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The division from the American Baptist Association took place in Lakeland, Fla. in 1950. With that came the North American Baptist Association with a new direction and, as a result, new leadership. That new association of churches in 1968 became the Baptist Missionary Association of America due to some confusion titling with another group of Baptists. As the new group assembled in Little Rock later in 1950, the first president was elected to moderate the assembly and to help mark out a ...
How do you respond when you hear that God loves you? For me, the first time I realized that truth it was touching, but now one of two things happen:
• It falls on deaf ears — I’m numb to it, I’ve heard it, but it doesn’t pierce my heart.
• I think to myself, I know God loves everyone, but I’m not sure if I’m in that everyone list.
I hear song lyrics like “Jesus loves all the little...