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The Florida Baptist Witness & The Kevin Ezell Candidacy: An Interlude by Peter Lumpkins

Updates, by nature, are usually designed to clarify. When the Florida Baptist Witness first released Dr. Ezell's name as the NAMB presidential candidate, a brief but vague statement was made concerning Highview's missions giving.  Mainly, it was a generic statement about how many dollars were given for "Southern Baptist causes," the new GCRR-speak we've all anxiously awaited.

Welcome to the All New North American Mission Board: the Candidacy of Kevin Ezell as President (part I) by Peter Lumpkins

I know of Highview Baptist Church since I served as pastor not too far from the Fegenbush “campus” in the early to mid-eighties (my first tenure as pastor). At that time, it was the most evangelistically aggressive Southern Baptist church in the metropolitan Louisville area. Bill Hancock was dynamite in the pulpit and was burning up the concrete doing confrontational, door-to-door evangelism.

Kevin Ezell to NAMB Creates Chatter on Twitter by Peter Lumpkins

       The Twitter board got a little giddy yesterday when North American Mission Board, search chairman Ted Traylor told Florida Baptist Witness that they had found “God’s man.” He had earlier said to the Trustees and recorded by Baptist Press:  "I am delighted to report to you that our search team has found God's man to be nominated as the next president of NAMB.” At this time, Ezell’s name was yet to be released. Only a few hours later, Traylor revealed the identity of the candidate to Witness Executive Editor, James Smith, Sr.