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Unity, cooperation pledge tops EC agenda
Posted on Jun 14, 2011 | by Mark Kelly PHOENIX (BP)--An affirmation of unity and cooperation among Southern Baptists and new ministry assignments for two Southern Baptist entities highlighted the SBC Executive Committee's agenda June 13 in Phoenix.
Pledging to "walk in unity as brothers and sisters in Christ," Southern Baptist entity heads, state executives and ethnic fellowship leaders signed an "Affirmation of Unity and Cooperation" pledge during the meeting.
The document, to be highlighted during the Executive Committee's June 14 report to the convention, includes five core "pledges" toward a spirit of unity. Executive Committee President Frank Page and Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright also signed it.
The document's five core pledges are:
-- "We pledge to maintain a relationship of mutual trust, behaving ourselves trustworthily before one another and trusting one another as brothers and sisters indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. (Ephesians 4:20-32; 2 Peter 1:3-8)
-- "We pledge to attribute the highest motives to those engaged in local church ministries and those engaged in denominational service in any level of Convention life -- motives that originate within hearts truly desiring to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we also serve. (1 Samuel 2:3; Matthew 7:1-5; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5.
-- "We pledge to affirm the value of cooperative ministry as the most effective and efficient means of reaching a lost world with the message of the Gospel. (Psalm 68:11; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Acts 9:31; 1 Corinthians 16:1-23)
-- "We pledge to embrace our brothers and sisters of every ethnicity, race, and language as equal partners in our collective ministries to engage all people groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 16:25-27; Revelation 7:9)
-- "We pledge to continue to honor and affirm proportional giving through the Cooperative Program as the most effective means of mobilizing our churches and extending our outreach as Southern Baptists, enabling us to work together to evangelize the lost people of our world locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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