Category: Cooperative Program

I believe in the Cooperative Program as the only means of fully cooperating as a united body in the Southern Baptist Convention. It has proven over and over that many autonomous

As a young Southern Baptist evolving out of a mainline denominational upbringing, I remember vividly being introduced to the “Southern Baptist way” while attending the University of Mobile and later New Orleans Baptist

I didn’t grow up in church. When I became active in a local Southern Baptist church as a young adult, I remember my pastor often referencing the Cooperative Program from the

My generation of pastors has been accused of worshipping the Cooperative Program by some of the younger generation of pastors that are upcoming. Of course, my answer to that remark

When I think of the Cooperative Program, it reminds me that, when I was a senior in high school in 1965, my youth pastor asked me to go to a

I believe there is evidence in the Scripture of the principles that make up our Cooperative Program. The Christians in Jerusalem were in dire straits. They were suffering persecution, and

I believe in the Cooperative Program because I believe in the Great Commission. While no human program is perfect, the Cooperative Program has for many decades proven itself to be