wenty-four Southern Baptists from a broad cross-section of the denomination comprise the new North American Great Commission Task Force set to meet for the first time on Tuesday, June 23, prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Twenty-four Southern Baptists from a broad cross-section of the denomination comprise the new North American Great Commission Task Force set to meet for the first time on Tuesday, June 23, prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.
Commissioned by North American Mission Board President Geoff Hammond, the task force is designed to dovetail with the Great Commission Resurgence declaration issued by SBC President Johnny Hunt, who will be kept apprised of the group’s progress. To date, more than 3,700 Baptists have signed Hunt’s call for a return to the Great Commission.
“The North American Mission Board joins with our SBC president in this focus and takes this call seriously,” Hammond said. “NAMB is called and is in the unique position to mobilize this convention in a Great Commission resurgence.”
David Hankins, executive director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, and Fred Luter Jr., pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, are among the 24 selected.
NAMB senior associate Steve Reid in Alpharetta, Ga., and Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research in Nashville, to co-facilitate the task force.
“The essence of the task force will be to look at SBC activities and actions from both a biblical and missiological standpoint,” Reid said. “Everybody will be coming together to take a fresh look at how Southern Baptists should look at the Great Commission in times such as these.”
Reid said the task force represents people across Southern Baptist life and leadership. “We were very intentional in putting this diverse group of folks together.”
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