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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Cooperative ProgramFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: MEMPHIS (BP) – The Ellis Auditorium was brand new May 13, 1925, when Southern Baptists met on a spring afternoon and voted to begin the Cooperative Program. Today (May 13), though the auditorium is gone, Southern Baptists gathered a just few yards away from the original location to recommit to cooperative partnership.
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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Tony Wolfe |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Share this post: I admit the topic of this blogpost might not quickly grab your attention – but I challenge you to keep reading. The world needs us to have this discussion. In fact, our basic Christian obedience is at stake if we ignore this topic. To help you and your church do the Great Commission, here are some ways to begin to think globally. Expand your vision, and perhaps your burden for the nations will increase. Listen to (or read) the news with Great Commission ears and eyes.
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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Tony Wolfe |Scott Barkley
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A children’s pastor at a Triangle area church has been arrested for distributing child sexual abuse material involving a young girl. Aaron Luke Bradley, 30, of Wake Forest was arrested on Tuesday, May 6, when Wake Forest Police Department detectives with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant at a local residence.
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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Tony Wolfe |Scott Barkley
Metadata: Topic(s): Culture, International NewsFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: PHILADELPHIA (BP) – From a global vantage point unique to its study of the Bible’s impact on U.S. adults, the American Bible Society (ABS) said Americans revere Scripture, faith and church more than others in a geographical cluster described as the “secular west.” Including the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the cluster, the ABS said only 37 percent of secular west residents...
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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Tony Wolfe |Scott Barkley
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — In the past few years, Americans have grown generally more positive toward the Bible, but that doesn’t mean they’re reading it more. According to a Lifeway Research study, U.S. adults increasingly view the Bible as a book worth reading multiple times, but few have actually done so. More Americans describe the Bible as true, life-changing and helpful today, compared to a 2016 Lifeway Research study.
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1 day ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Tony Wolfe |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: KINGSTON, Tenn. – Eight women sat around a table, their laughter filling Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Flour flew in all directions as Janice Poland instructed the group of 70- to 82-year-old women on how to make fried apple and peach pies. They have a hefty goal of making 2,000.
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6 days ago | 
kentuckytoday.com | Sue Sprenkle
It’s been two years since the International Mission Board re-emphasized finding and researching unengaged and unreached people groups around the world. Project 3000 was born out of Southern Baptists’ commitment to ensure every people group has access to the gospel. Together, we send missionaries to explore the last 3,072 unengaged people groups who are thought to have no gospel access or missionary presence.
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1 week ago | 
kentuckytoday.com | Sue Sprenkle
Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that’s not really the case. “Senegal is less evangelical than Iran,” Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam.
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mbcpathway.com | Sue Sprenkle
Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that’s not really the case. “Senegal is less evangelical than Iran,” Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam.
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1 week ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Chip Hutcheson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the Gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that’s not really the case. “Senegal is less evangelical than Iran,” Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam.
