Jerry Vines Blog
Last week I visited the grave and house of E. M. Bounds. Since I heard he was buried in Washington, Georgia, I have wanted to make that trip.
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...
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...
A few days ago I listened to a message I preached in 1964 (yes, they did have tape recording in the dark ages!). I don’t advise it. Now I know why I developed major voice problems. Remember, I was only 26. And, I was preaching at a place where you had to take your coat off, sweat like a horse, unloose your tie, preach on about two inches of your shirttail and get so hoarse you could hardly talk before it was considered preaching.
I sounded like a machine gun with the...
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...
My church going started at Beulah Baptist Church, as a five-week-old. But, my church became Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carrollton, Georgia, where I was saved and baptized at the age of nine.
The full name of the church was Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church. That was to distinguish it from two other kinds of Baptist churches. Primitive Baptists didn't believe in Sunday School, an educated ministry and its foundational position was that of Calvinism. They didn't believe in...
I was born at an early age. I was born at home because I wanted to be close to my mother. I was so surprised at my surroundings it was almost a year before I said a word. And I was born in Beulah land. I was born in Carroll County, Georgia in 1937, just outside of Carrollton, Georgia.
It was on the old Bremen Road, in the Beulah Baptist Church community. Beulah Baptist was the home church of my father, Clarence Vines. He and my mom took me there when I was five-weeks old. I was never...
I’m sure you’ve heard it: “I’m Baptist born and Baptist bred and when I die I’ll be Baptist dead.” Well, that’s kind of my story.
I was born to Baptist parents. Both sides of the family were Baptists. My grandfather Vines was a sharecropper. My grandfather Johnson was a business man and a country evangelist. He was a rarity in his day. He had a college education.
I understand, of course, that being Baptist born doesn’t mean you...
