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The SBC and the 21st Century: Reflection, Renewal & Recommitment, rev. ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Southern Baptist Convention is currently facing issues that challenge its identity, heritage, and future. In The SBC and the 21st Century, Revised Edition, key leaders address critical issues such as: · Will the SBC grow more unified around shared convictions and mission or will it fragment over secondary concerns and tertiary doctrinal differences? · Will the SBC be able to maintain a...

of the faith from following Christ, the argument ran as follows: if Jesus is the center, the measurement of following Christ is simply directional. Those facing toward Christ and moving toward him are followers, those facing away or moving away from Christ are not. On some levels this is helpful, especially when understanding the nature of discipleship. If Jesus is the center, then we should be, as Scripture encourages, fixing “our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith.”5 Believers