I got the opportunity to sit down recently with Kevin Ezell, who has been my pastor for 14 years, my boss for 8 years, and is now the new President at the North American Mission Board (NAMB). I asked him some questions about his transition to NAMB. Here is the audio of that interview where we get a glimpse of what Kevin’s heart is and what is in store for NAMB.
Interview with Ezell
[podcast]http://www.baptisttwentyone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/B21-KevinEzell-Interview.mp3[/podcast]
Some of the questions asked are:
- How will NAMB put into practice the GCR recommendation to phase out the Cooperative Agreements with the State Conventions? What will NAMB’s relationship be now with the State Conventions?
- The GCR & the SBC said that they want NAMB’s primary focus to be church planting. Has that not been NAMB’s focus?
- Will NAMB partner with local churches of all sizes in doing church planting? Will NAMB explore partnerships with smaller SBC church planting networks?
- Will NAMB take on a regional outlook?
- What are 2-3 things you will try to accomplish immediately?
- Why did Highview Baptist not support the KBC/Annie Armstrong at a high level? Will this pose a problem for you in your role at NAMB? What if every church gave like Highview?
- How has your experience as a pastor prepared you for this role?
- Who are your heroes and major influences?
- AND MORE…
Baptist21 is extremely excited for the future of NAMB with Kevin at the helm. We pray that by God’s grace a multitude of gospel-centered churches will be planted across this nation in the years to come!
I got the opportunity to sit down recently with Kevin Ezell, who has been my pastor for 14 years, my boss for 8 years, and is now the new President at the North American Mission Board (NAMB). I asked him some questions about his transition to NAMB. Here is the audio of that interview where we get a glimpse of what Kevin’s heart is and what is in store for NAMB.
2 Comments on this post
Leave a CommentWith the GCR recommending to end the Cooperative Agreements with state conventions what happens now to state conventions? The SBC has some states that need that cooperation to survive I would think.
With the SBC saying that the primary focus is going to be church planting will this help younger people like myself to plant a church if they feel called?
Great interview and am excited to see where Kevin takes NAMB and the SBC in the future. Thank you for your great site.
Cory
Comment left on 9.28.2010 by Cory McDonald
Jon:
Thanks for conducting this interview!
I agree that the NAMB needs to be more efficient — prioritizing what we do. With plateauing resources (or shrinking resources) we can’t just keep on doing the “same things the same way”.
I think the state of Nevada may be on to something — namely, collapsing the state convention and the associations into one entity. I don’t see why we need four layers of management to do church planting in the USA — i.e local churches, associations, state conventions, and the NAMB.
Things at the NAMB are getting “on track”.
Roger Simpson
Comment left on 9.28.2010 by Roger Simpson