Diverse Baptist Leaders Engage in Historic Conversation on Racial Unity

Baptist leaders from across denominational lines are engaging in a historic national conversation on racial unity this week.

Dr. Jerry Young, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, the largest majority African-American Christian denomination in the United States, will be joining SBC President Dr. Ronnie Floyd at the denomination's annual meeting.

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Young's participation is the first time in at least 35 years that the National Baptist Convention president has been invited to address the SBC.

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla, also spoke at the annual meeting Tuesday night.

Lankford continued his call for national unity, a theme he addressed during his speech last weekend at the Faith & Freedom Coalition.

In that speech, Lankford appealed to Americans to turn to God for the country's restoration.

"I will tell you there are a lot of people that have this sense that our hope should be in Washington. I would tell you our hope should not be in Washington," he said. "I would say we have a higher hope than that."

"I would also tell you that for all of the folks that believe if we just elect the right people they will change the nation," he continued. "Let me remind you of something. Washington doesn't change the country. The country changes Washington."

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