Dr. Ronnie Floyd

Please be in prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as it completes a three-day meeting in San Antonio on Thursday. The task force is finishing up work on a report it plans to make to the SBC’s Executive Committee Feb. 22-23 in Nashville. Chairman Ronnie Floyd has referred to this last intense burst of committee work as the “crucible of decision-making,” which I take means that the group is certainly down to finalizing language and proposals.

The report to the SBC Executive Committee is an important one because it is expected to be a preview of the recommendations the task force will be making to Southern Baptists at the convention in Orlando this June. It will be the first real glimpse at what the task force’s hopes and dreams for the SBC and the first opportunity for most Southern Baptists to hear specifics that will take the discussion beyond general statements of support for fulfilling the Great Commission.

The task force has certainly had a difficult task in that it has had only a few short months and a relatively few meetings to research, discuss and distill all they learned into the recommendations they will be making. Please pray that in this meeting’s final session Thursday, the members will feel God’s presence and leading in a powerful way!