This article first appeared at www.conventionalthinking.org, which is the location for R. Albert Mohler Jr.’s articles on the Southern Baptist Convention.
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The Great Commission Task Force is gathering in Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex for important meetings as we continue the work assigned to us by the Southern Baptist Convention. Please pray for the Task Force to be granted wisdom as we seek to discern what will help Southern Baptists to be more faithful in obeying the Great Commission.
On Tuesday we will be meeting with the majority of the Executive Directors of the state conventions for a very important session. Please pray that we will all hear each other, speak honestly to each other, and hold each other accountable to a Great Commission vision that will require the very best and the very most from all of us.
We face hard questions. Questions of finance and structure are secondary to the missional questions of reaching North America and the world beyond. We are living in a denominational house built long before the revolutions in transportation, communications, and geopolitics that have simultaneously made the world smaller and larger than ever before.
We are privileged to be able to ask these questions — and even to ask what questions we must ask. We are drowning in data. Please pray that we will be led to the insights, judgments, and proposals that will best serve Southern Baptists as we face the future together.
I’ll report back as we make progress.