Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention president, revealing that one of his focuses will be on racial and cultural diversity.
“We bleed missions. We bleed evangelism, and we bleed the Gospel of Jesus Christ … J.D. Greear will give us the opportunity to impact another generation while continuing to honor the former generation of Southern Baptists,” Florida pastor Ken Whitten of Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz told Baptist Press.
Greear is to be nominated at the SBC annual meeting in June in Dallas, with the 44-year-old megachurch pastor aiming to take up the role two years after withdrawing from the race in a closely contested election with current president Steve Gaines.
The main issue in that race was a debate between Calvinists and non-Calvinists over the decline in SBC baptisms. The non-Calvinists, represented by Gaines, were concerned that Reformed theology deemphasized evangelism. Greear represented the Calvinists. In a Christian Post interview at the…
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