Here are seven reasons why I think every Baptist should be making plans to attend the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta from Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2008:
1) The celebration will publicly demonstrate that Baptists are overcoming a history of racism by uniting large numbers of racially and ethnically diverse people together in fellowship and worship.
2) The celebrants will proclaim the whole gospel by addressing all the spiritual, psychological, physiological, and material needs of human beings.
3) The celebration will renew our spirits by creating opportunities to share spiritual gifts and callings, to learn of the work that other Baptists are doing to advance God’s kingdom, and to network and unite with them in mission action.
4) The celebrants will raise a prophetic voice by addressing some of the most egregious social, institutional, economic and civil injustices of our communities, our nation and our world.
5) The celebration will rekindle pride in our Baptist legacy as champions for liberty of conscience and religion for all and as advocates for separation of church and state.
6) The celebration will reclaim our Baptist heritage as witnesses to a humble, personal, conscientious, non-hierarchical, non-creedal, non-dogmatic faith in Christ.
7) If the celebration accomplishes as much as half of the above, you can be sure that it will be a meeting of considerable historical significance.
Note: This entry is cross-posted from the New Baptist Covenant Weblog.
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