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Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States drew critique at the first Republican presidential debate since Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
On average, 42 percent of worshippers at churches launched since 2008 previously never attended church or hadn't attended in many years, LifeWay Research reports in an analysis of 843 such churches from 17 denominations and church planting networks.
An entrepreneur with a fruitful career using business as a platform for the Gospel played a key role in a mission trip to Central Asia by nine students from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary this fall.
The men at Bethel Baptist Church in Greenfield, Tenn., reach out to the unchurched men in their community each autumn by showing off their culinary skills at a wild game supper, preparing turkey, deer, raccoon, crappie, catfish, rabbit, duck and other critters. It's only one outreach of the small church that promotes missions and gives 20 percent to the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program.
Researchers should define Evangelicals by their beliefs, not by their political demographics, the church they attend or what they self-identify as, the NEA and LifeWay Research have determined
Enlist others to pray for your witness in a hurting world to those who need Christ, ministry leader Mark Snowden advises. "Involving others -- even a dozen people or more -- in what God has called you to do blesses you and them too," he writes.
Illinois Baptist leader Nate Adams sets for "tangible actions that demonstrate we are trusting the Lord" as the International Mission Board draws down its overseas and stateside personnel in the face of a budget shortfall.
Wycliffe College has begun offering seminary training programs for Canada s indigenous population to help them adjust to seminary life
A Middle Tennessee Baptist association has voted to withdraw fellowship from a congregation that called a woman as pastor. At issue: the association's requirement that cooperating churches adhere to the Baptist Faith and Message.
The Episcopal Church continues to experience losses in both church attendance and membership, according to recently released numbers from the denomination s Office of the General Convention
