Bryant Wright served as senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia from its founding in 1981 until 2019.
10 Facts About Bryant Wright
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Bryant Wright served as elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention from June 2010 to June 2012.
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Bryant Wright succeeded Johnny Hunt, who had served two one-year terms.
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Bryant Wright earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of South Carolina in 1974 and a Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1979.
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Bryant Wright received honorary doctorates from SEFOVAN Seminary, Madrid, Spain - June 2007 and University of South Carolina - May 2011.
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Bryant Wright is a strong supporter of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force established by his predecessor, which issued a report that calls for rejuvenation of the SBC with greater emphasis on evangelism.
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Bryant Wright has called on pastors to try to make more Cooperative Program funding available for missions to unreached people around the world.
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Bryant Wright has said he dreams of seeing every Southern Baptist pastor and church take at least one mission trip.
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Bryant Wright calls himself "a follower of Jesus Christ that believes the Bible" and says "I really don't believe that human beings are ever going to completely reconcile the sovereignty of God and the free will of man".
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At the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention, Bryant Wright joined Tom Elliff, IMB president, in challenging Southern Baptist churches to claim responsibility by the 2012 SBC annual meeting for reaching all 3,800 unengaged, unreached people groups.