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ANNUAL MEETING WAS A WELCOMED RELIEF

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

-Photo: Baptist Press

Southern Baptists came to Nashville in droves for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in mid-June and they were a welcome sight for a city and state still trying to recover from the economic shutdown caused by COVID-19 in 2020.

If you walked anywhere in the downtown area, you saw people lined up outside, waiting to get into restaurants. And, for the most part, those waiting didn’t seem to mind. It gave them added opportunity for fellowship with friends they had not seen since the Birmingham annual meeting in 2019. [Read more…]

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COMING BACK WITH A BANG

After year’s absence, messengers return for ministry, business, fellowship

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Baptist Messengers show their ballots during a vote at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville.
— Photo by Eric Brown

NASHVILLE — One year after COVID-19 forced the cancelation of the 2020 annual  meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptists came out in force in Nashville on June 15-16 with the highest messenger count since 1995 — and the largest since the turn of the century in 2000.

The messenger count totaled 15,726, marking the largest gathering since 11,959 messengers attended the SBC annual meeting in 2000 in Orlando. The number also far exceeded the 11,641 messengers who attended the last SBC held in Nashville in 2005. [Read more…]

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SBC DISFELLOWSHIPS SEVIER COUNTY BAPTIST CHURCH

Compiled by B&R staff

NASHVILLE — A Southern Baptist Convention church affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the Sevier County Association of Baptists is one of four churches that have been disfellowship by the SBC Executive Committee (EC).

Antioch Baptist Church in Sevierville was dropped for employing a pastor who confessed to two counts of statutory rape. Also disfellowship for affirming homosexuality were Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Ga., and St. Matthews Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky. West Side Baptist Church in Sharpsville, Pa., was disfellowshipped for employing as its pastor a registered sex offender. [Read more…]

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PAUL PRESSLER TARGETED IN TEXAS LAWSUIT

By David Roach
Baptist Press

Paul Pressler, pictured here in 2004, has denied a lawsuit’s allegations of sexual abuse.
-BP file photo

HOUSTON (BP) — A lawsuit alleging decades of sexual abuse by retired Texas state judge Paul Pressler has named a Southern Baptist Convention entity among its co-defendants.

Following multiple media reports on the Oct. 18 suit, Pressler’s legal team released a statement today (Dec. 12) to Baptist Press, in which attorney Ted Tredennick called the allegations “frivolous.” [Read more…]

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