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One Sacred Effort: The Cooperative Program of Southern Baptists is unavailable, but you can change that!

The preamble of the original constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention describes the purpose of the SBC as “eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the whole denomination in one sacred effort, for the propagation of the Gospel.” These words are not only historically significant; they convey the mission and purpose and distill the distinct facets of the Cooperative Program. One...

The Committee recommended: That the SBC Funding Study Committee, in conjunction with the Task Force on Cooperation, enlist and engage pastors across the Convention in creating a pastor-led strategy for re-invigorating stewardship and the Cooperative Program in the churches.14 The rationale behind the preceding motion is that Southern Baptists have woefully neglected this subject, resulting in widespread ignorance about and emphasis on the wonderful opportunity Southern Baptists have to reach the
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