Texas Baptists Committed

CO-CHAIR THOUGHTS FROM DEAN DICKENS
Restructuring Does Need To Take Place

Several days ago, my secretary mentioned that her young son had placed a collect call home for his mom.

FLOWING WITH THE KINGDOM
by Dan Williams

One day in a graduate preaching seminar at the old Southern Seminary, Ken Chafin reflected on Martin Luther King’s life by saying: “Sometimes we get to choose the dragons we fight in life and ministry; other times the dragons choose us.

We need a new seminary “for such a time as this”
By Marv Knox

Al Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, hit the mark when he said the serninary’s April 17-19 trustee meeting marked a “defining moment” in the history of the school.

Could Jesus teach social work at Southern Seminary?
By Marv Knox

“Christian” no longer stands as the dominant modifier for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

“Lovelessness” plagues SBC, ethicist tells American Baptists
By Marv Knox

Southem Baptists will not move forward until they “learn how to love each other as fellow Christians once again.” ethios professor David Gushee told a meeting of American Baptists.

Prayer Ministry of Crescent Heights Baptist Church
By Mike Chancellor

Several years ago at one of the more intense times of conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, I was impressed about the need to share something positive with those who worked so tirelessly in our institutions.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY: TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

If it was not actually true, you would never believe the events of the last three months on the campus of Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

THE PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS
by Ed Hogan

The purpose of this chapter is to define, interpret, trace and integrate Baptist beliefs concerning the Reformation precept commonly known as “Priesthood of the Believer “.

The Real “Slippery Slope” of Inerrancy
by Jim Denison

Have you heard of the “Wicked Bible?” It was an edition of the King James Version issued in London in 1631.

The Religious Right and its Effect on Missions
by Don Wilkey Jr

It is no secret that the name of Christ has been used to promote some peculiar things in this world.

A Prophetic Word from the Past

“Even to the casual observer, it is evident that all Baptists do not dot every “i” and cross every “t” in exactly the same way. There is no such thing as “the Baptist faith” or “the historic Baptist faith.”
These phrases imply a creedal faith, something which Baptist have always avoided. There are certain basic things generally held by Baptist today as through past years. But underlying all of them has been the principle of soul competency in religion.

“At times one hears the prediction that Southern Baptists are about to divide over their faith. In this writer’s judgment this is most unlikely. Baptists have always agreed on basics but have had
their differences on details. This is because they have a living faith rather than a creedal one. The tensions created by these differences have kept their faith vibrant. In all likelihood the only thing that would divide Southern Baptists with regard to their faith would be for one group — to the right or left of center or even in the center — to attempt to force upon others a creedal faith. So long as
they hold to the competency of the soul in religion they will remain as one body in the faith.”

Herschel H. Hobbs,
The Baptist Faith and Message,
Convention Press, 1971, pp. 10-11.