Great Commission Resurgence Task Force members have wrapped up three days of deliberations in advance of making a preliminary report on their findings in February.
At the meeting’s adjournment on Jan. 28, task force chairman Ronnie Floyd said the 23-member group will make a “progress report” to the SBC Executive Committee when it meets in Nashville Feb. 22–23, with the entire document to be released May 3.
Floyd, pastor of First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., said the task force “still has a lot of work to do between now and June but we want to take this opportunity to bring Southern Baptists along in our work.”
Floyd said the update will contain “several items, such as where we are at this point, how we see the final document shaping up, how our vision is coming together.” He declined to be more specific.
There will be another meeting or two of the work group as it coalesces around a definitive statement on the spiritual condition of Southern Baptists and suggestions for how the convention can be more effective, Floyd said.
The San Antonio meeting occurred three days before Southern Baptists were to set aside Jan. 31 as a day of prayer for the future of the convention and its missions outreach. Floyd did not specify how many other times the group may meet, but did say an unofficial timetable is to have the final document released by May 3 on its pray4gcr.com Web site.
“Southern Baptists will be able to go online and see for themselves what we believe” the future holds for the convention, Floyd said. “We will spend the month of May tweaking the document, if any tweaking is needed, before it is formally presented to messengers to the annual meeting in Orlando on June 15–16.” (BP)
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