SBC President Voter Guide

Voter Guide Notes

1. Purpose

The purpose of the SBC Today Voter Guide is to provide SBC Messengers with accurate information concerning SBC Presidential Nominees early enough in the election cycle to allow for their study of the relevant issues.

2. Method

Rather than relying upon nominee interviews, which are often helpful, we prefer to offer readers facts and statements which have already become a part of the historical record. The use of verbatim personal quotes spanning a broader period of time allows a more thorough investigation into each nominee’s background.

3. Accuracy

Each entry consists of facts taken directly from published news sources, including the frequent use of verbatim quotes by the nominees. In some cases, to accommodate the space limitations of the Voter Guide table, slight redactions and the occasional borrowing of an antecedent from a previous sentence were required. Such editing never alters the meaning of any Voter Guide entry. 

4. Context

SBC Today believes each Voter Guide entry stands alone as a complete unit of thought. We nevertheless encourage readers to explore the full context of every statement to develop a broader understanding of the issues than the space limitations of a Voter Guide will allow. Because we wish to encourage such further research, each Voter Guide citation below is hyperlinked to the original source.

View of State Conventions and Local Associations

Greear, JD. “Our Church, The SBC, and the Cooperative Program.” JD Greear Ministries. February 8, 2012. jdgreear.com.

Hemphill, Ken. “Convention Priorities.” Ken Hemphill SBC 2018. March 13, 2018. kenhemphill2018.com.

Cooperative Versus Societal Missions

Greear, JD. “Our Missions Strategy and the SBC.” JD Greear Ministries. June 9, 2008. jdgreear.com.

Hemphill, Ken. “Convention Priorities.” Ken Hemphill SBC 2018. March 13, 2018. kenhemphill2018.com.

Southern Baptist Identity Approval

Greear, JD. “Your God Is Too Small.” Sermon, Morning Worship Service, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina, February 4, 2018.

Hemphill, Ken. “Convention Priorities.” Ken Hemphill SBC 2018. March 13, 2018. kenhemphill2018.com.

Transparent Salvation Doctrine Position

Greear, JD. “Don’t Be A Fundamentalist (Calvinist or Otherwise).” JD Greear Ministries. September 11, 2014. jdgreear.com.

Wilson, Jared C. “The Top 125 Influences on the Gospel-Centered Movement.” The Gospel Coalition. January 26, 2018. thegospelcoalition.org.

Hemphill, Ken. Unlimited: God’s Love, Atonement, and Mission. Traveler’s Rest, SC: Auxano Press, 2018.

A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation. Connect 316. May 2012. connect316.net.

Cooperative Kingdom Participation Convictions

Cosper, Mike. “Mike Cosper Interviews JD Greear.” Audio podcast. Sojourn Network. November 9, 2017. sojournnetwork.com.

Hemphill, Ken. “Convention Priorities.” Ken Hemphill SBC 2018. March 13, 2018. kenhemphill2018.com.

Internal Versus External Cooperation

Greear, JD. “Acts 29 and the SBC.” JD Greear Ministries. February 20, 2009. jdgreear.com.

Greear, JD. “Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.” JD Greear Ministries. August 13, 2009. jdgreear.com.

Hemphill, Ken. “Convention Priorities.” Ken Hemphill SBC 2018. March 13, 2018. kenhemphill2018.com.

Record of Cooperative Program Support

Roach, David. “JD Greear to be SBC President Nominee Again.” Baptist Press. January 29, 2018. bpnews.net.

Hall, Will. “Ken Hemphill to be SBC President Nominee.” The Message. February 1, 2018. baptistmessage.com. 

Convictions Regarding Beverage Alcohol

Miller, Norm. “Pastor Recaps Reasons for Alcohol Motion.” Baptist Press. November 22, 2010. bpnews.net.

Lumpkins, Peter. “On J.D. Greear’s View of Alcohol: Inadequate, Naive, Relativistic, Unbiblical Balderdash: And That’s Putting It Mildly.” SBC Tomorrow. November 8, 2010. peterlumpkins.typepad.com.

Greear, J.D. “Three Ways We Make It Difficult For People Turning to God.” J.D. Greear Ministries. August 27, 2014. jdgreear.com

Rodgers, Jane. “Q and A with SBC Presidential Candidate Kenneth Hemphill.” Southern Baptist Texan. March 28, 2018. texanonline.net