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Episode #018

The recap of the SBC executive committee meeting, discuss an embezzlement of more than $900,000 from the Home Missions Board in the 1920s, and interview David Platt about the recent reorganization at the IMB.

News Recap

Interview with David Platt, president, IMB

This Week in SBC History

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SBC 2016 – Awaken America

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Episode #017

This week’s news of a major shakeup in Georgia, some new faces in new places, and share a stat about the IMB that might blow your mind.

News Recap

This Week in SBC History

Resources of the Week

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Episode #016

A look at this week’s news, feature an interview with Dr. Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and discuss the upcoming SBC symposium hosted by MBTS.

News Recap

SBC Symposium Preview & an Interview with Dr. Jason Allen

This Week in SBC History

Adrian Rogers is born in 1931

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Episode #015

We recap this week’s news, further discuss the major restructuring at IMB, and take a look at the open letter David Platt penned to the SBC.

News Recap

IMB Realignment

This Week in SBC History

IMB Commissions Its First Missionary

On September 1, 1845, the Foreign Mission Board appointed its first missionary, Samuel C. Clopton. He was from Virginia and was a graduate of Columbian College. He was sent to China, which Southern Baptists had designated as the first strategic location for missions. He represents the beginning of what we called “one sacred effort, for the propagation of the Gospel.”

For 170 years, we have believed that we can do more together than we can do apart. When we think about the experience of the commissioning service at the SBC Annual Meeting every year, that is such a special moment for the messengers in attendance. The July 1846 issue of the Southern Baptist Missionary Journal gives a report on the very first meeting of the SBC. In it, there’s a paragraph that reads,

“Another circumstance served to swell the interest and pleasure of the meeting. Brethren Clopton and Pearcy, with their companions, expecting in a few days to embark for the distant land of China, were present, and mingling very probably for the last time with their brethren. During the progress of the meeting, brother Clopton was solemnly set apart, by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery, to the work of the Christian ministry. The services were witnessed by a crowded, solemn, and deeply attentive auditory.” Later, it said “Of all the meetings held in our city during the recent session of the Convention, none surpassed this in interest. The scenes of that occasion will be long remembered, as affording new evidence of the divine favor on our efforts, and of the increasing desire of God’s people to give the nations of the earth the blessed gospel of the Son of God. We had assembled to commemorate a new era in the history of missions.” That same journal had an article about their departure: “Their remarks were brief but pertinent. They concluded with asking that Christians at home would pray God to bestow on them His sustaining grace. The wives of the missionaries were then affectionately addressed and the scene closed by singing the hymn “Hail, sweetest, dearest tie that binds;” while one after another of the congregation, amid floods of tears, bid a long adieu to the brethren and sisters whom they never expected to meet on earth.”

I still believe today that we can do more together than we can do apart. We have had a lot to talk about in the last couple of weeks, and many people are thinking about the best ways to move forward. But the truth is that the Lord has done and is doing a great, great work through the thousands upon thousands of people that have been sent on mission through the IMB. And it all started this week in SBC history.

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Episode #014

A recap of this week’s news, discuss the major restructuring at IMB and introduce a new segment on SBC history.

News Recap

IMB Realignment

This Week in SBC History

Resources of the Week

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Episode #013

This week’s news and discuss the results of the Great Commission Resurgence after five years.

News Recap

Great Commission Resurgence

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Episode #012

A feature an interview with Juan Sanchez and a story about a new Hispanic affinity group in the SBC.

News Recap

An Interview with Juan Sanchez, pastor, High Pointe Baptist Church

Resources of the Week – 36:17

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Episode #011

A look at both the Send Conference and the ERLC National Conference and highlight all that’s going on around the SBC regarding the Planned Parenthood videos and a new resource from LifeWay on the sanctity of human life.

News Recap

Resources of the Week

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Episode #010

We discuss some fascinating new research from LifeWay Research about the perceptions of religious rights in America. We also talk with Jill Waggoner about Global Hunger Relief and make up for leaving off a few selections coffee, burgers, and more in this episode of SBC This Week.

News Recap

Interview with Jill Waggoner, lead brand strategist for Global Hunger Relief

Preview of Nashville (continued)

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Episode #009

A few news items to discuss from the week and spend the bulk of the time on a preview of Nashville ahead of the Send Conference. Find out where to find the best coffee, burgers, and more in this episode of SBC This Week.

Entity News

Preview of Nashville

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