Please stop whatever you are doing and pray right now for First Baptist Woodstock pastor and current SBC President Johnny Hunt. Many of you know that Bro. Johnny was diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of months ago. His surgery is this morning at 11:30. Please also remember to continue to pray for other Southern Baptist pastors and leaders with cancer, including O. S. Hawkins, Jack Graham, and Matt Chandler.
The Prayer Call of 1784
We Baptists love to talk about the role that the English Particular Baptists of the 18th century, especially Andrew Fuller and William Carey, played in launching the modern missions movement in the English-speaking world. That movement is often said to begin in 1792 with the formation of the Particular Baptist Missionary Society, which sent Carey and John Thomas to India the following year. But that’s not the full story. Before there was a “Great Commission … [Read More]
The Power of Prayer
In 1794 Baptists Isaac Backus and Stephen Gano, along with twenty-three other New England ministers, distributed a circular letter which called believers to pray for a general awakening:
“To the ministers and churches of every Christian denomination in the United States, to humble in their endeavors to carry into execution the humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God’s people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion and the advancement of Christ’s … [Read More]
Praying for a Great Commission Resurgence
Shortly after the Louisville Convention GCR Task Force chairman Ronnie Floyd asked for at least 5000 Southern Baptists to partner with the Task Force through prayer. Today a new website has been launched to help all of us know better how to pray for the Task Force. PRAY4GCR includes a list of all the Task Force members, explanations of the history and main principles of the GCR movement, and prayer updates. It also has a section where you can sign … [Read More]
On The GCR Declaration, Part 5
This is the fifth article in a series on the GCR Declaration in anticipation of next week’s SBC Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. As you read, please remember that while Between the Times is a group blog that includes a number of Southeastern Seminary professors, these articles (and every article I write) represent my own personal opinions. I speak only for myself, so please avoid imputing my views to any of my fellow contributors unless … [Read More]
Contours of a Great Commission Resurgence, Part 21: The Role of Prayer
Contours of a Great Commission Resurgence is a series of articles by faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary that seeks to offer some definitions of what constitutes a GCR, why we believe the SBC is in need of such a movement, and what such a movement might look like in SBC life. The series addresses biblical, theological, historical and practical issues related to a GCR with the hope that God will use our finite and … [Read More]
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