Lots of noise on the announcement of the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) Task force: Keep legal SBC name, but adopt informal name, ‘Great Commission Baptists’. I think name is an improvement over SBC. BTW, in case you were wondering how Southern the SBC is, check out the

I responded to an article on the tension caused when International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries interact with people from other cultures who handle the issue of drinking alcohol differently.  FYI, IMB missionaries are not only prohibited from any alcohol use, most of the trustees

The North American Mission Board (NAMB) has decided to focus on church planting. In 2009, NAMB spent 28% of its budget on church planting. In 2011, 37%; in 2012, plans to spend at least 42%. This has resulted in mass staff restructuring at NAMB and resulted in a 16% decrease on the NA

Had another meeting between leadership of three churches in our church planting network and the state denominational (Baptist Convention of Iowa [BCI]) staff and officers recently. After nearly three hours of discussion, here is my analysis of the issues:

Met a new state denominational leader this week.  As we were considering a new partnership between the organization and our church, he said something surprising. He said that the state denominational organization has an identical function as a local church, but the only difference was