Cross-Cultural Church Planting Training
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Discipleship, Ecclesiology, Evangelism, Geoff Baggett, International Mission Board, Missional, Missions, SBC Issues | 1 Comment »I'm forced to write this post several days in advance because (as you are reading this) I am currently outside the United States. I am leading my church's third team of the year to the Pachitea Province in Peru. ...
“Time to Change” - An Analysis
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Geoff Baggett, International Mission Board, Missions, SBC Issues, SBC News, Uncategorized | 46 Comments »A couple of us at sbc IMPACT! "caught wind" of the coming "Time to Change" initiative late last week. I knew that a press release was forthcoming. I considered running it, but, in the end, chose not to ...
Southern Baptist VBS … Time to “Break the Mold?”
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Discipleship, Geoff Baggett, Missional, Missions, Student Ministry | 5 Comments »I'll never forget that day. It was late-June in 2003. Our one-year-old church was hosting its second-ever Vacation Bible School. A team of youth and adults from a sister church in Tennessee came to help us. Being the ...
Anybody Else Feel This Way?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Geoff Baggett, Ministry | 7 Comments »Sunday is my favorite day of the week. I am blessed to serve alongside so many wonderful people. I love my work, my calling, my ministry, my church, and my family in the Lord. I also love to take a ...
Should Men (of God) Be “Enshrined?”
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Current Events, Geoff Baggett, SBC News | 9 Comments »Baptist Press is reporting that the Convention of Southern Baptist Evangelists will honor its first group of inductees of the COSBE Hall of Faith -– recognizing vocational evangelists who have dedicated years of service to the task of soul-winning. ...
Church Life from Church Death?
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Church Planting, Geoff Baggett, Missional, SBC Issues | 13 Comments »I “blog met” Rob Mitchell last year when he visited my old blog. Rob is, by day, a computer guru with a large company in my old home town of Memphis, Tennessee. In the evenings he is a student in ...
The Memphis Manatee - A Metaphor of Our Churches?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Culture, Geoff Baggett, Missional, SBC Issues | 23 Comments »A couple of years ago I received the weekly newsletter from Cordova Baptist Church in Memphis (I once served as Youth Pastor there), and was shocked to learn that a manatee had been spotted in the Mississippi River. It was ...
Gone Fishing …
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Evangelism, Geoff Baggett | 8 Comments »Okay, I'll admit it. Making a spiritual application from this picture might be a bit of a stretch. But I had to show it ... again. This is my dream fish … a surf fishing trophy of a lifetime. I ...
Bible Interpretation - 1 Corinthians 6:1-7
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Bible, Culture, Current Events, Geoff Baggett | 20 Comments »Should Christians sue other believers? This is a timely topic in Southern Baptist life, in light of the recent high-profile lawsuit brought by Dr. Sheri Klouda against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and seminary president, Dr. Paige Patterson. Dr. Klouda ...
The Greening of the SBC (Part II)
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Geoff Baggett, SBC Issues, SBC News, Theology | 26 Comments »As I was saying yesterday... I suppose my biggest issue with this “Declaration” is centered upon its purpose. Why make such a statement? Why a “declaration?” Why signatures? Why such a big deal? Why did it ...
