2. Crisis Leads to CP
Early 1900โs were a financial
struggle for the SBC
โข US in post-WWI recession
โข Churches & Agencies in Debt
โข Societal approach with
โspecial appealsโ hurting
overall mission efforts
3. The Drawback of Societal
Missions
โข Imbalance in the pulpit
โ Fund-raising guest speakers
took up to 20 Sundays per year
โข Poor strategic impact
โ Pathos determined level of
support
โ Skill in appeal overshadowed
strategic importance
4. Reshaping SBC Giving
โข The year is 1919 and the players:
โ J.B. Gambrell โ President of SBC
โ Louie Newton โ influential pastor
โ L.R. Scarborough โ President of
SWBTS
โข The plan โ โ75 Million Campaignโ
โ Pledges of 92 million dollars in five
years
โ Receipts of 58 million dollars
โ Near the total giving of the entire
previous history of the SBC
5. Historic Success
โข Growth
โ 1941 โ 4 million dollars
โ 1961 โ 50 million dollars
โ 1996 โ 409 million dollars
โ 2005 โ 522 million dollars
6. How CP is Spent
Each state convention determines a percentage of
CP receipts that will be sent to the SBC
Executive Committee for distribution to SBC
entities.
โข In 2005 the average amount of CP used for state
convention ministries was 62.5 percent of total
CP receipts.
โข The remainder, roughly 37.5 percent, was
forwarded to the SBC for national and worldwide
ministries.
โข Messengers to the 2006 meeting of the Southern
Baptist Convention held in Greensboro, NC
approved the SBC CP Allocation Budget for
2006-2007 of $195,948,423
โข The long-hoped-for, never realized goal is a
50-50 split
7. Todayโs Challenges
โข Generational fragmentation
โข Rising church debt
โข Church-driven local/global missions
โข National organizational complacency
โข Lack of compelling NA vision
โข Rise of special offerings for SBC
agencies
โข Competing visions from influential
leaders
To our shame, money and power still drive much of
what we say and do rather than a prayerfully derived
consensus concerning the will of God
