Jerry Vines Blog
A few nights ago I was privileged to speak at the Georgia Baptist Evangelism Conference. I always enjoy such conferences. I got to hear some good preaching, godly heart music and fellowship with godly pastors, both new and old friends.
It brought back to my mind the first time I ever spoke at an Evangelism conference. I had just become the pastor of Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. I was 33-years old and didn’t have a clue what I was doing in a big church! I was...
Broadman and Holman has posted an interview with Dr. David Allen and Dr. Steve Lemke about the upcoming book, Whosoever Will.
This book arose from the John 3:16 Conference back in November of 2008.
For a CD set of this conference, click here.
For a DVD set of this...
I was elected president of the SBC in 1988. Some half-jokingly said I was the first independent Baptist in history elected president! Actually, all my roots are in Southern Baptist life. I was saved, called to preach, educated, and served in only Southern Baptist churches.
In the earlier years several of us were so concerned about liberalism in the SBC we thought we might indeed become independents. Adrian Rogers and I talked about it frequently. Of course, you know the...
We have just created a YouTube channel for current and future videos.
You can access the channel right here. The channel address is: http://www.youtube.com/JerryVinesMin
In the future we will be adding videos to this channel as well as this blog.
This first video is a recent discussion between Jerry Vines and Charles Stanley. They are...
It has taken me a few weeks to get to this wrap-up of the SBC annual meeting. I'm finishing up some messages for the "Left" series I'm doing at First Baptist Woodstock, editing some Sunday School lessons in our new Vines By the Book curriculum, and trying to get ready to leave for Alaska. So, I'm a busy guy.
As I look back at the annual meeting I think it may well go down as the...
For over thirty years I read at least one sermon by Charles Spurgeon every week.
What a preacher!
We Baptists can justly be proud he wore the name Baptist unashamedly. His remarkable ministry, starting at a very early age, is well known.
One of my favorite books is his "Lectures To My Students." In it he makes reference to a statement by King David recorded in II Samuel 10:5: "Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return." He rightly...
So croons country singer, Ronnie Milsap.
In many ways spiritually I'm a child of the fifties. I am fully prepared for a number of reminders at the SBC that we "can't go back to the fifties." I'm sure we can't. Time moves forward, not backward. The methodologies of doing church, like technology, have moved far past those years.
But, it wasn't all bad.
If you have never listened to an automobile 8-track, you ain't lived. But, do we ever have the technology to do...
In the interest of full disclosure, I must make a few confessions. I have actually presided over some boring SBC meeting sessions (although I presided over some humdingers as well!).
I have sat through a lot of boring meetings. I have dodged some boring ones and attended the "real convention" (the bookstore exhibit). I have even tried to liven up some
Saturday (5-23) I agreed to allow my name to be added to the Great Commission Resurgence document "with caveats." I did this for two reasons.
First, I want to affirm my trust in the intentions of our president, Dr. Johnny Hunt, and Dr. Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. I join them in a desire that the Southern Baptist Convention have a resurgence of winning people to Christ. As a past president of the Convention, a member of the Peace...
I don’t remember my earliest trips to church. My earliest recollection of church attendance was to Tabernacle Baptist Church in Carrollton, Georgia. It was there I was taken to pre-school, grew up in Sunday School and came to Christ at the age of nine.
My home church was organized in 1899. The auditorium where I worshiped was built in 1914. The building seated 1400 people. Doesn’t sound too impressive in these days of mega-auditoriums. But, in 1914 the population of my...
