Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. provides “the kind of visionary leader Southern Baptists need to communicate a missional conservatism and biblical clarity to the world,” stated Robert Jeffress, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas in announcing his intention to nominate the 47-year-old Mohler for Southern Baptist Convention president in June.
DALLAS (BP) – Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. provides “the kind of visionary leader Southern Baptists need to communicate a missional conservatism and biblical clarity to the world,” stated Robert Jeffress, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas in announcing his intention to nominate the 47-year-old Mohler for Southern Baptist Convention president in June.
In a news release provided to the Southern Baptist TEXAN Jan. 2, Jeffress said his decision is the result of prayer and concern for the future of Southern Baptists’ global witness.
He said he believes Mohler would “motivate Southern Baptists to unite around cooperation for global missions and evangelism.”
If elected on June 10 when messengers meet in Indianapolis, Mohler would become the seventh seminary president to serve in the top denominational office.
Mohler and his wife, Mary, have two children, Katie, a freshman at Union University, and Christopher, 15. He is a member of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville where he serves as a teaching pastor and Sunday School teacher.
The most recent information available, Southern Baptists’ 2006 Annual Church Profile Survey lists 174 baptisms and primary worship service attendance of 3,315 for Highview. The congregation gave $167,917, or 3.3 percent, through the Cooperative Program from total undesignated receipts of $5,082,133. According to the ACP, the church’s total mission expenditures were $726,184.
with no contributions reported for either the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions or Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. The church is dually affiliated with both the Kentucky Baptist Convention and State Convention of Baptists in Indiana, with campuses in four Louisville-area locations, one in Taylorsville, Ky., and one in Sellersburg, Ind.