http://morrischapman.com Dr. Morris Chapman's Articles http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=93 No one could be more blessed. No one could have been more surprised to travel the journey which I have traveled these last 20 years, and I am grateful to God and grateful to you. I love Southern Baptists. I have been a Southern Baptist all my life, even though I waited until 7 to be saved, and I love you and I love Southern Baptists. 6/15/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=93 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=91 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A list of alternate recommendations to those of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force have been released by Morris H. Chapman, president of the SBC Executive Committee. 6/4/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=91 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=92 An open letter to Southern Baptists has been released by Morris H. Chapman, president of the SBC Executive Committee, regarding issues to be decided at the convention's June 15-16 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. 6/4/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=92 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=90 To my knowledge, the release of the Final Report of the Great Commission Task Force is a first. There has been no previous committee of the Southern Baptist Convention that has brought a report to Convention that has so challenged the fragile nature of the cooperative relationships that make up the fabric of the Convention as this Report. I have continued to analyze it for what it actually says. In my years of service to Southern Baptists, I have not seen anything framed more appealingly that has such potential to damage our cooperative work than this document. 6/3/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=90 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=89 The Great Commission Task Force (GCTF) has recommended gutting the SBC Executive Committee (EC) by taking away $2 million of its budget! This amount is 30 percent of the receipts allocated by the Southern Baptist Convention to the EC through the Cooperative Program (CP) Allocation Budget. The GCTF chose to use a term that appears in the SBC CP Allocation Budget, namely "Facilitating Ministries." Lest anyone be confused, let me clarify that this is a reference to the SBC Operating Budget and the Executive Committee budget, a fact that the GCTF does not clarify in its Final Report. Whatever you call it, this budget is administered by the Executive Committee and this drastic cut of $2 million will force the EC to slash ministries that have been very successful. 6/2/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=89 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=88 The Final Report of the Great Commission Task Force (GCTF) was released on May 3, 2010. It contains a Component called “Celebrating and Empowering Great Commission Giving” (Component Three). The GCTF plans to recommend to the 2010 Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Florida, June 15-16, a new category of giving for Southern Baptists to celebrate what the task force calls “Great Commission Giving” (GCG). It will encompass “the total of all monies channeled through the causes of the Southern Baptist Convention, the state conventions, and associations” (Final Report, p. 8). 5/7/2010 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=88 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=83 During my second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the chairman of the Presidential Search Committee of the Executive Committee (EC) asked if I were willing to be interviewed by the committee. After several meetings with me and thorough research into my life, ministry, and skills, the committee subsequently recommended me to the Executive Committee. I will be forever grateful to the members of the search committee for their faith in me and for the years of encouragement they have given me since that time. The members were Julian Motley, NC, chairman; Stan Coffey, TX; Doyle Collins, OR; Ronnie Floyd, AR; Gwyna Parker, TX; Guy Sanders, FL; Simon Tsoi, AZ; Joe Warwick, TN; Fred Wolfe, AL; David Hankins, LA, ex officio. 9/21/2009 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=83 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=73 Indianapolis, IN, June 10, 2008 – As Southern Baptists, we have much for which to be thankful. Our pastors preach the Word of God with power. Our churches witness effectively to the unsaved in cities and communities throughout the country. God continues to call many of our young people to the mission fields of the world; a new strategy for evangelizing the United States has been launched. Our seminaries excel in teaching new theologians and training new pastors. Our moral and religious liberty convictions are well represented in the public square. Our publications are some of the finest Bible study materials in the world. 6/10/2008 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=73 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=72 I recently gave a statement to SBCoutpost.com, a web site upon which a small group of young Southern Baptist bloggers regularly contribute their opinions about a number of issues in the Southern Baptist Convention. Almost immediately thereafter, my statement was removed because the predicate upon which I offered it (a more-Christlike tone in the exchange of ideas) was not satisfied. I was careful to assure that my comments were removed, and having done so, considered the matter closed. 8/30/2007 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=72 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=61 WASHINGTON (BP)--Prayer was the topic of conversation when the president of the Southern Baptist Convention met with the president of the United States Oct. 11. 10/12/2006 http://www.morrischapman.com/article.asp?id=61