A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is urging seminary students to focus not so much on statistics, but more on the heart and mission of the denomination.
Dr. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, delivered the challenge in an address at a conference last week on the campus of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. In his address -- titled "Southern Baptists, Evangelicals and the Future of Denominationalism" -- Mohler said that while it is widely known that younger Christians are not interested in preserving institutions, they will inherit the leadership of the SBC. He exhorted the future leaders to stay focused on the most important mission. "We're going to have to look at issues we have not conceived and reconsidered for generations and generations," he said. "But this is what the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is called to do. This is why we are here. We are not called simply to receive what has been handed to us in terms of structure and continue it because of brand loyalty. We have been called to be a church on mission -- and the mission before us is not the perpetuation of the SBC, but the call of the nations to exalt the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Mohler said young seminary students will soon help determine the focus and future of the church in America.
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