5.18 David Schrock • Reading • “Seeking a Convention That Is Not Southern Baptist In Name Only: How to Regain Trust, Rebuild the Trustee System, and Avoid an Impending Exodus of Vocal Conservatives”

Episode 215

29 Min

March 26, 2026

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Many aspects of the SBC are broken, and this article charts a possible route forward into a dawn marked by humble leaders, diligent trustees, and a reorganization.

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“Seeking a Convention That Is Not Southern Baptist In Name Only: How to Regain Trust, Rebuild the Trustee System, and Avoid an Impending Exodus of Vocal Conservatives” – David Schrock
“Southern Baptists warm to alternate moniker ‘Great Commission Baptists’” – Adelle M. Banks
“Under Reconstruction: How the Egalitarian Beachball Wrecks the Household of God” – Christ Over All
“Creeds, Confessions, and Cooperation: The Basis of Our Unity” – Christ Over All
“The Ethics & Religious Liberty Conundrum” – Christ Over All
“More Money Than Men: The NAMB Church Planting Problem” – Michael Clary
“Whoever Holds the Purse Holds the Strings: The Financial Plan that Could End the SBC” – Rhett Burns
“What’s Trusty About SBC Trustees: Does Trustee Training Fix Ailing Entities or Institutionalize Passivity?” – Jon Whitehead
“Why Baptists Must Recover the Order of Love” – Alex Kocman
“One Sacred Effeminacy: The Cooperative Longhouse And the Great Feminization of the SBC” – Doug Ponder
“14 Clint Pressley, David Schrock, and Stephen Wellum: ‘The SBC: A Presidential Perspective with Clint Pressley’” – Christ Over All
“16 Josh Powell, David Schrock, and Stephen Wellum: ‘Getting to Know SBC Presidential Candidate Josh Powell’” – Christ Over All
“17 Willy Rice, David Schrock, and Stephen Wellum: ‘Getting to Know SBC Presidential Candidate Willy Rice’” – Christ Over All
“What Is the Cause of Our Divisions? Social Media and Other Strategies for Effecting Positive Change in the SBC” – David Schrock
“The Attempt to Clarify Resolution 9” – Tom Ascol
“Stewardship of Our SBC Land” – Mark Coppenger
“‘Too Busy with Woke Stuff’: The All Too (In)Visible and Inconsequential ERLC” – Megan Basham
“New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy and the SBC” – Joshua Abbotoy
By What Standard? God’s World, God’s Rules – Founders Ministries
How the SBC Got Played – Crosspolitic Studios
X post by Cuatro Nelson (@cuatronelson), “On Sunday, we officially voted to leave the Southern Baptist Convention…,” September 18, 2025
“We Don’t Like Theology, Do We? Three Reflections from the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention” – David Schrock
“The SBC Isn’t Drifting—It’s Being Steered: A Sober-Minded Response to Emotional Sabotage” – Michael Carlino
“Greear Announces Most Diverse Ever Committee on Committees” – Brent Hobbs
“The Great Commission Resurgence Debate” – Trevin Wax
Theme of the Month: Can the Center Hold? The Southern Baptist Convention in the 21^st Century
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- Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe – Voddie Baucham Jr.
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- The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in an Age of Individualism – Yuval Levin

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David Schrock

David Schrock is the pastor for preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. David is a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a founding faculty member and professor of theology at Indianapolis Theology Seminary. And he is the author of Royal Priesthood and Glory of God along with many journal articles and online essays.
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5.18 David Schrock • Reading • “Seeking a Convention That Is Not Southern Baptist In Name Only: How to Regain Trust, Rebuild the Trustee System, and Avoid an Impending Exodus of Vocal Conservatives”

Episode 215

29 Min

March 26, 2026

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