Yesterday was a day of travel-not much interesting to report. Justin and I flew in to Louisville on different flights. It was fun introducing him to the Cracker Barrel. His life will never be the same. We picked up Pastor Stephen Jones (his flight came in after ours). Fun stuff, huh. Travel.
You can visit the convention web-site for the aftermath from the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor’s Conference.
However, Justin and I did have the opportunity to attend the 9Marks at 9 session this evening. 9Marks is the ministry headed up by Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
Dever opened the meeting (after 9:30 p.m.) and three decisions crucial for the church to make if it is to thrive:
1: We need to decide if we are going with the spirit of the age and treat the church as if it has ADD or put everything on expositional preaching. God’s word has always made God’s people not vice versa.
2: We need to decide to recover the corporate nature of the church and resist the rampant individualism that is defining modern Christianity.
3: We need to decide to grow our church either by seeing the customer as king or pursue true spiritual growth.
We pursue spiritual growth through 3 accountabilities:
a. Accountability to each other: expressed through membership.
b. Accountability to our elders – Hebrews 13:17
c. Accountability of the pastor to God – Hebrews 13:17
Great stuff.
In reality, the Convention has not yet begun. It officially kicks off tomorrow morning. Here’s a brief look at our schedule today:
6:30 a.m. – Founders’ breakfast – Danny Akin
8:00 a.m. – Convention begins
12:30 p.m. – Baptist 21 lunch – on the future of the SBC
2:00 p.m. – Convention continues
5:00 p.m. – We will help at the 9Marks booth in the Convention exhibit hall.
7:00 p.m. – Convention continues
8:00 p.m. – We will help 9Marks set up for the 9Marks at 9 session.
9:00 p.m. – 9Marks at 9
