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The president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is calling the denomination to re-focus on the Great Commission.

During his presidential address earlier today to 7,100 messengers at the SBC's annual meeting in Louisville, Dr. Johnny Hunt cautioned Southern Baptist laypeople and pastors against being prideful and un-teachable.

"The Bible says God sets Himself against people of pride," Hunt stated. "It's one thing to pastor a church [and] to have someone in the audience who doesn't like you, [but] it's another to be standing behind that sacred desk -- and the very God that you're representing has opposed your ministry. Nothing could be more frightening.
 
"I just want to go on record saying: I flat need Jesus."
 
The SBC leader said his call for a Great Commission Resurgence must start with the local church and a renewed commitment to give and evangelize. And that, he said, would mean more resources for the Cooperative Program (CP), the denomination's partnership of missions support.
 
"If we commit greater amounts to reaching the nations, church planting in America, and intentional evangelism in this nation in which we live, the CP will rise in such a way that we will think it was a Cooperative Program Resurgence instead of a Great Commission Resurgence," said Hunt. "We do not have a money problem -- we have a vision problem."
 
Southern Baptists are not looking for a program to follow, but a vision to embrace, he added.

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