J.D. Greear has big intentions as he begins his presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention. He hopes to help the denomination step away from partisan politics and lean more on its bedrock mission of preaching the gospel and saving souls.
The first Generation X president of the nation's largest Protestant body said he wants to focus more on what Southern Baptists embrace than what divides them.
“We have a lot of variety in our ranks when it comes to ethnicity and when it comes even to politics and age,” Greear, 45, told Religion News Service in an early July interview. “But what we're unified around is gospel, gospel doctrine and gospel mission.”
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