Posted on 06/07/2007 7:05:06 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
DALLAS (ABP) -- Rick Warren, heralded as “America’s new people’s pastor,” will speak Oct. 29 at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting. David Coffey, president of the Baptist World Alliance, will also speak at the meeting in Amarillo, Texas.
Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, will speak about his PEACE plan, an effort for churches to lead the way in eliminating social ills like illiteracy, poverty and AIDS. His sermon will be the centerpiece of the meeting, themed “Missions -- Together We Can Do More.”
Charles Wade, executive director of the BGCT, said Warren’s plan is “very similar to the concerns of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and its cooperating churches” for needy people in the world.
“Rick has caught the attention of people around the world with his vision of what local churches can do to make a genuine difference in solving the giant problems facing humanity,” Wade said.
Warren has been called one of the most influential pastors in America by The Economist. Time magazine called him “America’s new people’s pastor” and named him among the top 25 most influential evangelicals in America.
The Purpose-Driven Life has sold more than 20 million copies. Warren started Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., with one family in 1980. It now serves 22,000 people each week.
Coffey was elected in 2005 to lead the Baptist World Alliance, composed of more than 200 national and regional conventions worldwide. He is the former general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
More than 5,600 congregations including 2.3 million people are affiliated with the Texas convention, making it the largest Baptist state convention in the country.
Note the new marketing slogan.
For those that don’t know, the BGCT is the group of liberal Southern Baptists in Texas. The conservative churches are affiliated with the SBoT - Southern Baptists of Texas. (It is my understanding that some churches do affiliate with both.)
Members:
AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE USA
BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA
BAPTIST GENERAL CONFERENCE
BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF MISSOURI
BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF TEXAS
COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP
CZECHOSLOVAK BAPT CONV OF USA
GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF GENERAL BAPTISTS
LOTT CAREY BAPT FOREIGN MISS CONV, USA
NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION OF AMERICA
NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, USA, INC.
NATIONAL MISSIONARY BAPT CONV OF AMERICA
NORTH AMERICAN BAPTIST CONFERENCE
PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONV, INC.
RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN EVANG BAPT U, USA, INC
SEVENTH DAY BAPT GENERAL CONF, USA
UNION OF LATVIAN BAPTISTS IN AMERICA
Not sure about all of them, but their are some Liberal (read Social Gospel) groups on this list....
UNION OF LATVIAN BAPTISTS IN AMERICA??
I wonder if they have cool hats?
YBPDLNPL Ping
America’s pastor? When did I join his church!?!
Since I'm local church only, he's not MY pastor....
America's pastor.... Ptuh!
Drinking and swimming rivers don't mix.
What about driving into rivers?
I thought of him as a religious version of Walter Duranty when he went to Syria.
He’s not MY pastor!
Yet I will pray for him all the same.
Ah jes luv him, he’s re-al good.
That looks more like “The Orca Driven Life.”
Are they out of their minds?
PHONY ALERT
It’s not very catchy.
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