Apr 27, 2018 | Archived Blogs, Blog, Terry Maples
By Terry Maples How might reading the Bible formationally empower transformation for Fellowship Baptist? I loved reading and teaching Scot McKnight’s book The Jesus Creed. The entire volume unpacks what is most important for Christ-followers, i.e. learning to love...
Apr 24, 2018 | Archived Blogs
How can Fellowship Baptists encourage congregational contexts in which members practice theological reflection capable of examining embedded theology? “All Christians are theologians…It’s a simple fact of Christian life: their faith makes them theologians” (How to...
Apr 19, 2018 | Archived Blogs
Forming Together By Terry Maples, CBF Virginia Field Coordinator If “forming together” is CBF’s Big Idea, how can congregations articulate how we seek to shape and form faith? As a long-time congregational educator, I love the “big idea” emerging from CBF’s branding...
Apr 18, 2018 | Archived Blogs
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Apr 10, 2018 | Blog, Terry Maples
INTRODUCTION I started seminary studies in June of 1980. Undercurrents and rumors of a “take-over” were already swirling by that time. In the next few years, rumors became reality. The Southern Baptist Convention slowly but surely abandoned its historical roots. In...
