Several blogs have kindly picked up and linked to my article, “An Outsider Look at Unregenerate Church Membership” posted last week. In that post I mentioned the reference to a church in Mississippi that wanted to have a conference on church discipline, only later having to cancel because none of the 700+ invited pastors signed up.
If you have three minutes, let me encourage you to go here, scroll down to Sunday night, September 16, 2007, and watch/listen beginning at the 18:00 mark. Pastor Jeff Noblit, along with Voddie Baucham (among others, went to Zambia to minister in the churches under the direction of Conrad Mbewe. Many of you may remember that Conrad spoke at this year’s True Church Conference which I had the joy of live-blogging. What you will hear in Noblit’s report was the hunger and passion these Zambian pastors have for the local church, especially the purity of the church, which is starkly contrasted to the current state of SBC. So we have heard from Kenyan pastors and now Zambian pastors. When we will we hear from Southern Baptist pastors in the United States?
That’s Africa. In the US … did you read this last month’s Christianity Today? It had an article about how the future of evangelism is in “church building” — but they seem content to let existing churches mold.