SBC This Week

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The SBC Executive Committee finalized a contract with Guidepost Solutions to begin work on an independent review of the EC. Also, there is some great news about giving around the SBC.

• EC approves Guidepost contract, agrees to waive privilege – https://bit.ly/3AoAKsn
• Independent review of Executive Committee underway – https://bit.ly/3llBPgd
• Cooperative Program giving tops $192 million, exceeds budget projections for the year – https://bit.ly/3BqPbNU
• LMCO total exceeds goal, reflects commitment to be a Great Commission people – https://bit.ly/3am1rUe
• NAMB trustees celebrate record Annie Offering, ministry growth in Pittsburgh – https://bit.ly/3AipXju
• Annie Offering tops $66 million for new record high – https://bit.ly/3llC5fb
• Todd Fisher elected executive director-treasurer for Oklahoma Baptists – https://bit.ly/3BnZUbW
• Dustin Benge named SBTS VP of communications – https://bit.ly/3Bsh9ZC

• Twin Funnels Stir Up Trucker Chapel Trailer
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/5137,07-Oct-1980.pdf

• Amy: The Expected One
• Jonathan: The Risen One

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The SBC Executive Committee met for five hours on Tuesday, but ultimately agreed on no concrete action, instead opting for another 7-day extension to negotiate a deal with the Sex Abuse Task Force. Also, there is reason to celebrate as CP giving topped $2 billion since its inception 96 years ago.

• EC extends task force negotiations, remains hopeful for resolution – https://bit.ly/3ip9G6g
• EC, Task Force explore Michigan Model as possible solution in third-party investigation – https://bit.ly/3mfI04L
• Southern Baptist pastors, leaders weigh in on EC-Task Force stalemate – https://bit.ly/3mfo0PY
• Cooperative Program crosses $20 billion in cumulative giving – https://bit.ly/3B0ISAs
• IMB trustees appoint 36 missionaries, celebrate best financial year in history – https://bit.ly/3F6VvMR
• Mississippi church provides cryptocurrency as new giving option – https://bit.ly/2Y9nAmd
• For the Church returns to MBTS campus with theme of ‘Until Every Church Healthy’ – https://bit.ly/3CYom3W
• FBC Montgomery attacked by arsonist; damage extensive but not ‘catastrophic,’ pastor says – https://bit.ly/3ipIa8G
• ERLC presents ultrasound machine to Northern Ireland center – https://bit.ly/3opwqXv
• SBTS mourns loss of beloved church music professor – https://bit.ly/3opLowT
• 2022 SBC Annual Meeting online hotel registration opens Oct. 1 – https://bit.ly/3ilgfXq

• SBC Board Sends $10,000 For Pakistan Relief
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/3258,29-Sep-1971.pdf

• Amy: Help, I’m Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope
• Jonathan: The Jesus Music

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The SBC Executive Committee met this week in Nashville and conducted business. Among the items approved as a $500,000 authorization for legal fees as it begins its independent review with GuidePost Solutions. Also, NAMB president Kevin Ezell announced that the all-time AAEO giving total has surpassed $2 billion.

• TRUSTEES: EC responds to task force, authorizes funding at September meeting – https://bit.ly/39yXdrL
• EC adopts motion to fund contract with Guidepost, delays waiving privilege – https://bit.ly/3u7sHid
• SBC EC allocates $500,000 for sex abuse legal fees, initiates conflict of interest review – https://bit.ly/3kE2iW6
• Litton urges Executive Committee to regain trust of Southern Baptists – https://bit.ly/3u8FEbr
• Task Force chair addresses Executive Committee, discusses client-attorney privilege – https://bit.ly/3kFwe4l
• Generous missions giving, biblical authority spotlight entity reports – https://bit.ly/3zxS65K
• Stacy Bramlett elected SBC Executive Committee vice chair – https://bit.ly/3kAe9Ey
• Pastor calls for week of fasting, prayer for EC crisis – https://bit.ly/2XNbY7B
• EC members grieved by recent meeting, optimistic about possible solution – https://bit.ly/3AG7JJF
• Annie Armstrong Offering surpasses cumulative $2 billion – https://bit.ly/3ADQ3i1
• ‘Fill the Tank’ brings 1,600 baptisms in North Carolina – https://bit.ly/3kz8T4a
• Suspected arson a reminder of Nashville church’s mission – https://bit.ly/2XKO7W8

• Southern Baptist Teletype Romances
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2085,23-Sep-1965.pdf
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1177,10-Aug-1961.pdf
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1646,11-Oct-1962.pdf

• Amy: Taylor Leonhardt: Hold Still
• Jonathan: LMCO resources

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The ERLC held its annual trustee meeting this past week and announced a candidate profile for its new president while naming Brent Leatherwood acting president. Also, David Spika stopped by to discuss an exciting new offering from GuideStone.

• ERLC trustees name Leatherwood acting president; greenlight sex abuse assessment – https://bit.ly/3tWLbly
• ERLC trustees approve profile for next president – https://bit.ly/3AkQwFA
• Indiana Baptists name Ryan Strother executive director – https://bit.ly/3AlRwcD
• Smith to step down as BCM/D executive director – https://bit.ly/3Am8GGT
• Georgia Baptist Mission Board announces layoffs amid continual CP decrease – https://bit.ly/3AjzBmI
• Deaths of Helen Parks, wife of former IMB president, and Troy Morrison, former Alabama state executive – https://bit.ly/3AmmOzR

• GuideStone Funds

• Porter Routh elected executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/358,11-Sep-1951.pdf
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/360,14-Sep-1951.pdf
  • https://www.sbc.net/resource-library/resolutions/resolution-on-appreciation-for-porter-wroe-routh/

• Amy: State of the Bible
• Jonathan: For The Church

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The International Mission Board updated their vaccination policy this week to more effectively take the Gospel to the nations. Also, there is an update from the task force charged with overseeing the independent, third-party review of the SBC Executive Committee.

• IMB updates vaccination policy to maximize access to unreached peoples – https://bit.ly/3nee2Ak
• Guidepost Solutions selected to conduct independent review, Executive Committee ‘welcomes’ announcement – https://bit.ly/3BYIgvd
• National Cooperative Program giving 8.33% above budget with one month left in fiscal year – https://bit.ly/3BY5jX5
• IMB announces Hispanic Missions Sunday, Sept. 26 – https://bit.ly/3hleBoe
• NOBTS-Leavell College campus reopens following Hurricane Ida – https://bit.ly/3lf9pmU
• COVID-19 causes church to change its name – https://bit.ly/3l5aDRy
• Road to Ida recovery continues for Louisiana, SBDR, Send Relief – https://bit.ly/3BYIuCz

• Southern Baptists Remember 9/11
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/9-11-southern-baptist-disaster-relief-left-legacy-at-ground-zero/
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/9-11-drives-two-manhattan-southern-baptists-closer-to-ministry-god/
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/first-person-have-we-forgotten/
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/9-11-reflections-from-3-sbc-leaders/
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/9-11-need-for-christian-based-soul-care-for-military-grew/

• Amy: Seek First the Kingdom – Bible Study Book: God’s Invitation to Life and Joy in the Book of Matthew
• Jonathan: Love Me Anyway: How God’s Perfect Love Fills Our Deepest Longing

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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and Send Relief were busy this week responding to damage caused by Hurricane Ida. Also, SBC President Ed Litton has made his first appointments.

• At least 80 Louisiana churches damaged; Hurricane Ida relief ramps up – https://bit.ly/3kLNQdw
• NOBTS avoids significant damage, awaits return of electricity – https://bit.ly/3kPmP9c
• Small communities bear brunt of Hurricane Ida; Southern Baptists ready to help – https://bit.ly/3kPO5Eu
• More than 20 deaths after Ida remnants slam Northeast – https://bit.ly/3DIIubC
• Ida’s destruction latest on infamous date for Louisiana hurricanes – https://bit.ly/2WVBPdv
• Litton announces chair, vice chair for Committee on Committees – https://bit.ly/2WVBM1j

• Texas heartbeat ban takes effect, breaks barrier https://bit.ly/3zF5Jkq
• FIRST-PERSON: What if abortion finally became illegal? https://bit.ly/2WTkj9i
• Court’s order on Texas heartbeat ban encourages pro-lifers https://bit.ly/3yI5oMK

• Unspeakable Wedding Performed By Pastor

• http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1337,03-Sep-1959.pdf

• Amy: Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
• Jonathan: Chris Renzema – Get out of the way of your own heart

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Trevin Wax joins us to talk about The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill as well as his new role at the North American Mission Board.

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  • The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith https://amzn.to/3jpHCAu

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North Carolina, Mississippi, and the SBTC all proposed increases in their national CP giving this week, and Brandon Porter has been tapped as the next leader of Baptist Press.

• CP increase, restructure approved by North Carolina Baptists’ executive committee – https://bit.ly/3mCTBwv
• Mississippi, Texas see budget increases, anticipate strong CP – https://bit.ly/3DmrgR9
• SBTC board affirms NAMB collaboration, elects leaders – https://bit.ly/3kqTkdE
• Brandon Porter named associate vice president for convention news – https://bit.ly/3BepHD1
• TRUSTEES: Mandrell shares strategy for next era of Lifeway ministry – https://bit.ly/3DjC9TV
• Lifeway names chief marketing officer; Patterson poised to leave ERLC – https://bit.ly/3BavTfc
• FBC Sutherland Springs to demolish building where gunman killed 26 worshipers – https://bit.ly/3klOVbO
• Melson elected SBU president – https://bit.ly/3gDdYG9
• Seminaries, colleges take steps to address COVID concerns – https://bit.ly/2Y0CIln
• MBTS community mourns loss of student, spouse, friend – https://bit.ly/2XPwuVd
• Missouri’s oldest associational leader dies at 95 – https://bit.ly/3DlC6XO
• Dozens still missing in record Tennessee floods; Southern Baptists responding – https://bit.ly/3BgshZb

• Gospel Spreads: The Tale of Two Dollars

• http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/890,25-Aug-1957.pdf

• Amy: Sad stories told for laughs: Thomas McKenzie
• Jonathan: Prayer guide for Afghanistan

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SBC President Ed Litton announced the theme for next year’s SBC Annual Meeting at a pastors’ luncheon this week in Southern California. Later in the week Litton and Southern Baptist leaders went to the border to showcase work happening to aid in migrant care.

• Litton joins California Baptists in migrant ministry on border – https://bit.ly/3gfciT6
• Unity comes from a focus on Jesus, Litton says – https://bit.ly/3mkvK4S
• California pastors begin planning for SBC ‘22 – https://bit.ly/3kdImb0
• Southern Baptists begin assessment, response to Haiti earthquake – https://bit.ly/3gfqcV9
• Send Relief, World Relief working together to resettle Afghan refugees – https://bit.ly/3mgBqwv
• MBTS introduces new online learning opportunities for women – https://bit.ly/2XCI0TL
• HLGU campus damaged by wind, rain – https://bit.ly/3mfztRb

• The Fall of the USSR

• http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4240,05-Aug-1976.pdf

• Amy: Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis
• Jonathan: Knowing Jesus Ministries

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Zach Williams and Elevation church racked up on Dove Award nominations this week, and the Dixie fire severely damaged a Northern California church. Southern Baptists also lost a pair of legends.

• Elevation Worship, Zach Williams, for KING & COUNTRY lead Dove nods – https://bit.ly/3xDObDD
• Fire destroys portion of Northern California church – https://bit.ly/3yJTu5R
• Don Stewart, professor emeritus at NOBTS, dies at 85 – https://bit.ly/3sdrNja
• Bowden saw his players as more than a jersey, says longtime FSU chaplain – https://bit.ly/2UiuGTs

• Historic Chapel to Be Sold
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/889,13-Aug-1957.pdf

• Amy: Redeemed (feat. Branan Murphy, Mia Lazar, Michael Georges Jr.)
• Jonathan: MBTS launches ‘CALLED’ online resource