Baylor Board of Regents Support Recommendations

The Baylor Board of Regents passed a resolution to call upon Texas Baptists to support the recommendations of the BGCT administrative committee to be voted upon October 30 in Corpus Christi. According to a Baylor Press Release the resolution of support for the BGCT comes less than two weeks after the state convention's administrative committee approved a proposal to reduce funding for Southern Baptist seminaries and redirect those funds to Texas Baptist educational institutions, including Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary.

The resolution states:

"The Board of Regents of Baylor University conveys its support, prayers and encouragement to Dr. Charles Wade, Executive Director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, to his coworkers and to all fellow Texas Baptists who have resolved to resist the Fundamentalist faction in Baptist life identified with the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. We further call upon fellow Texas Baptists to reject all human creeds and statements of faith that would deny us freedom of individual conscience, the right to interpret Scripture for ourselves, and would in any way diminish Jesus Christ as our Guide and the Lord of Scripture. We support strongly the recommendations of the Baptist General Convention of Texas administrative committee regarding the reallocation of funding for theological education and call upon all Texas Baptists to affirm these new opportunities to advance the Kingdom of God through the ministries of the Baptist General Convention of Texas."

October 2000