The Sbc and the 21st Century

by Allen, Jason K.

• ISBN13: 9781535944571
• ISBN10: 1535944579
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-05-15
• Publisher: BROADMAN & HOLMAN PUB

Summary

The Southern Baptist Convention is currently facing issues that challenge its identity, heritage, and future. In The SBC and the 21st Century, Revised Edition, key leaders address critical issues such as:

·        Will the SBC grow more unified around shared convictions and mission or will it fragment over secondary concerns and tertiary doctrinal differences?
·        Will the SBC be able to maintain a distinct Baptist identity while engaging and partnering with the broader evangelical community?
·        Will the SBC be willing to reimagine its structures, programs, and efforts to effectively reach the world for Christ or will it risk being a past-tense denomination?

This volume not only promotes meaningful dialogue, it calls leaders throughout the SBC into action. Extensive thought, research, assessment, and wisdom from some of the SBC’s brightest minds have been poured into this volume with the intent of rendering a helpful contribution to SBC life that will propel forward the collective work of Southern Baptists well into the 21st century.

Author Biography

Jason K. Allen is president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Russell D. Moore
Preface           
Acknowledgments      

INTRODUCTION
A Never-Changing Witness in an Ever-Changing World: The Enduring Southern Baptist Mandate          
     Jason K. Allen

PART 1: SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND COOPERATION
1. How the Cooperative Program Empowers Churches to Gospel Ministry    
     Robert J. Matz & John Mark Yeats
2. By the Numbers: What SBC Demographics Tell Us About Our Past, Present, and Future       
     Thom S. Rainer
3. From Babylon Baptist to Baptists in Babylon: The SBC and the Broader Evangelical Community          
     Collin Hansen & Justin Taylor
4. The Future of Baptist State Conventions      
     Paul Chitwood & John L. Yeats
 
PART 2: SOUTHERN BAPTIST DOCTRINE AND DISTINCTIVES
5. Southern Baptists and the Quest for Theological Identity: Unavoidable Questions for the Twenty-First Century            
     R. Albert Mohler Jr.
6. Who Are Southern Baptists? Toward an Intergenerational Identity  
     David S. Dockery
7. More than Fifteen Million Southern Baptists? Recovering Regenerate Church Membership           
     John Mark Yeats
8. A Denomination Always for the Church: Ecclesiological Distinctives as a Basis for Confessional Cooperation    
     Jason G. Duesing
9. Steel-Toed Birkenstocks and Doctrine-Loving Christians: Southern Baptist Witness and Ethics in the New Sexual Age    
     Owen D. Strachan
 
PART 3: SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTRY AND MISSION
10. Kindling Afresh the Gift of God: Spiritual Renewal, Strategic Reinvention, and the SBC           
     Ronnie Floyd
11. The Future of the IMB and Our Collaborative Great Commission Work     
     David Platt
12. Every Church on a Mission: The North American Mission Board in the Twenty-First Century            
     Kevin Ezell
13. Training the Next Generation of Pastors, Ministers, and Missionaries: Southern Baptist Theological Education in the Twenty-First Century    
     Jason K. Allen
14. Preach the Word! Biblical Preaching and Congregational Renewal     
     Tony Merida
15. Every Kindred, Tongue, and Tribe? Ethnic Diversity in the SBC     
     Daniel L. Akin & Walter R. Strickland II

Conclusion      
     Jason K. Allen

Appendix A    
Appendix B    
Contributors   
Name and Subject Index