Why You Should Participate in This and Every Year’s Southern Baptist Convention

Business meetings may not be glamorous, but they're the hard work of stewardship demanded of every believer. Plus, the preaching, singing, and fellowship is glorious.

by Rod D. Martin
May 26, 2017

This year’s Southern Baptist Convention is coming right up, June 11-14. As the Chairman of the Committee on Order of Business, I would like to personally invite you to attend.

It has been a special honor to serve you in this way. I am not a pastor: I’m not sure what part in the Body of Christ best represents pastors – hearts perhaps? heads? – but whatever part it is, I am something else: hopefully a brain cell or even an arm, hopefully not a colon or a toenail. But whatever it is, the Kingdom’s work takes all of us, and God has called all of us, to bring our unique gifts and divergent callings to His altar and His service.

Which is precisely why you should come.

Baptists have several distinctives, but none so unique as our polity and our Cooperative Program. Despite our adherence to the autonomy of the local church, Baptists have long believed that we are better together, pooling resources to do that which we could not do as well alone. In stewardship, we gath…