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Pastor Rick Warren Challenges that The Southern Baptist Convention is at a Crossroads

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pastor Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church, best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life and Coordinator of the global Finishing the Task coalition, today announced the launch of a four-part video series addressing the unprecedented decline of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). "SBC at the Crossroads" begins its staggered release today with, Part 1: "Denial or Revival?"

Key Points: 
  • "SBC at the Crossroads" begins its staggered release today with, Part 1: "Denial or Revival?"
  • This isn't a glitch or the result of a pandemic; it's a trajectory we've been on for a while.
  • I have Southern Baptist pastors on both sides of my family going back four generations.
  • Pastor Warren is scheduled to give a 3-minute appeal to SBC messengers from the Convention floor at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans on the afternoon of June 13, 2023.