Mike Stone to be nominated as president of the SBC
Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Georgia, will be nominated as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Georgia, will be nominated as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
“Christians must be able to engage in honest discourse…”
“…there is nothing we can do about our past, but we can do a whole lot about our future.”
Louisiana pastor Brad Jurkovich will nominate Ken Hemphill for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The articles, each containing six identical questions…
“The basis of our unity in the SBC has always been the Gospel …”
“… we must restore trust and civility in our conversations about each other.”
“We desire to elect a man who is a Southern Baptist through and through…”
“I am again allowing my name to be placed in nomination.”
Gaines “has led the convention faithfully” over the past year…
An unofficial total of 7,321 registered messengers were at the meeting – up from 5,407 last year.