GCR Report Reflections
24. Feb, 2010 
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I am most grateful to God for the privilege to be a part of this Great Commission Resurgence movement. The GCR is a grassroots movement of people who have a heart to reach the nations. I want to share a few thoughts with you today that are just GCR report reflections.
1) The GCR report was received by those present on Monday night. While everyone may not agree with each component of the GCR vision, we know our leadership desires to penetrate the lostness of the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, God honored our time together in a major way. Not only was this report received on Monday night by those in the room, but Southern Baptists have a great interest in it. In the first 20 hours the report was online at www.pray4gcr.com, we had over 17,000 visitors, and the video has been viewed by at least 3,535 people. Yes, great interest exists in our convention about this GCR movement.
2) The GCR report time was one of the most prayed for moments in perhaps our history. With our 6,200 GCR Prayer Partners, many churches, and major prayer networks praying for Monday night, thousands of people were before the Father in prayer at some point. Therefore, God honored us with His presence.
3) The GCR report was a team experience. So many parts of that report were items contributed by our task force at various points of time over the past several months. Yes, I did write it and had the privilege to deliver it, but it only occurred because of “a team that asked a lot of great questions and did much research.” I am so thankful for the members of the GCR Task Force. Additionally, from my assistants in my office to an inner core of my staff members who have helped along the way to our church’s web and graphics experts who have helped us so much, it took a team to give this report. By the way, we are so much better when we work as a team. I am so limited, but with God and then His people working together, it is amazing how much God can do.
4) The GCR report can be improved upon and we will work hard to do this together. If someone has a desire to give input to our report, they can do it. Perhaps they can help us improve it; if so, bring it on, this is the Lord’s work and we want it to be excellent! While we have worked with diligence on this report, we have to work harder from this point forward to make it more effective.
5) The GCR report is the Lord’s! We have committed this report to Him as we continue to discern His will for the final report. Please know, dear friends, our GCR team knows above all that the Great Commission is Jesus’ vision and agenda. We want His power to be revealed through this report as His glory is extended to the nations. Join us in this grassroots movement as we move forward to Orlando, Florida.
Pray for a Great Commission Resurgence faithfully,
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Brother Ronnie,
I’m a pastor in South Carolina and was greatly encouraged in reading the commentary and the report. Their will always be disagreement about how to stucture things, but their cannot be any disagreement regarding the need for repentance and a return to God in our churches. We pray that will remain a focal point as you proceed toward May and the issuing of the full report. God Bless
Pator Floyd I am a pastor in Nebraska and I am in agreement for the need to repent and turn to God. However, from what I have read concerning the GCR report I am very much unsatisfied with many of the proposals especially concerning NAMB and the relationship with pioneer states within the convention. I beleive it will be disasterous for work in our pioneer work states. Again I understand the full report isn’t out but from what we have read I think the report is shortsighted and pretty much reflects the view of those with a Bible Belt background and lack of experience and understanding of poioneer work. I believe such a relationship as proposed will lead to a greater inequity within our convention between the strong Southern sates and those not traditionally Southern Baptist. I also think it will likely be detrimental to the Cooperative Program and that many non tradition states will end up reducing thier CP giving and retain more without the support agreemenst with NAMB. Being a Georgia native who has given 18+ years to work in this state there is a vast difference in the way things work outside the south where people have no idea who or what Southern Baptist are. And if I understand correctly the idea that bigger Southern state conventions are going to share their resources with pioneer areas is a pipe dream. Again while I agree with the need for repentance and turning I simply strongly diasagree with much of what I have heard about how this report recommends it take place.
Sorry I didn’ tcheck the spelling in the previous response!