SBC CONVENTION STORIES Anders Theme Interpretation -- 62 Baptist Runs Arch

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SBC CONVENTION STORIES
St. Louis 1980
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Anders Theme Interpretation 62 Election of First VP 100
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Baptist Runs Arch -3-2 Emergency Notification System 95
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Bates, Carl Address 72 Evangelism/Sun. School Sec. Meeting 116
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BFMF Flap 70 Evangelists Wrapup 28
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BP for June 11 81 Executive Committee 126
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BP for June 10 73 Executive Comm. Report, Part 1 108
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BP for June 10 75 Executive Committee Officers 30
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BP for June 11 - 79 Executive Comm./Stewardship Comm. Reports 105
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BP for June 8 78
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BP for June 9 76 Federal Pension Laws 57
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BP for June 12 80 First VP Nominations 89
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BP for June 9 77 First Resolutions 106
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BPRA Awards 34 Foreign Mission Reception 29
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Brooks, Webster Feature -- 26 Foreign Mission/Serninary Reports 97
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Business, Miscellaneous 88 Former Presidents and Theme Interp. 47
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Fort Presentation 96
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Campus Ministers Monday 125 Four-month extension on tax 101
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Campus Ministers, Sunday 4 Freebies Feature 114
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Campus Ministers Wrapup 146
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Tuesday Opening Session 117 Golden Gate Alumni Meet 22
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Committee on Committees Changes 148
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Committee on Committees/Boards 13 Home Missionary Reception 27
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Convention Sermon 21 HMB/Sunday School Board Reports 49
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Correction 55
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Correction 60 Kaemmerling Resignation 46
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Correction 82 Kid's Eye View of the SBC 51
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Correction 83
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Correction 92 Latest Communication Advances 143
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Correction 113 Lindsell Press Conference 12
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Correction 124 Lottie Moon Feature 112
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Correction 147
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Cutlines 14 Martin, Dan Appointed News Editor 119
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Cutlines 20 Messengers disqualified 68
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Cutlines -- 56 Midwestern Seminary Luncheon -2-4
Cutlines 58 Miscellaneous Business Session 8
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Cutlines 74 Moon descendents feature 109
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Cutlines 93 Music Conf. Roundup- - 137
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Cutlines 98 Music Evangelists 18
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Cutlines 122 Music Conference, Sunday 7
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Cutlines 145 Music Conf., Monday am 130
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Directors of Missions Round-u-p 129 National Deacons' Rally 5
Disqualification, More on 71 New Agency Heads Feature -- 16
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Draper/Parterson Messages 39 Note to Editors and Reporters 52
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Olford Sermon 50
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Parks, Keith Speaks to W Monday Night 138
Pastors' Conf. Election -- 132
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Pastors' Conference, Sunday Night 43
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Pastorst Conf., Monday 135
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Pastors' Conf., Sunday Night 149
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Pastors' Conf. Roundup 139
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Pastors' Conf., Monday afternoon 127
Pastorst Wives' Conference -- 87
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Pastors' Conf., Final Session 141
Patterson/Draper Messages -- 39 SBC Day Camp - - 23
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Photo Caption 2 Second VP Election 25
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Photo Schedule 61 Second VP decries "Liberals" 41
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Presidential Nomination 91 Second VP Nonimations -- 15
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Press Kit Insert 53 Seminary Course Feature 103
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Putting A Convention Together -- 35 Smith Press Conference 19
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Smith, Bailey Bio Sketch 94
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Radio/TV, Brotherhood Reports 11 Smith, Sandra Interview -- 104
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Religious Education, Monday night -- 140 Southeastern Seminary Luncheon 36
Religious Education, Monday -- 134 Southern Seminary Luncheon -- 48
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Religious Education, Sunday -- 6 Southwestern Alunmi Luncheon 37
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Religious Education Roundup 136 Southwestern Trustees Meeting -- 31
search Fellowship -- 40 Speech Writer Feature -- 121
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solution from Editors -- 144 State Evangelists 3
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Resolutions, Thursday morning 66 Stewardship Comm./Executive Comm. Reports -- 105
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Resolutions, Thursday Afternoon 86
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Resolutions Rationale 64 Thursday Afternoon Agency Reports 65
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Resolutions/Misc. Business 102 Thursday Morning Reports 54
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Resolutions, Thursday afternoon 67 Thursday AM Theme 1nterp.-Drumwright 59
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Resolutions, First Report 9 Tuesday AM Miscellaneous Business 111
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Rogers, Joyce Feature 115 Tuesday Night Session 99
Rogers' Address -- 107 Tuesday Opening Session, Morris Chapman -- 117
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Round up for Wednesday AMS -- 118 Tuesday PM Theme Intrepretation 90
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Roundup for Monday AM 42
Roundup for Tuesday AMS -- 120 Update on Pension Legislation -- 63 I
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Roundup for Friday AMS 14
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Roundup for Wednesday AMS 110 Walsh Response 131
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Roundup for Thrusday PMS 33 Wednesday AM Theme Interpretation 17
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Roundup for Thursday AM 10 WMU, Monday morning 133
Roundup for Tuesday PMS -- 128 WMU Opening Session -- 1
Roundup for Monday PMS -- 38 fJMU Monday Afternoon -- 123
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WMU Change 45
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WKU Wrapup 142
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WMU Executive Board Meeting 84
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Wrap-up 69
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"That We May
Boldly Say"
WYU Opening Session
For Imediate Release
ST. LOUIS, June &The director of family and special moral concerns for the Southern
Baptist Christian Life Commission described as b1 ind seerssunday afternoon those who say
the famfly is doomed.
Harry H. Hollis Jr. of tashville replaced Varvard theologian Iiarvey Cox as the
feature speaker at the opening sessian of !!oman's I!issionay Union after Cox reportedly
suffered a serious back injury.
Follis, associate executive director of the Baptist social action agency, told a
crowd of about 15'70 in Kiel Audi toriur the faaily is not poino to die despite the
predictions of some writers.
"It will continue to survive because the family is a part of God's providence for
ordering human 1i fe," said t:oll is.
Then he rapped the "pied pipers of irrsr,oralit.y who trade marriage for adultery and
then seek to draw a1 1 of us into their misery."
He cautioned his listeners not to be seduceci by "talk show qurus who propose novel
a1 ternatives to the family as an attention-petting device in order to sell the1r latest
books."
IJoting that many families are i n serious trouble, Hollis said society is suffer-
ing from a "battered family syndrome."
He said th.e .c h.u rch is the best friend the family has in society because "the family
is God's idea part of his plan for enrichment of our lives."
Rollfs said churches are requlred to respond to the family as God's institution and
quoted 1 Timothy 5:8: "If any provide not for his own and speci.a"ll y for those of his
own house, he hath denied the faith and is yorse than an infidel
"It makes heretics of those who !*#rap tkemselves In doctrinal correctness and deny
their families," said Hollis.
Then, i n an apparent reference to the inerrancy controversy that grabbed head1i nes
at the last South~rnZ aptist Conventior! and threatens to be an issue this year, Wcllis
said, "It's not difficult to debate the Rible. I*fhat's touah is livinc the Pible."
Hollis said churches should help famflies in dealina wf th economic problems,
violence In society, problems at home and abroad and sex miseducation on television.
"Yhat television is doing to the family sometimes is a prime time crime."
Hollis recalled that nobody seemed to have time to "reach out to help a quiet youncster
from a troubled famfly in iiollls' hometown of itlev Orleans.
One day in Callas the same young man, Lee Harvey Osrald, assassinated the President
of the United States.
"Iff amilies i n his home town had reached out to Oswald," said Hot1 is, "~ulcii t have
chanqed the course of history?"
The women's organization was one of eipht Paptist croups meeting here in advance of the
Southern Eaptist Convention rlhich starts a three-day conference Tuesday at Cervantes Con-
vention Center.
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Photo Captjon 1
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PHOTO 1 Rogers and Family Highlight HMO Program Southsrn Baptist Convention President
Adrian Rogers (left), wife, Joyce (center), and daughter, Janice, were among four families
featured on the program of the '.!omen's Missionary Union annual meeting. Rogers i s pastor
of the Be1 levue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn. Janice attends Mid-South Bible College
in Memphis. Photo by Hark Sandlin.
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PHOTO 2 Life Changing Commitments 1500 women reglstercd for the national annual meetina
of the Yomen's Missionary Union, June 8-9 at Kiel Auditorium in St, Louis. The meeting,
which preceded the Southern Baptist Convention, featured the theme, Life Changing Commit- t::
ments. Pictured from left are, Evelyn Blount, assistant to Education Division Director,
!JtlU, and the Barron Family, son Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. James Earron, Mrs. Mozelle Pierson,
mother of Mrs. Barron, and daughter Angela. The Barrons serve as foreign missionaries
in Accra, Ghana, Nest Africa. Photo by Nark Sandlin.
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''That We May
Boldly Say"
State Evangelists
For Immediate Release
ST. LOUIS, June 9--The Association of State Evangelism Directors (Southern Baptist)
pledged their support to Bold Mission Thrust i n its first annual meeting Sunday niqht at
the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.
Leonard Sanderson of Alexandria, La., president of the 32-member group, said the
evangelists will give strong, aggressive leadership in their states to the plan to make
tho gospel avai I able to everyone i n the world by the year 2000.
The evangelists adopted the foll owing statement:
"Because of our unique position as evangelists and elected leaders in evangelism
in Southern Baptist life, we wish to make bold our convictions about the Southern Baptist
plan to get the gospel to every person in the wrld in the next 20 years.
"In addition to giving strong ;.aggressive .leadersh!p: to .Bold Mis$.ioas in our:,respec-
tive states, we agree to affirm C. 0. Hogue, our national leader in evangel ism, and assure
him of our support,
"We affirm each other in our desire to see people come to Christ in other states as
much as in our own. Ye affirm the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention with all
the boards and agencfes as they give leadership to Bold Mission Thrust and pledge our
willingness to go beyond the routine call of duty, first in regular intercessory prayer
for Bold Mission Thrust, and second, to offer our service in whatever strategy or plan
of action God leads us to."
The session included an address on "Bold Mission Is of God" by James H. Smith, execu-
tive diractor of the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission, Memphis.
By Roy Jennings--10:30 a.m. Monday
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"That We May
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Sunday Campus Hinis t ers
For Immediate Re1 ease
ST. LOUIS, June 8--All people everywhere deserve the right to food, because God places
value on every human life, social action speclalist James Dunn of Dallas told Southern Eaptist
Campus ministers Sunday at the opening session of their fourth annual meeting at Stouffer's
Riverfront Inn,
"The sacredness of 1 ife is basic," said Dunn, executive director of the Texas Baptist
Christian Life Comission. "God's love for a1 1 mankind is the starting place" for
eli min a tin g hunger.
"!4ore people are hungry today than ever before," Dunn reported. lie said that more than
half the world's hungry are children under five years of age, that 800 million people live in
"absolute poverty and that at least one-eighth of the world's population suffers
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"debil it ating malnutrition."
Dunn cited the Presidential Cormission on !brld Hunrer who said there were no physical
or natural reasons why a11 the men, women and cSildrer, in the world cannot have enough food
to eat.
"Starvation of humans clearly is a moral and ethical issue," Dunn said, "because its
solution 1 ies well within the capability of nations ?lorkin! alone and together."
Yet most Americans are powerless to rectify the situation because they are "massively
ignorant" fn renard to world hunoer, Ounn added.
"Of those questioned about foreion aid and respondinn neyatively to the very idea,
98 percent do not have the slightest idea what i s non heing spent or hol:! it is being spent,"
Dunn contended.
"Seventy percent of kericans prefer development assistance in favor of military aid,
and 80 percent of Americans favor maintaining our food aid level or increasing it," he added.
"The same bunch of folks.,,want us to spend more on the fiilitary, but do rare development
aid."
Besides political ignorance, Dunn sairi Americans contribute to world hunqer by practic-
in? theological immaturity. "A careful examination of our operating theology--not what re
say, but what we do--1s frightenin?," he claimed. "It is revealing to test what we think we
believe about God by the way we spend our time, money an:! energy."
He also said excessive arms spendinfr contributes to the hunger problem,
"Today, defense spendins of the United States alone exceeds the total annual income of
the pgorest billion people on earth," he said.
Ounn claimed poverty is a prime ele~enti n wrld hunger, notfnq that even iff ood was
made available, many people could not afford to buy it.
He also said tradition and political history at tires "reinforced class and ethnic
advantagesu which result i n hunfer for the disadvantaged.
Dunn noted that some people see the hunger problem as a race betveen food availability
and population growth. gut he explained that excessive papul ation arowth i s a syrrptom and a
result of poverty and powerlessness and should be handled aceordinaly.
Other factors he cited which increasa the problem are inequitable trade policies,
mishandled power of mu1 tinational coroorations, disparities of food distribution, abuse
and underuse of natural resobrces, worldwide government corruption and inefficiency and
economic overconsumption on the part of developed countrias.
But he laid the'problem at the feet of all Christians when he charged that world
hunger also is due to "ethical insensitivity.
"Because human society could, if it would, see that no child goes to bed hungry, our
failure to do so is morally outrageous," he said. "Our dedication to see that innocent
children eat is a basic test of our Christian ethic."
The campus ministers was one of seven Baptist uroups meetinq in advance of the
123rd Southern Baptist Convention which convenes Tuesday at Cervantes Convention Center.
By Narv Knox--9:26 a.m. I'londay
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"That We May
Boldly Say"
National Deacon's Rally
For Innnediate Release
ST. LOUIS, June &-!lore than 600 deacons from 17 states were exhorted Sunday to "prcach
Jesus" and be humble, ministering partners with pastors.
Mobile [fayor Lambert lalims, a deacon at Riverside Baptist Church there, received a
round of hearty amens at the first national deacons rally at Tower Grove Baptist Church
when he told the deacons, "Preach Jesus, deacon, preach Jesus."
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Noting that he had known some deacons "with backbones like cooked spaghetti Mims
challenged the deacons to have courage to "open your mouth and preach Jesus.
"If we leave out Jesus," he said of the deacon ministry, "lde might as no11 stay home.
A vfsSt without mentioning Jesus is nothing more than a social call ."
Mims, one of several speakers known to Southern Baptists because of contributions to
the development of deacon ministries, called on the deacons to be "more than managers of
material things," to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to be committed to ministering
with a "love that takes us beyond the four walls of the church to the multitudes who need
Christ."
Jesting that he had been "filled with the Holy Spirit and leaked down a fe!.! times,"
Mims told the men to let the Holy Spirit taks over their lives and warned, "Satan's out
there with his fiery little darts just waiting to puncture your balloon."
A, Morgan Brian Jr., New Orleans attorney and deacon at First Baptist Church there,
outlined how deacons and pastors should become partners in ministering.
"The more humble we are, the more dynamic our ministry will he. There has to be an
endearment if deacons and pastors are to minister and work toaether. !?!e have to be true
yokefellows."
Brian suggested that pastors and deacons should remember that they are called by God
to lead the rest of the church to minister, not do everything themselves.
"The balance of the church is not to be spectators watching the deacons and pastor
perform ministry. The goal should be for every barn again believer to be a mjnister."
"Our real value is when we can help a person with his spiritual problems, Physical,
economic, emotional problems a1 1 are easier to handle when you've taken care of the
spf ritual problems first."
Brien urged the deacons to learn to know the condition of the persons to whom they
minister and develop a personal involvement in the lives of church members and to save
some of their energies for strengthening their pastors.
Deacons strengthening their pastors was the theme of another rally speaker. Charles
Chandler, pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, Urbana, Ill., reminded the
deacons that everybody needs ministering to, even the pastor's family.
Robert Naylor, whose book, The Ba tist Deacon, was called a high watermark in the
energins deacon ministry, r e m i n d ~ t h o - t they are "aluayr on God's active
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deacon body. Serve gladly and freely said Faylor, retired president of Southwestern
Baptist Theologi cal Seminary, Fort Yorth.
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Howard Foshee, author of the book, The kiinistry of the Deacon, and director of the
Christian Development Division of the ?amst Sunday School !Jashvill e, called
deacons and pastors partners in ministry and told the deacons to be enablers.
Russell Tuck, deacon at Kirkwood aaptist Church in Kirkrood, ik., and his wDfe shared
how they considered the deacon ministry a family ministry. Russell said he had seen
the deacon ministry in his church chanje from administration of the church programs
to a rnjnistry to the members.
Representatives of the pastoral ministries section of the Sunday School Soard, sponsor
of the rally, said they were pleased that the rally had accomplished its purpose of
celebrating what God i s doinn in c!iurches throuak the deacon ninistry and to inspire
deacons to greater service and ministry.
By i'fike Oavis--ll:40 p . ~ .S unday
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"That We May
Boldly Say"
Sunday Re1 igious Education
For Inimedi ate Re1 ease
ST. LOUIS. June &-It takes more than "great preaching and attractive music;' to grow
Southern gaptist churches, keener Pharr, director of the Education Division of the Florida
Captist Convention, Jacksonville, said here Sunday.
*".Ihether intentional or not, there is an increasinn number of pastors in our churches
trying to grow a church through great preaching and attractive music programs only,"
Pharr said.
"V!hile these are both essential functions ic a growins church; they will not alone
result in ?roving churches.
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Pharr keynoted the dpeniny session of the two-day 25th ~eetingo f the Religious Edu-
cation Association in the Sheraton St. Louis Hotel. The meeting precedes the 123ri
Southern Saptist Convention which opens a three-day run Tuesday in Cervantes Convention
Center.
The opening session also included a speech by Joe iiinkle, secretary of the Family
;!inistry Department of the daptist Sunday School 3oard, rlashville, and a look at the history
of Southern Saptist re1i gious education by a five- an panel.
In his speech Pharr called on Southern Baptist educators to rede?icatz themselves to
the role of the Sunday School i n ?rorliny churches.
He also encouraged educators to base future prograrrminq decisions on seven guide1 ines
which he described as the "foundations of our proqran of religious education during the
past quarter of a century ."
Pharr identified the guidelfnes as a comitment to the leadership of the Holy Spirit,
a cmmitinent to biblical priorities in the ministry, a conmitm-tt to the work of the local
church, a commitment to an all-age educational ministry, a cormitrnent to basic principles of
church prowth and development, a commitment to the role of the laity in Southern 3aptist
~vorka nd a comitment to a theolony of !h!ork.
Discussing "Christian Education: the Rere and I.lov in Fanily .:inistry ," tiinkl e said
the focus of the concern of Christian educators shoul5 be on "two basic institutions which
in fact determine the nature and quality of life withia society--nalnely, the church and
family.
"These two institutions so profoundly affect the quality of life now ani in the future
that I believe it i s worth giving our life's enercy to labor together with Christ in helpin2
both to become a1 1 they are meant to be :'
Eecause of his belief that the family and church should be focal points of interest for
educators, Hinkle said he 5s "absolutely unwilling to settle for survival strategies for
church and fatnily.
"Ia m committed with mili tant, unrniticated ,audacity to lead Southern Baptists to
strengt'ien and enrich the total Christian experience i n family and church 1i fe."