Thursday, February 09, 2012

'What kind of shadow do you cast?' Wright asks


"What kind of shadow do you cast?" Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright asked in his chapel message at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Wright is pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., which hosts the seminary's largest extension center -- the North Georgia Hub.

In the early church, Wright told the chapel audience, the Apostle Peter was a person of great influence. As recounted in Acts 5:14-15: "Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers -- crowds of both men and women. As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them." Keep reading

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