Faith: March 2009 Archives

internetmonk.com: Avoiding Death by Nostalgia: My Denomination (The SBC) Today

Is the "rope of sand" falling apart? Did the conservative resurgence unwittingly sow the seeds of the SBC's eventual dissolution? And is that even a bad thing? "So Southern Baptists began to produce young people, young pastors and young professors who were serious about putting scripture first.... above denomination[,] tradition[,] custom[,] culture and habit[,] above 'the way Southern Baptists have always done it'[,] above Southern Baptist ways of justifying what Southern Baptists do..... Gone are the days when Nashville (or the state convention office) determined the programs and priorities of every SBC church."