Tag: Steve McNeil

Challenges – things that get in our way, barriers to where we believe God is leading us. 2020 opened our eyes to many gaps in our local church ministry. It forced us to look internally at how and why we do the things we do. One challenge is will we just go back to doing […]

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We hope that you have scheduled Monday, October 19th to be at your State Convention of Baptists in Indiana annual celebration. We will begin at 10:00 AM and conclude at 5:15 PM. You can see more information at, https://scbi.org/events/annual-convention-meeting/. This year we will be inviting you to join the SCBI staff, the Executive Board in […]

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In last month’s Indiana Baptist I shared with you an overarching view of the work that a team of SCBI leaders have been working on over the past year.  Today I would like to take one piece of that work and dig a little deeper with you.  Let’s talk about our SCBI Mission. I know […]

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Notification of proposed changes to the SCBI By-laws.  The following were approved by the Executive Board during the March and the August board meetings. The Executive Board recommends that this change be approved, to clarify the spirit of convention officers who are nominated and elected to serve the convention for one consecutive two-year term in […]

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    I believe that God’s word is true and I find myself these days thinking a lot about 1 Chronicles 12:32 (NASB) 32  Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do,” These are interesting days in which we live. The promise and hope that we […]

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The theme of this year’s state convention annual meeting was based on Hebrews 3:13, But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today.” Interesting isn’t it, that this was the theme determined three years ago by a team of leaders in our state convention of churches. Once again I […]

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What “phase” are we in? How long has it been now? I wonder what will be next? Will my job still be there? Oh, my job is already gone! When should we come back to meeting at church for worship? I am sure that there are a ton of questions like these that are regularly […]

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Churches helping churches and churches coming alongside churches. These are two key values that we work with at your State Convention office. The overarching goal of the Mile Markers 2025 Vision is that we would choose to cooperate together by churches helping churches. No matter which of the eight Markers you work on, we all […]

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This is the heartbeat of the “Mile Marker 2025” emphasis. How can we help each other for the sake of the gospel and His kingdom? There are many ways to do this (you can see the first four below). My prayer is that even though we have designated eight possible ways, that each believer, each […]

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By Dr. Steve McNeil August of 2018, the state convention Executive Board approved a seven-year plan to strengthen our churches, associations and state convention. During the 2019 year, we emphasized the first two components of this strategy, evangelism and revitalization. For 2020 we will be emphasizing equipping and the Cooperative Program. There are of course […]

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