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Baptist Press
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Wednesday
4:53 p.m. — The 2013 SBC annual meeting has been gaveled to a close. Next year’s meeting will take place in Baltimore, Md.
4:48 p.m. — Luter thanks Southern Baptists for re-electing him. He leads messengers saying in unison, three times, “Lord send the revival and let it begin with me.”
4:47 p.m. — Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Daniel Akin delivered the Convention Sermon, preaching from Romans 15:14-24 and referencing the debate last year over the descriptor “Great Commission Baptists” and the close vote that ensued. Not giving an opinion on the issue, Akin said the real issue is not what Southern Baptists will be called, but if they “will we be Great Commission Baptists”
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