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The Baptist Network forms as a new national connection
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (584+ words) Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard The Baptist Network, a new network designed to connect a diverse group of Baptist leaders across the nation, recently formed to encourage one another amid shifting social and political tensions across affiliations and organizations. The group…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are gospel-centered
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (679+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists I write to you from Toronto, Canada, where the Baptist World Alliance is celebrating its annual gathering. With the theme “One Gospel, Many People,” we are praying together, joining in worship, learning through breakout sessions, and…...
Voices: Some truth and unity for Texas Baptists
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1672+ words) The SBC has spoken. Now Texas Baptists must decide who we will be. Pentecost. It is 9 in the morning in Jerusalem, and the Spirit falls. Wind. Fire. Ordinary men and women spill into the street, speaking the wonders of God…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are servant-hearted
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (675+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists In his 1970 essay, leadership guru Robert K. Greenleaf wrote: “The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead....
Southern Baptists and religious liberty
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) Adam W. Jones & Jackson Carter / Ouachita Baptist University As questions surrounding religious liberty continue to generate conversation in the modern political sphere, Baptists have consistently and historically affirmed their belief in religious freedom for all. In his book Baptists and Religious…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are kingdom-collaborating
3+ week, 3+ day ago (854+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists This past Sunday, I had the privilege of preaching at the South Garland Baptist Church in Garland, a Texas Baptists church with a long-standing commitment to the Cooperative Program and cooperative missions. On Monday, we met…...
Three churches explain their leaving the SBC
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1291+ words) Faith Pratt / Baptist Standard As churches continue to reassess their relationship with the Southern Baptist Convention, pastors who recently led their congregations out of the denomination point to concerns involving debates over women in ministry, growing political polarization, and dissatisfaction…...
Editorial: Texas Baptists need to be part of BWA
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (996+ words) Eric Black / Editor I went for a walk Tuesday evening along tower-lined Yonge Street in North York, Toronto. It was a beautiful evening. The weather was perfect. The street was full of people from all over the world. Most were…...
Celebrating Churches: FBC Corpus Christi baptizes 15 in the Gulf
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (237+ words) Baptist Standard Celebrating Churches: FBC Corpus Christi baptizes 15 in the Gulf Staff / Baptist Standard First Baptist Church in Corpus Christi continues its annual summer tradition of taking its Sunday worship to the coast, hosting a community beach baptism, and fellowship…...
Celebrating Churches: Seven baptized at FBC Hondo
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (169+ words) Baptist Standard Celebrating Churches: Seven baptized at FBC Hondo Staff / Baptist Standard First Baptist Church in Hondo has seen renewed excitement around baptisms after adopting a three-week celebration that highlights each person’s testimony and baptism. The church has already seen…...