Foreword, Russell D. Moore
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
A Never-Changing Witness in an Ever-Changing World: The Enduring Southern Baptist Mandate
Jason K. Allen
PART 1: SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND COOPERATION
1. How the Cooperative Program Empowers Churches to Gospel Ministry
Robert J. Matz & John Mark Yeats
2. By the Numbers: What SBC Demographics Tell Us About Our Past, Present, and Future
Thom S. Rainer
3. From Babylon Baptist to Baptists in Babylon: The SBC and the Broader Evangelical Community
Collin Hansen & Justin Taylor
4. The Future of Baptist State Conventions
Paul Chitwood & John L. Yeats
PART 2: SOUTHERN BAPTIST DOCTRINE AND DISTINCTIVES
5. Southern Baptists and the Quest for Theological Identity: Unavoidable Questions for the Twenty-First Century
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
6. Who Are Southern Baptists? Toward an Intergenerational Identity
David S. Dockery
7. More than Fifteen Million Southern Baptists? Recovering Regenerate Church Membership
John Mark Yeats
8. A Denomination Always for the Church: Ecclesiological Distinctives as a Basis for Confessional Cooperation
Jason G. Duesing
9. Steel-Toed Birkenstocks and Doctrine-Loving Christians: Southern Baptist Witness and Ethics in the New Sexual Age
Owen D. Strachan
PART 3: SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTRY AND MISSION
10. Kindling Afresh the Gift of God: Spiritual Renewal, Strategic Reinvention, and the SBC
Ronnie Floyd
11. The Future of the IMB and Our Collaborative Great Commission Work
David Platt
12. Every Church on a Mission: The North American Mission Board in the Twenty-First Century
Kevin Ezell
13. Training the Next Generation of Pastors, Ministers, and Missionaries: Southern Baptist Theological Education in the Twenty-First Century
Jason K. Allen
14. Preach the Word! Biblical Preaching and Congregational Renewal
Tony Merida
15. Every Kindred, Tongue, and Tribe? Ethnic Diversity in the SBC
Daniel L. Akin & Walter R. Strickland II
Conclusion
Jason K. Allen
Appendix A
Appendix B
Contributors
Name and Subject Index