Georgia Pastor James Merritt explains resolutions during the SBC Annual Meeting in Nashville. By Tom Strode NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting approved a broad resolution on the Bible’s sufficiency regarding race and racial reconciliation Tuesday (June 15) but chose not to address specifically the contentious issue of critical race theory. […]
To be clear, I don’t have all the answers for racial reconciliation, yet I am confident that as we turn to God’s Word, we will find them…
“Twenty percent of our local churches are comprised of races other than Euro-Americans.”
“For there to be change in the Georgia Baptist Convention there needs to be more voices at the Georgia Baptist Mission Board table.”
Linguistic lessons were part of the early effort toward racial reconciliation in the Southern Baptist Convention.