The Bullard Journal for May 31, 2019
“A Call to Action”: The best model of congregational multiplication is for churches to start churches rather than church planters to start churches. Why? This seems counterintuitive to the way a lot of church planting is currently done. It is! It was the model most used in denominational systems for many decades. Where it was […]
The Bullard Journal for May 30, 2019
“A Call to Prayer”: This evening beginning at 6:00 p.m. representations from 12 people groups who are immigrated to the USA, and also represent international students in our midst, will gather with about 12 leaders of CMBA churches and other Baptist leaders to have a holy conversation about how we can minister among these various […]
The Bullard Journal for May 29, 2019
“A Family Story”: One of the goals of CMBA is to tell the stories of our congregations and their leaders regarding their missional engagement. Within this goal is the desire to inspire others to similar action as God is calling them into areas of missional engagement. Earlier this year Ralphetta Davis, moderator of CMBA and […]
The Bullard Journal for May 28, 2019
“A Call to Prayer”: Pray for the open doors God has given CMBA this week. Would you join me in praying this week about various conversations that will take place that include the following: 1. Prayer for the future use of an historic church building where the congregation has ceased to gather for worship, discipleship, […]
The Bullard Journal for May 27, 2019
“A Call to Action”: What happens when congregations wait too late to consider radical transformation? Many things. Here are a few. 1. They drop below a critical mass of gifted leaders who can lead a radical transformation. 2. They also have too few workers who can carry out new and innovative strategies, partially because they […]
The Bullard Journal for May 26, 2019
“A Family Story”: Today St. Andrews Baptist Church will ordain Lisa Dempsey as a Baptist minister serving in a role as a chaplain – currently with PRISMA Health. The ordination council was held on Saturday with ten people serving on the ordination council. Lisa expressed a wonderful spirit of Christ, an obvious spiritual call to […]
Prayers For Pastors and Congregations–The Fourth Sunday of May 2019
A Prayer for Pastors: O Lord, this is an annual weekend of panic. We have several things we realize we must get done before people scatter for the summer. It will be hard to pull the full complement of leaders together after the next week or two. Staff and volunteers are hurrying about to get […]
The Bullard Journal for May 25, 2019
“A Family Story”: Last Sunday more than 100 leaders of Spring Valley Baptist Church gathered to hear a report entitled God’s Empowering Vision for Spring Valley Baptist Church: A Foundation. It is not a new strategy. It is not a new vision. It is the public beginning of a new spiritual and strategic journey for […]
The Bullard Journal for May 24, 2019
“A Call to Action”: Casey Williams, senior pastor, North Trenholm Baptist Church in Columbia presented some of the research this week from his doctoral on multi-ethnic mega churches in the USA South. His research shows that 86 percent of churches in the USA are mono-ethnic, and only 14 percent are multi-ethnic. “If your dinner table […]
The Bullard Journal for May 23, 2019
“An Answered Prayer”: During our Vision Day this week, First Impressions Cheerleader Mary Ann Sibley said “Parking cars is not parking cars. It is a ministry.” She then went on to tell a story about four men handling the parking of cars in a remote location for a suburban church. They noticed that a first-time […]