Great Commission Resurgence

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Floyd Presents GCR Update to Executive Committee

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence task force presented an interim report from the group to the SBC’s Executive Committee in Nashville earlier tonight. The report itself was not available live but Floyd had previously recorded a version of the report for the web that has just been released.
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GCR Task Force to Provide Report Preview

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force

Please be in prayer for Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as he presents an update of the committee’s work to the SBC’s Executive Committee in Nashville on Monday night, Feb. 21. As soon as he finishes that live report, a previously taped video version will be released [...]

Baptist Campus Ministry Finding Unity in Diversity

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry

If Southern Baptists are to be a part of seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, one of the barriers we must ultimately overcome is that of racial prejudice. Much progress has been made but Sunday morning continues to be one of the most racially segregated times of the week in America. In this guest post, Curtis [...]

GCR Task Force Finalizing Recommendations

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

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 [...]

Baptists Do Know How CP Gifts Are Allocated

January 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one.
One of the statements I sometimes read within the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that Southern Baptists do not understand how their Cooperative Program funds are being used. This usually [...]

State, National Missions Also Important

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one.

I’ve never heard anyone say specifically that missions work in the United States is less important than international missions work but I’ve certainly come across some who, in their commendable [...]

State Conventions Stretched, Not Bloated

January 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post begins the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Several posts on this topic will follow in the days ahead although I’ll also be posting other items as needed.
As a communicator, I have to say right up front that part of me hates to even talk about the “bloated bureaucracies” myth because simply [...]

Appalachian Ministry Reaching Out With God’s Love

December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

The world has tremendous needs and Baptists are right to think long and hard about the best ways to ensure that every dollar given is used to spread the Gospel. This has led us to think primarily about international missions in the current focus on the Great Commission Resurgence. I think it’s equally important for us to [...]

GCR Task Force: Progress Has Been ‘Enormous’

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

We may be getting close to knowing what the actual proposals from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force are going to be. Following the group’s latest meeting in Atlanta this week, Chairman Ronnie Floyd said the group had made “enormous” progress and planned to bring a substantial report to the SBC Executive [...]

The World is Coming to Us Right Here in Kentucky

December 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions

Since so much of the energy of the Great Commission Resurgence is focused on international missions, I’ve tried in this Great Commission Kentucky blog to direct attention to some of the many ways Kentucky Baptists are participating in international missions through their state convention. One of the most significant of these is Baptist Campus Ministry.
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Great Commission in Forefront of KBC Meeting

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

The Great Commission will certainly be in the forefront of Tuesday’s annual meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention which will convene at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. More than 1,000 messengers and guests are expected for the meeting with the theme “Find it Here: Sharing Christ Across Kentucky.”
Here are some of the expected areas [...]

State Execs Offer Perspectives on GCR

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Baptist Press has just released a report on yesterday’s meeting between the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force and executives from 22 state conventions. All parties have been describing the meeting as being one that was cordial, respectful and frank. It sounds like the meeting was helpful in sharing various perspectives which should prove valuable to [...]

State Leaders to Meet with GCR Task Force

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Executive directors from state Baptist conventions will be getting an opportunity to share with the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force at the group’s next meeting, Oct. 27, in Dallas. Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd extended the invitation to the meeting through Dr. Bill Mackey, the executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, who is leading [...]

GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 4

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American missions, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again, Southern Baptist Convention

In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, I’ve focused on how similar the rhetoric surrounding the Great Commission Resurgence today is to the rhetoric regarding the newly formed Cooperative Program in the mid 1920s. In this final post in this series, I think you’ll see this to an even greater extent [...]

GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 3

September 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again

In looking at the current Great Commission Resurgence conversation and the original discussions surrounding the formation and implementation of the Cooperative Program, I’ve been amazed at the similarity of the rhetoric. As I said in Part 2, Baptists seemed to be pretty on board with the general concept of the Cooperative Program in 1925. [...]

GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 2

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again

As noted in Part 1, today’s Great Commission Resurgence discussion in Baptist life has really been going in various forms at least since 1913 when the Southern Baptist Convention put together an “Efficiency Committee” to make recommendations to Southern Baptists about better ways to operate and cooperate. That discussion eventually led to the formation of [...]

GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 1

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again, Southern Baptist Convention

Something tells me that Yogi Berra may not be following the Great Commission Resurgence discussion in Southern Baptist life these days but one of his oft quoted malapropisms is certainly an appropriate one for the current conversation – “It’s deja vu all over again.” Because of the strong involvement and encouragement of young leaders in this [...]

Preparing for a Great Commission Resurgence

August 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

I’m pleased to share a guest post from Joy Bolton, executive director of the Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union. Joy provides leadership to state WMU work and consulting in all areas of WMU work. She coordinates the state missions promotion, Kentucky WMU Annual Meeting and works closely with the Kentucky WMU Executive Board.
Joy shares here that [...]

Great Commission Task Force Members Profiled

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

We need to be praying for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force as it goes back to work today and tomorrow in Rogers, Ark. This meeting will be the committee’s first truly working session as the initial meetings in Atlanta earlier this month were largely organizational.
This meeting will have a public component today during which [...]

Idea of Merging Mission Boards Nothing New

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

One of the ideas floated as part of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that of merging the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board into a single missions organization. I don’t know if the idea will gain any traction but it’s interesting to note that according to a recent article in the Biblical [...]

Pray for the Great Commission Task Force

August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

A new Web site has been established to encourage Southern Baptists to be in prayer for the work of the Great Commssion Task Force. You can find the site at www.prayforgcr.com.
Here’s a video message from the task force chairman, Dr. Ronnie Floyd:

Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Chairman of GCR Task Force from Ronnie Floyd on Vimeo.

What is Your Definition of Missions?

August 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Much of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion these days seems to revolve — at least from a funding standpoint — around the topic of mission priorities. Southern Baptists are legitimately asking, “How can we make sure that the dollars we put in the offering plate do the utmost good in fulfilling the Great Commission?” Most [...]

Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving

One of the big questions being asked in relation to the Great Commission Resurgence is “How much money is staying within any given state convention versus how much is being sent on to Southern Baptist Convention causes?” We live in a very lost world and Southern Baptists are legitimately wanting to make sure their missions dollars [...]

Everyone’s Talking GCR These Days

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

I think the single most asked question I’m getting these days is: “What is the Baptist Building’s take on the Great Commission Resurgence or Great Commission Task Force?” Or, the variation might be: “What does Dr. Mackey think about the GCR?” referencing Dr. Bill Mackey, the executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
It’s a question I don’t [...]

What is Great Commission Kentucky?

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

If you’re reading this post, you’re in on the ground floor of a brand new place to share and discuss the ways God is at work in the state of Kentucky. As you can probably tell by the name, it’s been born out of the latest big discussion in Southern Baptist Convention life — the [...]