• Varied church leadership models examined at G-5 conference

  Diverse leadership styles exist in Texas Baptist churches—and each offers its strengths and its challenges, pastors and other church leaders learned from panelists at the G-5 leadership conference, held in conjunction with the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.

  11/20/2009 - By admin

• Calvinism’s structure provides for comprehensive worldview

  Speakers at the G-5 Conference agreed that examining John Calvin’s theology leads Baptists to embrace a more biblical worldview.

  11/20/2009 - By admin

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  Executive director asks: Consider ‘What if?’

  Offering a series of “What if?” questions with obviously affirmative answers, Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director Randel Everett challenged Texas Baptists to make sure the doctrines they believe make a radical impact on their lives—and the lives of their neighbors.

  11/20/2009 - By admin

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  DBU student athletes serve thanksgiving meal to needy

  More than 170 members of the DBU Patriots athletic teams filled the Fair Park Centennial Building in Dallas Nov. 10 for the third annual H-E-B Feast of Sharing—a free thanksgiving meal for the homeless and people in need.

  11/20/2009 - By admin

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  Christians need to share the full spectrum of salvation, pastor says

  Baptists long have demonstrated expertise at telling the story of salvation. “It’s what we do,” said Duane Brooks, pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston. But Baptists often share an incomplete story.

  11/20/2009 - By admin

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  Group says proposed prison likely unconstitutional

  A church-state watchdog group says a faith-based prison being proposed in Oklahoma would likely be unconstitutional.

  11/19/2009 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Mission Centers of Houston, which for more than 40 years has sought to help people in poverty, will hold a fundraiser Dec. 10 at the Met Church at 7 p.m.

  11/19/2009 - By admin

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  How will Texas Baptists respond to ‘tsunami’ of prisoners’ families?

  The next disaster facing the United States isn’t a hurricane, tornado or flood, a Huntsville pastor insisted. It’s a ‘tsunami’ of families affected by incarceration, which may be as large as 350,000 people.

  11/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Prison ministry weekend sees 1,405 people accept Christ

  More than 200 volunteers shared their faith with 14,000 offenders in the Pam Lynchner State Prison and the Harris County jail, and 1,405 men and women became followers of Christ. In all, more than 2,400 spiritual decisions were made as a result of the outreach.

  11/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Georgia Baptist Convention cuts ties with church led by woman pastor

  The Georgia Baptist Convention has ended its 148-year-old relationship with First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., over the congregation's 2007 vote to hire a woman as senior pastor.

  11/16/2009 - By Administrator

• Fort Worth church declines to send messengers to BGCT

  Rather than face a challenge from the floor, Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth chose not to send messengers to the state convention, saying it was “in the best interests of both our church and the BGCT.”

  11/15/2009 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs: IMB to cut missionary force by 600

  Southern Baptists will be forced to draw down their overseas missions force in 2010 by as many as 600 missionaries, International Mission Board trustees were told Nov. 10.

  11/15/2009 - By admin