Friday, June 12, 2009

Southern Baptists Seek Vitality

Decades of painful conservative-moderate fights. Stagnant baptism rates. Membership malaise. Surveying the state of the Southern Baptist Convention, seminary president Danny Akin can sum it all up in just six words.

"Business as usual," he said, "is not working."

Seeking to turn things around for the nation's largest Protestant body, Akin has teamed up with SBC President Johnny Hunt to draft a "Great Commission Resurgence" declaration that will be presented to the Baptists' annual meeting on June 23-24 in Louisville, Ky.

The goal is to find a new way forward after several high-profile campaigns to boost the number of baptisms -- a key measure of vitality and an article of faith for Baptists -- fell flat.

Read it all here.

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