Nelson Price

Nelson Lynn Price (August 24, 1931 – August 30, 2025) was an American Southern Baptist Convention pastor, speaker, and writer.

Life Price was born in 1931 in Osyka, Mississippi, and was given ten days to live by doctors. He grew up in an agrarian community and gained a degree in Horticulture from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1953. He felt a strong compulsion to commit his life to ministry and took a Master's Degree at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

He pastored a small church in southern Louisiana for three years, and Oak Park Baptist Church in New Orleans for ten years, before becoming the pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia, in 1965.

Price oversaw a television and radio program called Come Alive, which reportedly reached 20 million homes. He began writing a column for the Marietta Daily Journal in 1966, which lasted for nearly sixty years, as well as authoring books.

He was the first Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1991, and chairman of the National Fellowship of Christian Athletes Board of Trustees from 1999-2005, having been awarded varsity letters in basketball and track from his alma mater, Southeastern Louisiana University. He was also President of the SBC Pastor’s Conference, President of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and chairman of the Shorter University Board of Trustees.

His speaking engagements included state and national civic clubs’ conventions, students, NFL, NBA, and college athletic teams. He also preached inaugural messages before Jimmy Carter, and Joe Frank Harris.

Other academic achievements He gained honorary doctoral degrees from Mercer University in 1984 and Hannibal-LaGrange College in 1990.

Death Price died on August 30, 2025, aged 94.

Books Shadows we run from - 1975 I've got to play on their court - 1975 How to find out who you are - 1977 The Occult Is Lion Country - 1978 Supreme Happiness - 1979 Only the Beginning - 1980 The destruction of death - 1982 Tenderness and 24 other ways to make a marriage work - 1986 New Age, the Occult, and Lion Country - 1989 Backstage at the Church - 2004 The Chronicles of Nicodemus - 2008 Heaven: Earth’s Ultimate Mystery - 2014 Prayer: Closet Power - 2014 Servants Not Celebrities - 2014 Backstage at the Manger: The Story of Christ’s Birth - 2014 The Apostles - 2014 Plodders: The Improbables Doing the Incredible - 2014 The Emmanuel Factor - 2015 Called to Splendor - 2015 Farewell to Fear - 2015 Prelude People - 2016 Uplifted: A Journey Through Acts - 2025