Hey, it's John Harris. I want to talk to you about the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting coming up next week in Orlando, Florida.

If you are a messenger and a conservative,

there are some great opportunities this year, opportunities that I don't think have presented

themselves in a long time for conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention. And so I want to

give you a little bit of a lay of the land and help you understand some of the decisions you're

going to be making

next week. So first of all, let's talk about what's happened over the last 10 years in the

Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention has been undergoing what can only

be described as a decade of decline in various areas. And I really think this started more or less

with the Great Commission

resurgence in 2010. There were some good intentions with the Great Commission resurgence

about reaching North America, giving more money to missions, being more evangelistic. But what

inevitably happened is the Southern Baptist Convention has declined. It's declined in a myriad of

ways, not just theologically because of incursions from social justice thinking on the left,

but it's also had decline in the area of giving to cooperative program, which cooperative

program funds missions and those kinds of endeavors. There have been churches

leaving the Southern Baptist Convention over some of the decisions that have been made, especially

over the last few years, related to Me Too issues, and also controversies like the female

pastor controversy, controversies like critical race theory. And the Southern Baptist Convention has been

in a bad spot, especially since 2019. I think there's a possibility, an opportunity,

to actually roll some of that back this year, at least starting this year. In order to really

change the Southern Baptist Convention,

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