The benefits of cooperation are listed online at sbc.net.Ĭooperating with the SBC will advance Laurie’s pursuit of the next great awakening, he said. The church also gains the opportunity to hold appointments to SBC committees and boards, election to SBC posts and tuition discounts at SBC seminaries. “It merely extends the reach of our fellowship within the Christian world at a time when the vision and mission of Harvest remains - as it has been for 42 years - focused on the teaching of God’s Word and the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”Īs a cooperating church, Harvest Christian Fellowship will maintain autonomy while gaining the opportunity to support Southern Baptist work, ministry and missions at the local, national and international levels. Laurie, founding pastor of the 15,000-member Harvest Christian Fellowship based in Riverside, Calif., concurrently announced plans to hold one of his Harvest Crusades in advance of the 2018 SBC annual meeting in Dallas.Ĭooperating with the SBC “does not change our theology, philosophy of ministry or our history,” Laurie said in a June 13 press release. PHOENIX - Just one day after seeing nearly 3,400 come to Christ at a Harvest America crusade in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention 2017 annual meeting, megachurch pastor Greg Laurie announced his official cooperation with the SBC.
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