2008 SBC Presidential Candidates Respond to Questions

I know I haven’t posted much if anything on the Southern Baptist Convention or the presidency but the truth of the matter is I am very interested considering I do consider myself for the most part a Southern Baptist. Yes folks…there it is I said it.

After finding out that Al Mohler would not be running for presidency of the convention I was of course disappointed but am excited and have high hopes for the current candidates. I have to admit that I haven’t been able to keep up much with all that is going on in the convention lately due to more important and exciting things happening in my life right now such as…well…getting married and moving in just about a month.

To get to know our candidates better I have posted some links from Baptist Press on the current candidates. Questions were asked of each candidate ranging from what his primary message would be to Southern Baptists if elected president to the issue regenerate church membership. The questions were standardized with one individualized question for each person.

Frank Cox’s responses to questionnaire

Wiley Drake’s responses to questionnaire

Johnny Hunt’s responses to questionnaire

Les Puryear’s responses to questionnaire

Bill Wagner’s responses to questionnaire

Avery Willis’ responses to questionnaire

On Reading the Greek New Testament

Jim Hamilton writes:

Lee Irons has some good advice on Reading through the Greek New Testament year by year. He has even worked up a one year calendar for doing it. If anyone knows of similar resources for the Old Testament in Hebrew (and/or Greek), I would be grateful to know of them.

He is also putting together syntactical notes on the Greek New Testament, which you can get to by scrolling down this page until you see the heading “Greek New Testament.”

If you decide to read through the Greek New Testament, be careful. The things in that book got most of its authors killed, and when people have taken it seriously in the history of the church, crazy things like the reformation have happened and some folks even got themselves burned at the stake.

The Greek New Testament is decidedly unsafe. If you embrace it, you will be hated (see John 15:18-20). To paraphrase Lester De Koster: there it is, throbbing on your desk, the living word of God.

How to Waste Your Seminary Education

45 effective ways to waste your seminary education by Derek Brown.  Click here to check them out.

(HT: JT)

Mahaney on Leadership and Family Vacations (Series)

C.J. Mahaney of Sovereign Grace Ministries has just completed a challenging and informative series on the father’s role during family vacations. Although I am currently not in this role this is definitely a resource I plan to keep close to in the future. I posted a little piece about it in an earlier post. Below is the outline.

(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Outline

1. A Servant Heart
2. A Tone-Setting Attitude
3. An Awareness of Indwelling Sin
4. Studying Your Family
5. Skillful Surprises
6. Intentionally Together
7. Gratefulness to God

(***Update*** click here for the PDF)

Unreached Amazon Tribe in Brazil

During work I’ve setup some feeds from MSNBC on Outlook to keep me up to date on what’s going on in the world. I was amazed to see this article pop up. For most believers unreached typically means known groups that have not been reached with the Gospel. This brings unreached to a new level. This tribe is one of the few in the world who have been untouched by the civilized world. I haven’t thought about it too much but at this point I do agree with some that we should preserve their autonomy.

Who will take up the challenge? How would you contextualize the Gospel to them?

(***Updated MSNBC Article***)

A Taste of New Attitude 2008

Josh Harris has posted a taste of the New Attitude Conference. I have posted the audio in an earlier post but just in case you missed it you can click here.