Texas Baptists Committed

Are You Pastoring A Country Church?
by David Roberts

How do you know if you are pastoring a city church or a country church? Check your backyard.

Baptist Born and Bred… and I haven’t changed!
by George W. Hawkes

At age 11 as the oldest son of my Baptist parents, I walked the aisle of a small rura larea Baptist Church and professed the Lord Jesus as my Saviour and Lord.

Campolo a biblical “conservative,” but his views still controversial
By Laurie Lattimore

Tony Campolo admits he’s abrasive. He even regrets not articulating some of his strong opinions in a more diplomatic manner.

CO-CHAIR THOUGHTS FROM JEROLD McBRIDE

Missionaries Deserve Better Treatment! Our foreign missionaries deserve better treatment than they have been receiving lately.

Conflict Between Comfort and Change
By Charlie McLaughlin

Change is one of the most difficult and yet necessary ingredients for personal growth.

FIRST LINES
by Roger Paynter

My friend, Bob Setzer of First Baptist in Macon, Georgia recently wrote some very insightful thoughts about the chilling episode of the Heaven’s Gate cult.

Learning From an Internship at TBC
by Brent Beasley

At the end of a six-month internship with TBC as part of my degree program at Truett Seminary, the key question for me is : What did I learn? I learned a lot of things.

Separation of Church and State: An Important Baptist Distinctive
CO-CHAIR THOUGHTS FROM BILL BRIAN

A recent event in a Baptist church in my city helped me to decide what to write in this issue of the Texas Baptists Committed newsletter.

Texans nominated for SBC positions do not bode well for cooperation

Several current and past BGCT leaders see problems in the recent appointments of Texas Baptist representatives to serve on SBC committees.

“The Ring of Truth”
by Dr. Douglas Ezell

Maybe you have said it. I’m sure you have heard it. Someone will say, “That statement has the ring of truth to it.”

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

Paige Patterson is seeking a “student assistant.” To those of us at TBC, the job doesn’t sound too exciting. What do you think?

–INTERESTING QUOTE–

“I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian
culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,
the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself. In a word
Bibliolatry. God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather
bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as
if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks
and precisely what God wants.”

Brennan Manning’s book, “Signature of Jesus”

–Another INTERESTING QUOTE–

“I think everybody should own at least one,”

(Paige) Patterson quipped when asked about women

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May 4, 1997, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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