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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Buice has served as a pastor of Pray's Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia | Buice has served as a pastor of Pray's Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia 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. | ||
===G3 Ministries=== | ===G3 Ministries=== | ||
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. | 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. | ||
===Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel=== | ===Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel=== | ||
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"). | 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"). | ||
[[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. | [[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. | ||
===Exit from the Southern Baptist Convention=== | ===Exit from the Southern Baptist Convention=== | ||
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. | 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. | ||
== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||
