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southern baptist news opinion southern baptist news opinion skip to main content skip to primary sidebar sbc voices home about team what is local church autonomy august 17 2026 by mark terry 19 comments let me begin with a personal thank you and a personal note i owe dave miller a big thank you for posting my essays most of the voices writers post their own but i m technologically impaired so dave does it for me thanks dave i mentioned that my dear wife was recovering from a broken shoulder suffered in a fall at our home i m glad to report that her bones have healed and she s doing well she s still receiving physical therapy to regain strength and range of motion in my recent post on baptist distinctives i listed local church autonomy i thought it would be helpful to expand read more about what is local church autonomy the doctrine of adoption august 11 2026 by mark terry 5 comments this fall i ll teach a class on bible doctrines at our church in fort worth so i ve been studying doctrine and preparing powerpoint slides i m 76 years old and i ve only heard one sermon on the doctrine of adoption and i preached that now don t misunderstand i m not saying no one else has preached on adoption i m just saying in my experience i ve not heard a sermon on adoption that s a shame i believe adoption is a precious doctrine that bears preaching and teaching and learning the doctrine means a lot to me because our two children are adopted so here s my sermon on adoption read more about the doctrine of adoption let s review and recommit to baptist distinctives august 3 2026 by mark terry 38 comments back in the olden days when i was young one often saw articles and books on baptist distinctives by baptist distinctives i mean doctrines and convictions that characterize southern baptists i don t see such writing much anymore i m not sure why but i suspect that the cultural trend of decreasing brand loyalty has affected us when i was a boy in arkansas families were ford families or chevrolet families some clans were baptist and some were methodist folks were loyal to brands denominations and political parties those days are long gone still i m loyal to the southern baptist read more about let s review and recommit to baptist distinctives let s rededicate ourselves to church evangelism july 8 2026 by mark terry 33 comments let me begin with a personal note you probably noticed that while i was posting frequently for a time in recent weeks i have not the reason is that my dear wife fell and broke her shoulder so the time i previously devoted to writing i have been giving to driving her to medical appointments and providing unskilled nursing care poor woman i m happy to report that miss barbara as she is known in all the starbucks nearby is on the mend i know this because she has begun asking me to take her to starbucks southern baptists talk a better game of evangelism than we play the last read more about let s rededicate ourselves to church evangelism what no one tells you in church planting part 3 june 24 2026 by joe radosevich i led a breakout session on prayer at a church planting event a few years ago each of us gave a short explanation of our topic after i shared why someone would want to come to a session on prayer the church planter after me said i will show how you can grow your church without praying more or preaching better i will show you a system that i used to grow my church two people came to my session after that i overheard one church planter tell an intern from his church i don t need to learn to pray i need to learn that system that same planter came to a meeting a couple of years later read more about what no one tells you in church planting part 3 2026 sbc annual meeting report june 18 2026 by adam the following is adapted from my written report to my church concerning the 2026 sbc annual meeting one of the things i love most about the church i pastor is our generous and sacrificial giving for the sake of the gospel our primary channel for that giving is the southern baptist convention sbc as i teach in our new members class the sbc is not a top down denomination instead each sbc church is fully autonomous and we have voluntarily chosen to cooperate together for the sake of missions and theological education each year our little church gives a significant amount of money read more about 2026 sbc annual meeting report willy rice the future of the cooperative program is in question june 17 2026 by william willy rice is our new sbc president and is a likable fellow that goes a long way in my book although i don t know if i would have voted for him or not he has been running for the office and function of sbc president for quite a while and has said a lot of things i don t think anyone argues about how he has been designated as a reformer in the secular press and inside the sbc will willy reform the cooperative program highly doubtful his quote above is from ben cole s podcast where willy is asked nicely but pointedly about his church giving record credit due bc for pursuing read more about willy rice the future of the cooperative program is in question the mohler amendment june 11 2026 by william work with me here al mohler s guy one colin smothers not only speaks stridently in favor of the motion but makes a smarmy cheap shot parliamentary move to disallow any opposition to speak that was a low class no matter that the assembled messengers snarling with the smell of the red meat of victory agreed a true leader and the three piece suit guy is not one would have finessed the matter and equalized the discussion there was a time when blurting out call the question was not considered a proper motion find a pattern here we amended the bfm with no discussion we create read more about the mohler amendment when old jokes come to life june 10 2026 by dave miller my dad used to tell a story about a pastor who went to visit an older woman who had been visiting his church he encouraged her to join she said pastor i m not physically able to be a baptist after being in the convention hall the last 4 days i am beginning to wonder am i physically able to be a baptist messenger read more about when old jokes come to life mohler amendment jumps first hurdle june 10 2026 by dave miller i was writing down the exact numbers when i got an emergency message from my wife she won the foundation money estimate and demanded i come out that s about all i won this week the amendment passed by approximately 75 to 25 as many of us expected it has to pass again next year read more about mohler amendment jumps first hurdle page 1 page 2 page 3 interim pages omitted page 600 go to next page primary sidebar facebook rss twitter books by voices authors most viewed last 48 hours what is local church autonomy by mark terry divorce remarriage and ministry what is a husband of one wife by dave miller why are southern baptist churches dying by mark terry divorce remarriage and ministry what does the bible say by dave miller the importance of theological triage by ed goodman by ed goodman categories categories select category announcement 18 baptist sbc history 131 baptist faith message 32 blog madness 15 book reviews 32 church 3 cooperative program 111 devotional posts 214 discipleship 2 encouragement 2 erlc 86 ethnic diversity understanding 122 evangelism 50 gender sexuality 132 humor 28 imb 196 local church ministry 233 media resources 126 ministry 3 missions 153 namb 56 networking 57 orphan care adoption 10 pastor his family 45 pastoring 36 politics 71 prayer 7 preaching 15 purpose 1 sbc annual meeting 258 sbc institutions entities 252 sbc issues 5 169 sbc pastors conference 90 sbc voices news 53 seminaries 112 social issues 212 state conventions 10 survivors abuse response 49 theology 122 search this website about sbc voices team subscribe home about team