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By JERRY HIGGINS
Special to Florida Baptist Witness
PRAYER John Cross, FBSC president (l-r), and Clayton Cloer, president of the Florida Baptist Pastors’ Conference, welcome John Sullivan to the platform to pray, Nov. 9. Joni B. Hannigan
The pastors were called to preach with “honor.” They were called to “honor” their wives and bring “honor” to their noble profession.
Ultimately, pastors were called to the pulpit and to “honor” God in everything they do.
RESPECT Wesley Green, pastor, Christway Baptist Church, and his wife, are honored at the Florida Baptist Pastors’ Conference Nov. 9-10 at Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola. Eva Wolever
“You see signs with ‘Honor’ with a medallion here,” said Olive Baptist Church pastor Ted Traylor. “The Bible tells us that the workman that rules well in teaching and preaching is worthy of a double honor—timia in the Greek New Testament. The goal of our conference is to see all pastors live up to timia.”
Attendees heard powerful messages from Traylor, Bob Pitman of the Adrian Rogers Center for Biblical Preaching in Tennessee, Don Wilton of First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, S.C., Bartholomew Orr, pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southhaven, Miss., and Alabama evangelist Junior Hill. Michael Cloer, pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C., led pastor’s responses. There were also 20 roundtable discussions on topics from what happens after you plant a church to staying fresh while doing some of the most exhausting work on the planet (see related story).
Calling Levi, a group of four vocalists, led worship, along with Marc Ivey, who is artist in residence at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va.
A Pastors’ Wives Conference led by Jean Stockdale of Standing Near The Cross Ministries. Stockdale, who lives by the conviction “a joyful heart is good medicine” (Proverbs 17:22) mixed humor with a strong message for wives to honor their husbands.
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