Josh Buice: Difference between revisions

Buice has served as a pastor of Pray's Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia<ref>{{cite web|title=Pray's Mill Baptist Church – Church Leaders|url=http://praysmill.com/our-leaders/|publisher=Pray's Mill Baptist Church|accessdate=June 10, 2023|year=2023}}</ref> since August 2010. He has a [[Bachelors of Business Administration|B.S.B.A.]] from the University of West Georgia (2001) and has also earned [[Masters of Divinity|M.Div]] and [[Doctorate of Ministry|D.Min]] degrees from the [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]] in Louisville, Kentucky. As of April 2023, [[Grace Bible Theological Seminary|Grace Bible Theological Seminary (GPTS)]] announced that Buice will begin serving as an assistant professor of preaching at the seminary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Grace Baptist Theological Seminary (GPTS) Announcements|url=http://gbtseminary.org/announcing-dr-josh-buice-assistant-professor-of-preaching/|publisher=Grace Baptist Theological Seminary (GPTS)|accessdate=June 10, 2023|year=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gospel-Grace-Glory: An Examination of G3 Ministries|url=http://sharperiron.org/article/gospel-grace-glory-examination-of-g3-ministries/|publisher=Sharper Iron|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref>

Buice is the Founder and currently serves as the President of [[G3 Ministries]]. G3 began with the first G3 Conference (Gospel – Grace – Glory) in 2013, which was held on the campus of Pray's Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia where Josh Buice serves as Pastor. As the conference grew, a 501(c)(3) organization was formed in 2020 during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] to become a ministry organization that hosts the [[G3 Conference]] biennially, along with other workshops and trainings, and to provide various theological multimedia resources for local churches.<ref>{{cite web|title=G3 Ministries History|url=http://g3min.org/about/history/|publisher=[[G3 Ministries]]|accessdate=June 10, 2023|year=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gospel-Grace-Glory: An Examination of G3 Ministries|url=http://sharperiron.org/article/gospel-grace-glory-examination-of-g3-ministries/|publisher=Sharper Iron|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref>

In June 2018, Buice organized a meeting in Dallas, Texas with other conservative evangelicals to address the issue of a rising social justice movement among [[American evangelicalism|American Evangelicals]]. Buice and others claimed that those in that movement were mixing the Christian [[Gospel]] and the [[social gospel]], which led to the drafting of the [[Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel]] (which is also referred to as "The Dallas Statement").<ref>{{Cite web | first=Tom | last=Ascol | url=https://statementonsocialjustice.com/ | title=History and Formation | website=Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel}}</ref>

[[Tom Ascol]] was given the responsibility to write the original draft,<ref>{{Cite web | first=Tom | last=Ascol | url=https://statementonsocialjustice.com/ | title=History and Formation | website=Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel}}</ref> which upon revision was signed first by the original summit attendees also including [[James White]], [[John MacArthur]], [[Voddie Baucham]], and others. Over ten thousand churches or individuals have since added their signatures on the website that was for the statement.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://statementonsocialjustice.com/#Signers | title=Signers. | website=Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel}}</ref>

In January 2022, Buice announced that Pray's Mill Baptist Church was leaving the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], claiming that leaders in the SBC were "behind the scenes" working on a "devious deconstruction plan" for the convention, and that the convention had largely shifted away from a theologically conservative denomination towards a more liberal-influenced one.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pray's Mill Baptist Church leaves the SBC|url=http://churchleaders.com/news/414152-g3-ministries-presidents-church-leaves-the-sbc-beth-moore-jokes-she-started-a-movement.html/|publisher=Church Leaders|accessdate=June 10, 2023|year=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gospel-Grace-Glory: An Examination of G3 Ministries|url=http://sharperiron.org/article/gospel-grace-glory-examination-of-g3-ministries/|publisher=Sharper Iron|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref>