Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice

from a reformed Baptist perspective, I'm Joe Thorn.

I am the preaching pastor, the lead pastor as the title I have at Redeemer Fellowship

in St. Charles, Illinois, and if you are a regular listener, you are probably expecting

a regular episode.

But this week, Jimmy and I are at the annual Southern Baptist Convention, it's meeting

in Anaheim, California, and it's going to be a doozy.

So the content this week will be a little different or sporadic, but for our all-access

members, you will receive weekday wisdom and there is a banter of truth dropping.

But I'm not sure if we will have a Thursday episode or not for everyone, and today it's

just a little announcement.

If you want to follow us on social media, you'll see what we're doing, what we're hanging

out, and if you're there and you want to meet up, there might be a chance for that.

But what's going on at the SPC this year?

Well, it's a normal SPC in many ways, but there are three things that are on our hearts

as we're entering into this two-day event.

One is we will be voting on a new president, Southern Baptist Convention President.

We have three candidates that are up, and we've talked a little bit about this, but from

my perspective, we really have two that are likely to get most of the votes, and that is

Bart Barber and Tom Askell.

Now if I'm going to make a prediction as to which of these pastors who are well-known

in the convention, though they don't pastor mega churches, they pastor mid-sized churches,

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