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Overcoming the Big Disconnect

July 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Southern Baptist Convention

Many Southern Baptists have spent the better part of two years discussing the Great Commission Resurgence through blogs, podcasts, newspaper articles, and live listening sessions. A number were quite passionate in their viewpoints. More than 11,000 of our 16 million members even made their way down to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando in [...]

KBC Executive Shares Thoughts About SBC Orlando

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptist Convention Executive Director Bill Mackey recently shared his thoughts on last week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention on his blog, Partners in the Mission, and in the Western Recorder newspaper. Here’s a reprint of that piece: Report from Orlando I want to share some words of encouragement from Orlando, especially for [...]

Leaders Discuss Great Commission Priorities

June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

Just ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando last week, Bill Mackey, the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s executive director, participated in a panel discussion on Great Commission priorities with Jerry Rankin, the outgoing president of the International Mission Board, and Richard Harris, the interim president of the North American Mission Board. Click on the [...]

Pray for the Southern Baptist Convention This Week

June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention set for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Crossover Orlando activities were held this past weekend with the Pastors’ Conference slated for today (Monday). Be in special prayer for the presentation of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report at 2:45 p.m. [...]

The GCR Report and Mickey Mouse

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Mike James serves as both the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s church development strategist for the south central region of Kentucky as well as the KBC’s point person on discipleship for the entire state. He recently wrote a great post on his 28Nineteen blog about what our attitude should be as we go to Orlando for the [...]

The Challenges of Great Commission Resurgence

June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, released a column today in the Western Recorder newspaper as well as on his own blog, Partners in the Mission, regarding the upcoming report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force to be received by messengers to Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, June 15-16. Here’s [...]

Mackey Comments on Great Commission Studies

May 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has recently written on the work of both the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as well as the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s own Great Commission Task Force. Here’s a re-post of his comments made in his column in the Western Recorder newspaper as [...]

The ‘Risk’ of the Great Commission Resurgence

May 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, International missions

Although I don’t play very often, I enjoy the board game, Risk. The object is for players to win the world. They start at rough parity in terms of the geography over which they have influence and in the course of the game either grow stronger or decline until they are eliminated. Risk is primarily [...]

Kentucky Reaffirms CP in Wake of GCR Report

May 4th, 2010 · 12 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

In the wake of Monday’s release of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force report, the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board on Tuesday approved a strong resolution supporting the Cooperative Program as the “essential avenue of support for missions and ministries” for Kentucky Baptists. Passage of the resolution came near the end of the Mission [...]

Kentucky Exec Shares His ‘Great Commission Hope’

April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force met earlier this week and has announced that it came to a unanimous consensus on the content of its final report to SBC messengers to be presented in Orlando in June. Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the task force, said the report will be released at 9:30 [...]

Three Wishes for a GCR Report Revision

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

I had the privilege recently of hearing Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, speak via Internet connection to the annual workshop of the Baptist Communicators Association in Chicago. I really appreciated him sharing his heart for reaching the lost and for helping Southern Baptists take a careful [...]

Beyond Find it Here: ‘What should we do now?’

April 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

It has been an exciting and busy few weeks in Kentucky as nearly 1,700 Kentucky Baptist churches have been involved in the Find it Here door-to-door evangelism campaign. We’re estimating that approximately 42,000 volunteers participated in distributing more than 1.4 million Gospel presentations to homes all across our state in the weeks leading up to [...]

Let’s Take the Snarkiness Out of GCR Discussion

April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence

I’m not exactly sure why this is happening but there are definitely places in the online conversation about the Great Commission Resurgence where I am seeing an element of competitiveness that at times is far too negative. I also think that it’s unhelpful and unnecessary during this important time of decision for Southern Baptists. Webster [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Bookcase Becomes a Pharmacy

February 1st, 2010 · 11 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the first of what we hope will be several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince today (Monday) and will be ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred [...]

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 [...]

Disaster Assessment Team at Work in Haiti

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists’ disaster assessment team is in Haiti after a grueling trip over the mountain range that separates the island nation from the Dominican Republic to its east. The five-member team, which includes Disaster Relief Associate Coy Webb from the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is now at work setting up the logistical structures that will be [...]

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 [...]

SBC President Calls for Day of Prayer on Jan. 31

December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt is calling all Southern Baptists to a special day of prayer on Jan. 31 to help us all focus on seeking God’s will as major decisions impacting the denomination are made in 2010. The president specifically cited the meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, the God’s Plan [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cooperative Program Definition is Important

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

There has been some discussion in recent months about the possibility of changing or adjusting the definition of what constitutes a Cooperative Program gift. The official definitions were only nailed down precisely by the Southern Baptist Convention at the annual meeting in June 2007 and by the Kentucky Baptist Convention at its annual meeting in [...]

It’s Not Always Glamorous But CP Sure is Vital

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Designated gifts are wonderful things. Just ask any pastor who has experienced the joy of having someone in his congregation share that they want to make a special donation to buy the new piano needed in the sanctuary, make the lead gift to get the church’s capital campaign off the ground or make up the [...]

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. The [...]

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 [...]

Crossover Showed Southern Baptists at Their Best

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

While most of the focus of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Louisville this past June was on the formation of the Great Commission Task Force, I have to say that for me the best part was what took place before messengers ever formally assembled for business. I had the opportunity to be a part [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

GC Task Force Proposed for Kentucky

August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention may get its own Great Commission Task Force if the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and messengers to this November’s annual meeting approve a proposal from the Mission Board’s Administrative Committee. Here’s the news as released by the Kentucky Baptist Convention: LOUISVILLE – The Administrative Committee of the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board [...]

New KBC Missions Budget Brochures Available

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the previous posts titled, “Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story,” “Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story,” and “Kentucky CP Giving…the Rest of the Story,” I shared how Cooperative Program dollars are divided in Kentucky and also explored what the total church giving picture looks like in terms of the division between [...]

First Great Commission Task Force Meeting Today

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer today for the opening meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force which meets today and tomorrow at the Renaissance Hotel in Atlanta. The committee is being chaired by Dr. Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Springdale & The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Arkansas. Click here to see a [...]

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…The Rest of the Story

July 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention

As we think about how Southern Baptists financially support various missions and ministry endeavors on a state, national and international basis, our thoughts immediately go to the Cooperative Program. And rightly so. The Cooperative Program is the single biggest funding source in Baptist life, with many Baptist entities depending on it for at least a portion of [...]

Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the last post about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations, I talked about the process the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and annual meeting messengers use in dividing the Cooperative Program pie three ways to fund missions endeavors within the state and around the world. In this post, I’ll give you the details of the budget goals [...]

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 [...]

Just a little Kentucky Baptist history

July 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

One of the things I want to move to pretty quickly with this blog is the Cooperative Program funding formula for Kentucky since the amount of money used for various kinds of missions and ministries throughout the Southern Baptist Convention will be one of the major discussion points of the Great Commission Task Force. Before [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]