SBC president urges prayer for awakening

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — Amid the nation’s turmoil is “an opportunity for a Great Awakening,” two leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) said in an open letter to Southern Baptists Oct. 20. At “one of the greatest leadership challenges in our history,” there is “plain and simply an opportunity for the church to go to its knees and seek the Lord for revival in our land,” wrote SBC President Johnny Hunt, pastor of the Atlanta-area First Baptist Church, Woodstock. Ed Litton, president of the SBC Pastor’s Conference and pastor of First Baptist Church, North Mobile, in Saraland, also signed the letter.

“We must do the one thing God requires of His people, which is to seek His face,” Hunt wrote. “Let me encourage pastors and leaders to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit in the particulars of how your church family chooses to do this. But let us all set aside time to seek His face and repent of our sins, believing God’s Word that He will again come and heal our land.”