Some 8,000 pastors and associate pastors within the Southern Baptist Convention and National Baptist Convention report being bivocational. It’s tough work, they say, but worth it. NAMB says bivocational pastors are critical to growing a church planting movement. “We believe the only way for us to have a true church […]
Daily Archives: July 2, 2012
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The issue of gay marriage has officially been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a move that could lead to a landmark ruling.
Religious freedom advocates need to seek to persuade each United States presidential candidate to “grow a backbone” and speak out for the rights of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East, a Southern Baptist church-state specialist said at a recent Washington conference.
First Baptist Church in Bonifay, Fla., is energized to help complete the Great Commission task by giving to missions through the Cooperative Program and by carrying out relevant ministries in their community.
Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $5,959,045.57, or 4.27 percent, above the year-to-date budgeted goal, and are .32 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee […]
At least 18 people died while 66 were wounded in Kenya’s northeastern town of Garissa Sunday (July 1) when assailants burst into the Africa Inland Church (AIC) and Catholic Church, shooting at worshipers with firearms and detonating grenades.
When discussing temptation and people who have fallen into public sin, columnist Dave Miller cautions Christians from ever saying, “That is never going to happen to me.”