THE DR. JERRY YOUNG ERA IS OVER AT THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION. FROM A CONTROVERSIAL VOTE, THE NEW PRESIDENT IS DR. BOISE KIMBER; HOWEVER, MANY ARE NOT PLEASED WITH THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION AND ARE THINKING ABOUT LEAVING.

DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, SAYS PRAY FOR THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION USA. DUE TO THE COMPROMISING COLLUSION WITH THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA, ON THE FATAL ISSUE OF THE ABOMINATION OF SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY, THE NATION IS FAR WORSE OFF THAN IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO. WE PRAY THAT THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION WILL PRAY, SEEK GOD’S FACE, TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, REPENT AND GO BACK TO THEIR FIRST LOVE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND LEAD THE CHURCH, PRESIDENTS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE NATION, AND THE WORLD BACK TO GOD AND JESUS CHRIST AND END THIS JUDAS-LAODICEAN “FALLING AWAY.”

BALTIMORE — The sole candidate in a high-stakes election for leadership in the nation’s largest Black Protestant denomination achieved a convincing victory Thursday, a disappointing outcome for an opposition campaign that sought to nullify the election and restart the process.

In the election for president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Connecticut pastor Rev. Boise Kimber received 69% of the total 2,538 votes cast. Officials for the Nashville-based denomination announced the results on Thursday evening in the last item of business for the convention’s 2024 annual session in Baltimore.

Kimber will succeed outgoing president Rev. Jerry Young, a Mississippi pastor who has served as the denomination’s administrative head for the past decade, amid a broader struggle in the convention for relevance. The incoming president, in addition to working to address those challenges, will face unrest over governance standards from which the latest controversy emerged.

Kimber declined to respond to media request for comment before the election results were announced. Delegates, called messengers, to the National Baptist Convention, USA, often known as the NBCUSA, voted at polling stations on Thursday between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Kimber briefly addressed the convention from the stage on Thursday evening. “This new administration is not going to dishonor this convention,” Kimber said.

Kimber said he would further the spirit of Young’s progress, alluding to his experience serving the outgoing president. “Whatever was asked for me to do, I did it for the president and for the convention,” Kimber said.

The NBCUSA is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and has between 5.2 million and 7.5 million members nationwide. It has a long legacy on issues such civil rights, criminal justice, housing, and has invested in voter rights initiatives. The president and a board of directors help manage denomination business outside the annual session.

Four candidates for NBCUSA president who were ultimately ineligible for the ballot — Chicago pastor Rev. Alvin Love, Detroit pastor Rev. Tellis Chapman, San Francisco-area pastor Rev. Claybon Lea, Jr., and Florida pastor Rev. James Sampson — led a joint campaign to mobilize supporters to Baltimore to vote against Kimber’s candidacy. The four candidates, who produced a video in May and hosted a rally in June, reminded messengers of the stakes of the election in a public letter on Thursday morning.

“A ‘NO’ vote will allow us to ensure that the next election cycle is fair for all and no registered entity is disenfranchised,” they wrote. “A ‘Yes’ vote means that Dr. Boise Kimber will lead our Convention for the next five years and that it is okay to prevent registered entities from voting.”

“Either choice has significant implications for our convention’s governance and future,” the group added.

A referendum on convention governance

The election for the denomination’s president turned into a referendum on the convention’s governance due to a controversial decision by the board of directors to restrict certain churches from nominating candidates.

Only churches registered with the convention in 2021 and 2022, and some churches registered in 2020, were allowed to nominate candidates. The board excluded churches registered in 2023, a decision that subtracted from the total nominations the candidates received and submitted in January.

Love, Lea, Sampson and Chapman argued the tighter restrictions disenfranchised churches that were faithful to the convention. The four candidates also disputed the board of directors deciding not to refer the matter to the full convention.

“We’ve been in a mourning process for nine months,” Love said in a Sept. 4 interview with The Tennessean. “I think at this point the convention is ready to get out of mourning and ready to get up, clean up and stand up.”

Love said ahead of the election results he’s willing to work with everyone to address concerns, such as inconsistencies with the denomination’s governing documents and the absence of publicly available annual reports containing information about convention registration.

Other dissenting voices had deeper concerns ahead of this week’s annual session, with some pastors saying the outcome of the presidential election will determine whether they leave the denomination. The anxieties come at a time of diminished enthusiasm and participation in convention life and its annual session — a key barometer for assessing the denomination’s yearly revenue and rank-and-file participation in its governance.

Young, in his farewell address to the convention on Thursday morning, mentioned the governance controversy and called out those who sought to protest Kimber’s candidacy.

“You can’t get in the middle of the process and then decide it ought to change,” Young said. “I’m going to agree that a lot needs to change, and it does. But it’s in the 9th inning and you just can’t change the rules.”

The number of messengers who voted in the convention’s presidential election was significantly less than that of the last major election in 2014, when 6,400 messengers voted and elected young with 49% of the vote.

IF YOU WERE TO DIE TODAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO: HEAVEN OR HELL? IF YOU’RE NOT SURE, “BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED” FOR JESUS CHRIST SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS EVER SPOKEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD WHEN HE SAID, “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.” READ FURTHER RIGHT HERE:

THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III

This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.

“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.

Not “Trying” But “Trusting”

“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.

What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!

What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.

The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!

May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!

One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.

If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.

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THE DR. JERRY YOUNG ERA IS OVER AT THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION. FROM A CONTROVERSIAL VOTE, THE NEW PRESIDENT IS DR. BOISE KIMBER; HOWEVER, MANY ARE NOT PLEASED WITH THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION AND ARE THINKING ABOUT LEAVING.

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