Summarized points in our visit …
· Enjoy this radio conversation with Dr. John Yeats, Executive Director of the nearly 1,900 churches of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
· Southern Baptists are a “Kingdom” people, appreciating, partnering with and recognizing as brothers and sisters “born-again” people anywhere and everywhere;
· There are nearly 1,900 locally autonomous SBC churches in Missouri, with about 50-60 church “plants” being added each year – but cooperating in many ways to do ministry better than alone;
· Leading preachers among Southern Baptists (all heard on Bott Radio Network) include the “late” Dr. Adrian Rogers, Dr. David Jeremiah, and Dr. Charles Stanley, considerable defining the message and Bible-believing theology of Southern Baptists are;
· At the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in St. Louis, there is a great focus – led by Convention President Dt. Ronnie Floyd (www.ronniefloyd.com) – on seeking God in repentance and prayer for the next “Great Awakening” … and … seriously addressing and repenting of any remaining racism, thus improving race relations;
· During the Pastors’ Conference the Sunday night and Monday preceding the Convention sessions, an offering will be received in behalf of the First Baptist Church of Ferguson to finance initiatives to racial healing (the church is currently composed of perhaps 30% black members … with the Sunday School Joan Hendrick and I attend made up of about half black and half white);
· Recognizing the important role of the SBC’s “Cooperative Program” wherein churches donate millions into a central fund for distribution to advance local, national, and worldwide missions;
· For 19 years … with the 20th anticipated … John Yeats has been the “Recording Secretary” of the SBC, one of five national officers of the Southern Baptist Convention…
· And more …