J.D. and I met almost ten years ago – when he was about 26. If he thinks he might not be so young at 36, he sure was then! I like to think I am still young thought ten years his senior. Don’t rush it J.D.! I still recall his hospitality to me traveling by [...]
Tag Archive: GCR
“If We Were the GCR Task Force …” – Marty Gets It Rolling
Missional Marty officially breaks out of semi-retirement to offer some initial thoughts on what is hoped to be a constructive conversation about the latest (G)CR turn in the SBC. In one of the many vintage Duren lines from the post is this point that gets at the heart of the need for the Great Commandment [...]
Cries(es) of Leadership
Seth Godin considers the new leaders to be heretics. (Tribes) In religious settings we eschew the label heretic. Although, the word becomes an incendiary device hurled toward anyone who does not espouse “my” orthodoxy, which of course is “the” orthodoxy.
Ed Stetzer is on record noting another malady – drawing lines over praxis. Southern Baptists have [...]
More of the Same – The Glimmer is Coming off the GCR
Seems like Southern Baptist state newsletters, er uh, newspapers like to be the center of attention. Last week the Baptist Messenger ran a note a graphic used in a previous issue of a “Proclamation on Morality” to be a “misrepresentation.” Talk about soft retraction.
If the shimmer comes off the Baptist Messenger with such an inaction, [...]
Guest Post at SBCImpact
I have written maybe three posts in the past 12 months on the SBC. All of them since the recent SBC Annual Meeting in Louisville. Some recent events led me to consider writing the third. I queried SBCImpact about putting up the post there. They accepted the post and put it up this morning. I [...]
Will History Repeat Itself? Stetzer challenges SBC Not To
I do not often write about the SBC but some things still churn in the blogs I read over the recent Annual Meeting. In those events, I may ruminate for those interested in such a topic. Ed pointed to this article he wrote in 2003. I have brought it up to date some to consider [...]
What If SBC Outpost Reflected on the GCR and the SBC?
Leading up to this year’s SBC Annual meeting some of we alums from the old SBC Outpost shared some independent conversations. (Yes, there were three iterations of SBC Outpost. I will decline comment on any single iteration and not spar with a soul over “which one was better.”)
“What are your thoughts about the GCR?,” tended [...]
iMonk “E.F. Hutton” Weighs In on Day 1 of SBC
Quoted during the SBC Pastor’s Conference. Interviewed ad nasuem after his post on the Coming Evangelical Collapse. Michael Spencer weighs in with his usual salient points. I did not have time to throw together my thoughts. Maybe tomorrow. It is late. So, if you would like to listen to someone who should be listened to, [...]
Talk is Cheap – SBC and Structures
Today marks the beginning of the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. One of the issues up for discussion/debate will be Johnny Hunt’s proposed Great Commission Resurgence. I suspect we will approve the matter and gain another code word for, “one of the good guys.” I think David Phillips told me Mac Brunson suggested [...]
What We Have Known – in Stats …
Paul points to some research we have known either intuitively or by experience (our own or others who are friends). Supports my continued contention that rather than continue to narrow our tribes by the knife of knowledge we should embrace in love. Our own denomination (SBC) continues to look at conformity to the Great Commission [...]
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