Southern Baptists should “look up, step up, stand up, wise up and gear up” for America’s cultural wars, according to outgoing Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Jack Graham.
“The moral issues of our time are still on the table,” Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, told messengers during his president’s address June 15 at the SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis.
“The priority for Southern Baptists is to fulfill the Great Commission,” Graham said. “Sharing Jesus is God’s agenda. Some say we should just share the gospel and shut up about the rest of this. …But if we don’t stand up, speak out and wise up on these issues, who will be left to deal with the issues of our times? If not us, Southern Baptists, then who? If not now, When?”
Southern Baptists are failing in America’s cultural war, Graham said, because they lack the power of God.
“We need preachers who are willing to stand up for truth, preach the truth and call sin by its name,” he said.
He also urged Southern Baptists to reach America’s great cities with the gospel of Jesus Christ by working through associations, state conventions and the North American Mission Board to adopt strategic cities and seek evangelistic opportunities.
“We must not relent. We must not retreat,” Graham said. “We must not give up an inch of God’s territory.”
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