2006 Archives
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TOGETHER: Real missions makes us more like Jesus
Posted: 9/29/06
TOGETHER:
Real missions makes us more like JesusCan missions work ever be wrong? Does some kind of mission activity make God sick at heart? Apparently so.
Jesus spoke seven woes (Matthew 23) upon the Pharisees and other religious scholars and leaders of his day. They were more knowledgeable regarding the Bible than any other people. They were credentialed, admired, but haughty and self-righteous as well. And the second of the seven woes (in this word “woes” is the pathos of God’s heart including wrath and pain, anger and sorrow) is this surprising word: “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are” (Matthew 23:15).
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
The Judaism of Jesus’ time was vigorous in its missionary efforts. This mission zeal abated after the destruction of the temple some 30 years after Jesus’ death and resurrection. What is on Jesus’ mind here? Could he mean that when converts are made by men, rather than by the power of God’s Holy Spirit, they still are unconverted?
On one occasion, Billy Graham met a man on a downtown street who clearly was drunk and wasted by his sin. “Oh, Mr. Graham, I am so glad to see you. You converted me in one of your meetings.”
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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UMHB students invest time in neighborhood children
Posted: 9/29/06
Students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor teach neighborhood children a biblical story about sowing good seed. UMHB students invest time
in neighborhood childrenBy Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—Business management student Felicia Cano sees her Tuesday and Thursday afternoons as an investment.
“It really gives us the opportunity to invest in kids’ lives,” said Cano, a University of Mary Hardin-Baylor junior from Bay City.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Waco church for homeless inspires others
Posted: 9/29/06
About 20 Lexington, Ky.,-area churches, including six congregations in the Kentucky Baptist Convention, have helped conduct services for homeless people inspired by Waco's Church Under The Bridge. Waco church for homeless inspires others
By Ken Walker
Special to the Baptist Standard
LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Church Under the Bridge in the Lexington, Ky., serves the same type of homeless and low-income people as a Waco congregation that inspired it—even though the Kentucky congregation never has met under a bridge.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Valley investigation could cost $150,000
Posted: 9/29/06
Valley investigation could cost $150,000
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board will learn Oct. 31 the results of an investigation into alleged mismanagement of church-starting funds in the Rio Grande Valley—a probe that could cost up to $150,000.
At the board’s Sept. 25-26 meeting, Chairman Bob Fowler of Houston announced a called board meeting from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Baptist Building in Dallas. At that time, Brownsville Attorney Diane Dillard will present findings from the five-month investigation she has headed.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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WorldconneX links layman’s vision with village’s need
Posted: 9/29/06
WorldconneX links layman’s
vision with village’s needBy David Williams
WorldconneX
PASADENA—A Texas Baptist layman wanted to provide a water well for someone in another country. A village in Kenya needed a source for water. And the WorldconneX missions network matched the resource to the need through Buckner Orphan Care International.
It started when Lee Vaughn, a retired oil company worker, approached retired missionary John Mills, who teaches adult Sunday school at South Main Baptist Church in Pasadena.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn by Berry Simpson: Perfect lawn
Posted: 9/29/06
CYBER COLUMN:
Perfect lawn
By Berry Simpson
I have been reading a book I found on the new-book shelf at the Midland County Library, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, by Ted Steinberg. One amazing fact I’ve learned: Americans spend an estimated $40 billion a year on lawn care.
Steinberg would be disappointed to know that the Simpson family doesn’t have a lawn in the front yard; at least, not a conventional turf-grass lawn. Some years ago, we replaced our grass with a variety of ground covers that some former neighbors might say is nothing but “a big science fair experiment.” The reason we did it was because we wanted something different and more interesting, and because I decided I was sick of mowing. We were successful. Our yard is interesting, if confusing, and I only mow the front yard once a year when Cyndi makes me cut down the Vinca after the daisies have dropped their flowers.
Berry D. Simpson 09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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McKissic wants SBC to address ‘tongues’ in Baptist Faith & Message
Posted: 9/22/06
McKissic wants SBC to address
'tongues' in Baptist Faith & MessageBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (ABP)—A Southern Baptist trustee, whose recent seminary chapel sermon was partially censored over his comments on speaking in tongues, has asked that the denomination address the issue in its official confession of faith.
Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, and a trustee at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in nearby Fort Worth, publicized a letter he sent to members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, which met Sept. 18-19 in Nashville, Tenn.
Dwight McKissic 09/22/2006 - By John Rutledge
