Please read the following quote from an article on the Christian Post. In fact, here is the link:
Massive 'Lostness' Prompts So. Baptists to Step Up | Christianpost.com
I am not wanting to stir up anything, but the statement is a little troubling to me:
"This week, NAMB – the domestic mission agency of the Southern Baptist Convention – launched the National Evangelism Initiative, challenging the denomination to share the Gospel to every person in North America by the year 2020.
"Just like a GPS device gets people to their destinations, NAMB’s GPS will help Southern Baptists reach their destination, which is every believer sharing, every person hearing by 2020," Hammond said in his report.
The initiative is called God's Plan for Sharing and can be contextualized to any mission field. It encourages Southern Baptists to pray, engage in witnessing, sow the Gospel, and ultimately see a harvest of people responding to the Gospel. The evangelism effort is also compounded with a media campaign in which television, radio, print and Internet ads will tell millions who Southern Baptists are.
As Rankin stated, Southern Baptists are the people whom God has called to spread the Gospel around the world (Italics mine)."
Sooooo . . . . Southern Baptists are the only ones that God has called to evangelize? Hmmmmm . . . . . . .
I certainly want to be careful to not read too much into the statement, but at obvious glance, that is the message conveyed. Unfortunately, this sort of thing causes unnecessary divisiveness. . . . . . .