Recruiting existing churches to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention is among the components of convention president Ronnie Floyd's strategy to extend the reach of SBC missions and ministries.
One of three challenges Floyd issued to the SBC Executive Committee in a mid-February address was "to call forth other churches to come into our family and cooperate with us to finish the task of advancing the Gospel to every person in the world."
Because "our mission is becoming so clear that we are here to reach the world for Jesus Christ, I believe there are churches all over America who have an interest in becoming a part of our network of churches called Southern Baptists," Floyd, pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, said.
"... What if we begin to call forth churches aggressively and outwardly, 'Come and be a part of who we are and cooperate in reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.'" Floyd asked.
There may be hundreds or even thousands of non-Southern Baptist churches in America, Floyd said, that affirm the doctrines articulated in the Baptist Faith & Message, admire the SBC's methods of doing missions across the world and would be willing to help finance that work. Keep reading
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The Baptist Faith and Message [PDF]
An Exposition from the Faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on The Bapist Faith and Message 2000 [PDF]
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