Oʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟʟʏ ᴘᴏsᴛᴇᴅ Nᴏᴠ. 9, 2016
Editor’s note: The following column, written in 2016, has continued to be one of the most widely read articles ever posted on the B&R website. In 2020, it was the seventh most viewed article of the year. With COVID-19 still with us, it may be time to run the article again to remind us that now, more than ever before, we must not be complacent as Christians and churches.
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines “complacency” as “a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder.”
Complacency can apply to individuals or organizations, including the church.
I found the word “complacency” in the Bible only once in Proverbs 1:32, HCBS: “For the waywardness of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.” There may be other verses that actually use the word itself, but there are many verses throughout Scripture that refer to the meaning of complacency. [Read more…]
Messengers from across the Southern Baptist Convention will travel to Music City in June (COVID-permitting) for their annual meeting to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
Over the years I/Baptist and Reflector have been “killed” countless times, not with bullets but with words.
Last year a friend gave me a copy of Lee Strobel’s book, The Case for Christmas. The book is not new, having been written in 1998. I had heard of the book but this was the first time I actually held it in in my hand and began to read through it.
Psalm 144:4 (HCSB) reminds us, “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”
COVID-19 has caused a lot of planned activities in 2020 to be canceled or postponed.
There is an ongoing debate in our nation today over the effectiveness of facemasks preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
Though we are nearing the four-month mark of the pandemic and some churches have begun to meet again, we’re still not back to where we were (before COVID-19).