AN EXAMPLE OF WHEN WE WILL RESPOND

We will give you an example of what kinds of actions will provoke a response from Texas Baptists Committed. We will not allow fundamentalist, unfounded, attacks to go unchallenged.

Jack Chambers is a fundamentalist radio personality from Austin who also writes a newspaper column called Baptists Offerings. It is carried in several smaller community papers.

After this year’s BGCT, Jack wrote the following: “Many Baptist would be shocked to find out how their money is being used. For example, the BGCT continues to fund Baylor University, which broke away from the state convention a few years ago and where many professors teach from a secular, liberal perspective, even in the religion department. (Baylor just started its own seminary, which is apparently the new training camp for liberal Baptist preachers.)”

This is an attack on a Baptist General Convention of Texas related institution. We will not allow such attacks to go unchallenged when they are without merit. And this one is definitely without merit!

The fundamentalists took over the SBC by slandering the reputations of seminary professors. It is the same tactic. Paint everyone with the same broad brush. We must not allow this in Texas. We have more important things to do.