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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UPAH/NAYIUN Saturday, May 2,1998 Utaims Beiter Get Used to Baptist Doctrine THESALT LAKETRIBUNE The Southern Baptist Conven. tion was established in Augusta, @ Continued from A-1 Ga., in 1845, splitting off from Northern Baptists over the slavery issue and other questions of organization. for the Atlanta-based North American Mission Board (NAMB) The Home Mission Beard, set up te help Southern Baptist mis- of the Southern Baptist Conven- tion. “Each viewer will see the TV spots 6.3 times a week or hear the radio spots 7.6 times a week,” sionaries spread the Christian gospel, was launched With support from collection McBachin said. For the past ten years, such ex- plates across the nation, the Mission Board had varying success. Financial support for the Southern Baptist Convention declined during the Civil War, and after tensive media efforts have always accompanied the Southern Baptist Convention's yearly meeting, whichshifts from city to city. the war Confederate money was worthless, In the Reconstruction of the On the weekend before a con- vention, Southern Baptists spon- sor an évangelism campaign called Cross-Over, which beganin South, donations barely supported the board’s work. The offices Las Vegasin 1989. The name has a double meaning: the cross of Je- were moved to Atlanta and Isaac Tichenor took thereins. Tichenor set the Mission Board’s finances on a sound footing, as well as enlarging missions to American Indians, to Cuba, and sus and crossing overa city. It ineludes @oor-to-door canvassing by , Sports clinies in which Christian athletes share their ice, and block parties near Southern Baptist churches. “We are attempting to uplift Southern Baptist Convention Southern Baptist missionary, Brad Lartigue, leads a service for skiers and others at the top of a ski slope in Big Sky, Montana. the person of Christ,” said Phil Roberts, director of NAMB’s Interfaith Witness Evangelism. Last year in Dallas, more than 4,500 people accepted Jesus as their savior, Roberts said, adding aimed at inactive Mormons and non-Mormons,he said. or seminary student to preach. “Our goalis to makeit possible for every person to have a personal relationship with God,” Rob- emerge, he said. There are about a dozen church planters working erts said. “But we are not trying that this was not surprising given. that there are more than 250 Southern Baptist churches there. There are about 14,060 South- Southern Baptists do not mea- In the Southern Baptist Convention, all it takes to belong is an sure their success in numbers, said the Rev. Bob Reccord, NAMBpresident. Reccord and Roberts made a clear distinction hetween proselytizing and evangelism. Proselytizing, they said, is “More people are pre-registered for the conventionthis year than last year,” Roberts noted. “Mayheit’s because almost every- aimed at getting converts into a particular church or institution. Evangelism is preaching the Christian gospel for its own sake. “Weleave ihe results in God’s hands,” Reecerd said. Organizers do hope their efforts will encourage local churches and do some “church planting.” Church planting often begins with a small Bible group meeting in a home, possibly overseen by an existing church. As the group ws larger, someone might suggest that they worship together on Christ of Latter-day Saints “to read their Bible,” Roberts said. Sunday. The “mother church” might send a pastor or lay leader And missionary efforts are also Ali Baptist churches are auton- omous, but can choose to associate with a national denomination. million residents are members of the LDS Church, which proselytizes all over the world. The NAMBis expecting 2,00 to 3,000 volunteers, meine 1,000 students, for the Salt Lake City Cross-Over. one had a Mormon knock on their deer.” Organizers also sent 40.000 copies of the video “The Mormon Puzzle,” a Southern Baptist explanation of LDStheology,to pastors in the United States and Canada, selling and distributing another 10,900 The NAMBhopes to get some members of The Church of Jesus in Utah now. to get them all to join the Southern Baptist Conventions. Church membership is not essential to salvation.” ern Baptists in Utah, he said. About 70 percent of the state’s 2 Out of that a church would to the mountain regions, In 1997 three Southern Baptist agencies were combined — the HomeMission Board, the Broth- erhood C ission, and the Radio and Television Commission — formingthie North American Mis- sion Board (NAMB). “Southern Baptists are entering the 2ist century with morere- sources for evangelism than any peo) ple in the history of the Baptist state conventions, NAMB supports 5,000 missionaries in the of other religious traditions), chaplains, 82,000 volunteers (including 2,200 Mission Service Corps volunteers) and produces students, church evangelism (which emphasizes reaching fam- With an annual budget of $100 million and in partnership with 39 It is Mormonism’s unorthodox theology that leads Southern Bap- daily and weekly TV programs, including Family Network, with CONTAINER GARDENING Thousands of pots, planters and decorator items perfect for indoors orout,all sure to brighten your Mother's day. 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