Resurgence

I like that word-resurgence.
At the Southern Baptist Convention we are discussing and voting on something called the GCR- Great Commission Resurgence. God has blessed the SBC for many decades as thousands of missionaries have been sent, millions have been saved and followers of Christ have been discipled. But any net that has been fishing for as long as the SBC has is bound to gather a lot of unnecessary debris and weight. Every net to be effective needs to be cleaned, not from wrong things necessarily, but from extra things that slow it down and keep it from being effective.
For several years, thousands of us pastors, leaders and members have sensed the need to wash the net and focus the attention of our agencies, institutions and seminaries on the main thing-
the Great Commission. It will mean changes needs to be made from the local churches all the way down to the denominational entities. It will mean we must become radical, transformational, sacrificial if we are going to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth.
In 1979, I was in Houston to vote for what is now called in history, the Conservative Resurgence, when Southern Baptist reclaimed our denomination from liberalism. For the past 31 years we have attended Conventions and voted for Biblical, conservative moral values.
At this Convention, Tebra and I will represent Englewood Baptist Church as messengers and vote in favor of the Great Commission Resurgence.
I know for the largest evangelical denomination on earth to change, it will take more than voting, sermons, and resolutions. It will take a resurgence.
I looked this term up in the dictionary and it means-a revival. That's the only thing that will radically change our lives, our churches and our denomination. "Lord, send a revival, and let in begin in my chalk circle."

For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “ I dwell in the high and holy place,With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Isaiah 57:15