By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions In last month’s article, I listed five factors (below), that we routinely find to be true of most plateaued or declining churches. In this final article, I want to offer some concrete recommendations about how you can address any of the areas below in which you believe your [...]
By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions In part 1 of this article, I laid out the reality and challenges facing our churches in a post-Covid, post-Christian world. We said that: 1. Membership among our SBC Churches has been on an 18-year decline. 2. While baptisms have been declining since 1999/2000 for our SBC Churches, [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions I am always keenly aware that my mission as your Director of Missions is to help our pastors start well, pastor well, and finish well. Equally important is to help our churches accomplish their God-given mission and to bring our BR-KC churches together in partnership to plant new churches [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In part 1 of this article, I will take an honest look at the health and troubling trends of membership and giving in the SBC and among our churches. In part 2, I will further describe some of the societal and spiritual reasons for the decline of our faith [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions, [email protected] If I took a survey and asked all of you if you consider yourself more emotionally and spiritually healthy than you were 10 years ago, if you were completely honest, what would you say? A few folks we know seem to have an unswerving faith, an inner fortitude [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions I will add my voice and words to the vast array of commentary you’ve probably already seen and heard concerning Charlie Kirk’s assassination and martyrdom on a college campus in Utah. Charlie was only 31 years old and leaves behind his beautiful wife of four years and two young [...]
By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions Early in my ministry, I attended the annual Missouri Baptist Evangelism Conference. One of the featured speakers was a pastor from South County, St. Louis named Phillip Hunter. Phillip’s church had experienced more than 200 baptisms in the prior year, and the majority of those baptisms were new [...]
As I write this article it is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I believe from several years of lived experience that, as believers and the church, we live wiser, more meaningful lives when we have a firm grasp of history and a proper interpretation of the people and events that came before us. Whether we [...]
Twelve years ago, God called us to serve at Beverly Hills Baptist Church (now The Church at Three Trails) in Independence, a church in our association that was near death. I will be honest, when God called us, it was an obvious call and yet there was hesitancy and worry about our future. After all, [...]
By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions One of the characteristics of our Association that I derive the greatest joy from is how diverse we are. We partner and serve alongside churches from every continent on the globe. The beautiful truth about Christmas that rings out each year is that Jesus was born as a [...]
