Conservative Post

I found this today. Thought it was well worth repeating. The original post can be found  here.

…would be a man who has a deep longing for revival and renewal in SBC churches. He would be the kind of man who has a fervent passion for the Lord Jesus and an unshakable commitment to His Word. He would be the kind of man who would travel to all 50 States and tell pastors that the Bible is not only inerrant, but wonderfully sufficient for our lives and ministry. He would recognize that in the long term more souls can be reached for the Lord Jesus not through yet another evangelistic initiative, but by healthy SBC churches where members are living in obedience to the Word of God. He would have a passion to see Christians love their Lord with all their minds, and he would not denigrate theology but celebrate it. Yet his most pressing concern would be that SBC churches are, well, “together for the gospel”, and he would do all he could to see that Southern Baptists around the world know the gospel, love the gospel, and are willing to defend the gospel at all costs. He would be a man of prayer, and he would call all Southern Baptists into a season of repentance for our faithlessness to Christ and our spiritual lukewarmness. He would urge all Southern Baptists to join together in praying and fasting for God to bring about a great awakening in our land. But he would also recognize that such an awakening can only come from sound preaching and a proper understanding of Biblical evangelism, and he would be earnest to see both increase in our denomination. He would be a man of integrity, a man who puts his family first, and man with a backbone. He would not be a politician, but he would be a statesman, and he would be characterized by humility.

Do you know such a man? It matters little to me whether he is a layman, a small-church pastor, or a megachurch pastor. If he loves the Lord Jesus and has a passion for revival and renewal in our convention, accompanied by a firm commitment to the sufficiency of Scripture – please consider nominating him today.

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