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The gripping story of a pastor’s wife learning she was spiritually lost is making headlines, but a Christian apologist points out one of history’s greatest evangelists once warned the Church about who is sitting in the pews on Sunday mornings.
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Jimmy Pritchard, former president of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and a leader of the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. | First Baptist Church of Forney
A Southern Baptist Convention pastor who helped advance the denomination s conservative resurgence has died at age 65 after battling COVID-19 and pneumonia.
Jimmy Pritchard, former president of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and pastor of First Baptist Church of Forney, Texas, died last week following a brief battle with the illnesses.
FBC Forney announced the death of Pritchard in a statement posted to their Facebook page on Feb. 24, noting that they brought the news “with great sadness.”
Ed Litton and Mike Stone
Albert Mohler has new competition in the race to become the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Two pastors, Ed Litton and Mike Stone, accepted upcoming nominations in the past week, each representing different emphases for the future of the SBC as the denomination grapples with an escalating debate over its approach to race.
Mohler has been in the running for over a year; the SBC canceled its previous election along with its 2020 annual meeting due to COVID-19.
Mohler is already a big name in the SBC. The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he’s currently the longest-serving entity head in the denomination and regularly weighs in on current issues on his daily podcast,