Dr. Laura Levens, Associate Professor of Christian Mission at BSK, wrote an article for Word & Way in which she observed a renewed energy “from the crowd” at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s General Assembly a few weeks ago. An excerpt from Dr. Levens’ article can be found below. To read the article in full, click here.
“The United States as a whole is more active in ways not seen since before the pandemic, and it is reasonable to suppose that CBF has absorbed some of the larger cultural energy. In no way does this suggest that COVID pandemic concerns are over or that energy has returned to every quarter, but I spoke with several church leaders who reported a renewed energy for activity within their congregations. People seem anxious to figure out the future and to get to work, and there is no guarantee that the energy levels seen now will continue into 2024. Perhaps the larger CBF theme of “Holy Ambition” crafted by the leadership was in response to our present cultural moment of energetic activity in search of renewed purpose.”
