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Justice department plans no action On EC abuse handling P. 3
IBSA NEWS
Streamlined event Board approves two-day Annual Meeting & Pastors Conference P. 5
Let’s get honest
Table Talk with Michael Nave P. 9
Mental health & your church
NATE ADAMS
It’s our turn Cooperative Program @ 100 P. 2
ERIC REED
Reporter’s Notebook Another Blackaby needed P. 6
SBC Executive Committee
All ayes for Iorg Seminary president takes top SBC post
Dallas, Texas | Jeff Iorg’s election as President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee March 21 came with sighs of relief across the Convention and in Illinois, where EC Trustee Adron Robinson had led the first attempts to find a captain for the listing denomination. “He’ll do a good job of restoring integrity to the Executive Committee,” said Robinson, a pastor in Chicagoland, after his return from the election in Dallas. “It was definitely one of those divine synchronicity moments,” he said, as “God worked on Jeff’s heart, so it all came together.” Iorg had declined consideration for the post three previous times and at 65 was headed to retirement in May after 20 years as president of Gateway Baptist Theological Seminary. Already known to many Southern P. 4
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APRIL 1, 2024
Vol. 118 No. 4
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Big hopes P. 11
New ministry for emerging emotional needs P. 7
SBC Pres. Barber to visit April 16 P. 3