COLUMBIA, Mo. — Attendees elected Michael Olmsted of Springfield, Mo., moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland for the coming year during a luncheon business session March 15 at First
Evangelicals traditionally have referred to it as a “call to vocational or Christian ministry” or simply “the call.” What is it?
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Observers say there is an ongoing reconsideration of the morality of birth control among the SBC’s leading thinkers.
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Five Midwestern pastors find bivocational ministry both rewarding and a bit frustrating. Asked what they would share with a roomful of seminarians, they offered advice from their church and secular experiences.
Bivocational ministers live in two worlds — in part to support themselves and their families economically but also, at least for some, as a way to translate the world to the church and the church to the world.
Economic and other factors are driving a bivocational ministry trend. But bivos still juggle two jobs and family obligations.
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Mediation between the Missouri Baptist Convention and four formerly affiliated agencies has ended without a resolution. The primary issue — who would control those organizations — could not be settled.