BBFI President Yokes Up with SBC

Jerome · Feb 16, 2017

https://brnow.org/News/February-2017/Independent-church-aligns-with-Missouri-Baptists-S

a historically independent church whose pastor serves as president of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) [has] become a cooperating church with the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention
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His desire to lead High Street Baptist into cooperation with the Missouri and Southern Baptist conventions was built upon this early experience of partnership with Southern Baptist families on the mission field.
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Both Lyons and his wife Cindy grew up as children of missionaries in the Philippines....“My friends were Southern Baptist missionary kids,” he said. “I always felt like I, personally, had an affinity toward Southern Baptists.”
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“When the Southern Baptist Convention overall took their conservative move, it was very clear that there was no difference between us,” he said.
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Jerome · Feb 16, 2017

I suspected something like this was in the works when SBC President Ronnie Floyd popped up as featured speaker at the May 2015 National Fellowship Meeting:

https://www.bbfi.org/events/2015/5/4/may-national-fellowship-meeting

not long after he'd unveiled his "Recruit Existing Churches" stategy for reversing his denomination's sharp decline:

http://www.bpnews.net/44513/floyd-recruit-churches-to-sbcs-exciting-work

Recruiting existing churches to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention is among the components of convention president Ronnie Floyd's strategy
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One of three challenges Floyd issued to the SBC Executive Committee in a mid-February address was "to call forth other churches to come into our family
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"...What if we begin to call forth churches aggressively....There may be hundreds or even thousands of non-Southern Baptist churches in America, Floyd said
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(Subsequently, congregations pastored by church group leaders C.J. Mahaney (Sovereign Grace Ministries network) and James MacDonald (Harvest Bible Fellowship network) were announced as being 'now SBC' too)

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