http://sbcoutpost.com Southern Baptist News & Commentary Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:25:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Board of Trustees of the International Mission Board meet this week. It is the first meeting after the election of Johnny Hunt as President of the SBC and the first meeting after the public release of the broadly supported IMB Change statement requesting the rescinding of the controversial IMB ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/23/imb-trustees-meeting/ (Since my post has taken so long to finish, it has become quite lengthy. I will, therefore, publish it in two parts. The first, today. The second, tomorrow.) General Observations The 2008 annual session of the Southern Baptist Convention proved to be the anticlimactic end to the very long ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/18/2008-sbc-wrap-up-pt-1/ While i finalize my convention reflections and a post entitled, "Exit Strategy," I thought it would be helpful for our readers to see an excerpt from Louis Moore's new book, Witness to the Truth. The following quote can be found on pages 173-174: While the party of the establishment tried to ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/12/in-the-meantime/ Some of us were unable to attend the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. We are grateful for those who Twittered (Ed Stetzer) and blogged (Tom Ascol and others). Technology allowed many of us to listen in from the outside (like Timmy Brister). Alan Cross may have watched the entire meeting ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/12/downshore-drifts-into-hopeful-territory/ For an explanation of this photo, please await the convention summary. http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/11/this-is-what-happens-when-you-eat-a-tasty-texas-flapjack-straight-from-pecan-manor/ Two years ago the convention met in Greensboro, NC, to observe the perfect storm wherein a relatively unknown pastor from a previously low profile church trounced two rival nominees to be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on the first ballot. I say it was a perfect storm ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/09/thoughts-on-the-presidency-of-frank-page/ I have often joked that the Southern Baptist Convention is a quasi-religious incarnation of the enduring children's tale by L. Frank Baum, known to most of us through MGM's classic "The Wizard of Oz."  Pastors and laymen from the hinterlands of Kansas make their way through a whirlwind of travel ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/09/were-off-to-see-the-wizard-attending-the-2008-sbc-annual-meeting/ The following schedule will guide SBCOutpost readers regarding the forthcoming posts written by one increasingly disinterested but always provocative contributor to this collaborative effort. Saturday, June 7, 2008 -- "We're Off To See the Wizard: Attending the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention." Sunday, June 8, 2008 -- "Thoughts on ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/06/weekend-preview-2/ I've gotten to know quite a few people over the past two-and-one-half years as we've discussed the IMB policy/guideline changes.  No one seems to express what I'm thinking better than my friend Alan Cross.  Recently Alan completed quite a bit of homework on our missions work and has written down ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/03/problems-within-the-imb-caused-by-restrictive-guidelines-missionaries-say-yes/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2008 Pastors, former missionaries join former IMB trustees in calling for removal of controversial, superfluous ‘guidelines’ ‘Time to Change’ group opposes policies on baptism, private prayer practices NORTH CAROLINA –– A group of 37 former Southern Baptist missionaries, former International Mission Board trustees and Southern Baptist pastors has issued ... http://sbcoutpost.com/2008/06/02/press-release-calling-for-guidelines-reversal/