Foreword, Russell D. Moore Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION A Never-Changing Witness in an Ever-Changing World: The Enduring Southern Baptist Mandate Jason K. Allen PART 1: SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND COOPERATION 1. How the Cooperative Program Empowers Churches to Gospel Ministry Robert J. Matz & John Mark Yeats 2. By the Numbers: What SBC Demographics Tell Us About Our Past, Present, and Future Thom S. Rainer 3. From Babylon Baptist to Baptists in Babylon: The SBC and the Broader Evangelical Community Collin Hansen & Justin Taylor 4.

The Future of Baptist State Conventions Paul Chitwood & John L. Yeats PART 2: SOUTHERN BAPTIST DOCTRINE AND DISTINCTIVES 5. Southern Baptists and the Quest for Theological Identity: Unavoidable Questions for the Twenty-First Century R. Albert Mohler Jr. 6. Who Are Southern Baptists? Toward an Intergenerational Identity David S. Dockery 7. More than Fifteen Million Southern Baptists? Recovering Regenerate Church Membership John Mark Yeats 8.

A Denomination Always for the Church: Ecclesiological Distinctives as a Basis for Confessional Cooperation Jason G. Duesing 9. Steel-Toed Birkenstocks and Doctrine-Loving Christians: Southern Baptist Witness and Ethics in the New Sexual Age Owen D. Strachan PART 3: SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTRY AND MISSION 10. Kindling Afresh the Gift of God: Spiritual Renewal, Strategic Reinvention, and the SBC Ronnie Floyd 11. The Future of the IMB and Our Collaborative Great Commission Work David Platt 12. Every Church on a Mission: The North American Mission Board in the Twenty-First Century Kevin Ezell 13. Training the Next Generation of Pastors, Ministers, and Missionaries: Southern Baptist Theological Education in the Twenty-First Century Jason K.

Allen 14. Preach the Word! Biblical Preaching and Congregational Renewal Tony Merida 15. Every Kindred, Tongue, and Tribe? Ethnic Diversity in the SBC Daniel L. Akin & Walter R. Strickland II Conclusion Jason K. Allen Appendix A Appendix B Contributors Name and Subject Index.