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| The individuals you see standing before you have come to this meeting to indicate our strong support for the action taken by you today to aid our missionaries that decide, as an act of personal integrity, that they cannot sign a creed. |
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| I thought that before I began to write the enclosed document, it would be appropriate for me to answer the letter that you have written to me containing Dr. Rankin’s letter and the affirmation form |
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| DALLAS—Chaplains and pastoral counselors soon will be able to seek endorsement from the Baptist General Convention of Texas. |
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| Greetings from Amarillo! It is my privilege to serve as chair of Texas Baptists Committed for 2002. |
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| S. G. Hillyer (1809-1900) was a prominent Georgia Baptist pastor and professor at Mercer University in the nineteenth century. |
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| On September 11, 2001, our nation was attacked by a radical fundamentalist cult who claim to be of the Islamic faith. |
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| The Southern Baptist Convention’s 124-year-old witness in the nation’s capital may be in jeopardy following charges that the District of Columbia Baptist Convention is out of step with the SBC’s conservative leaders. |
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| Religious fundamentalism quickly became a key element in the discussion of religion and violence Monday at an interfaith seminar hosted by the Middle East Studies Center at the University of Arkansas. |
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| If churches reduce funding to Texas Baptist ministries, as suggested in a mailing from President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, missions and ministries will suffer. Total cost could be $13,362,515. |
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| Let’s bring the Southern Baptist missions crisis into closer focus. |
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| During the years I directed the appointment process for missionary candidates at the Foreign Mission Board (now IMB) I discovered many Baptists did not understand the significant difference between a person’s confession of faith and their doctrinal statement. |
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| Within one week, the week before the Texas Baptist Evangelism Conference, I was in three churches—two celebrating ten years as two of our 2000 new church starts, and another just moving into a new building. |
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| Southern Baptist Convention leaders have been urged to “cease and desist from seeking to undermine the mission endeavors of state conventions in general and the Baptist General Convention of Texas in particular.” |
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| A friend of many years called recently and after we exchanged greetings she said, “Frank, I am on the pastor search committee for my church, and we need some help.” |
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| A pastor once said, “Worship God and use the Bible; or, worship the Bible and use God.” |
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| Eighteen prominent Texas Baptists announced a collective pledge of $1 million after the Texas Baptist Executive Board voted Feb. 26 to establish a fund to cover transition needs of any Southern Baptist missionary who refuses to sign the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message statement. |
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When we were kids we used to dare each other to eat things.
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Quotable Quote:
“Uninspired, fallible men make their own opinions tests of orthodoxy, and use their own systems, as Procrustes used his iron bedstead, to stretch and measure the consciences of all others by. Where no toleration is granted to nonconformists, either ignorance and supersition prevail, or
persecution rages.”—John Leland
from The Baptist Studies Bulletin, March 2002
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