of the number of Christians in China vary from 16 million to 200 million. Because of the Chinese government’s often hostile approach to religion, getting a credible count has been nearly impossible. Now, in a recent First Things article (First Things, May 2011, pp. 14-16), three Baylor sociologists claim they have arrived at a reasonably accurate count, and they place the number at 70 million.
When the Communists came to power in 1949, there were about one million … [Read More]
Muslim Conversions to Christ
In his recently published Muslim Conversions to Christ, Ant Greenham argues that, despite the difficulties of reaching the Islamic world with the gospel, individual Muslims do put their faith in Christ. Greenham, Assistant Professor of Missions and Islamic Studies at Southeastern, identified from the literature a range of conversion factors and consequently conducted a qualitative study of eleven male and eleven female Palestinians in January 2003 to identify their … [Read More]
Engaging Exposition (19): The Work of Exposition: Structuring the Message
Engaging exposition requires the preacher of God’s Word to develop a comprehensive and structured method for moving from his study notes and research to the completed sermon. John Stott says, “the golden rule for sermon outlines is that each text must be allowed to supply its own structure.”* An effective teacher of the Word of God recognizes the wisdom of honoring the substance and structure of the text. What he says should be faithful … [Read More]
