Texas Baptists Committed

FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS LEADERSHIP - DESERTING CHURCHES ROOTS

In this newsletter we have reprinted the famous sermon of George W. Truett, Baptists and Religious Liberty.

GOOFY WILL NOT BE INVESTING YOUR MONEY

Paul Powell, president of the SBC Annuity Board, is a former BGCT president. He is a man of unquestionable integrity.

INERRANCY: DEFINITIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Dr. James C. Denison

In an address to the 1993 statewide meeting of Texas Baptists Committed, I made the statement that “inerrancy” is a term with some eight definitions and twelve qualifications.

INERRANCY - THERE THEY GO AGAIN

The fundamentalist leadership is raising the inerrancy flag once again.

IS THERE A MIDDLE? YES!

Let us be very clear. Is there a position “in the middle?” YES! In fact, the middle is what we are advocating when it comes to BGCT relationships and the Cooperative Program.

OFFICIAL RESPONSE OF TEXAS BAPTISTS COMMITTED TO SBC DECISION TO INSTRUCT SBC AGENCIES TO ACCEPT NO FUNDS FROM CBF

This is another sad day for all Baptists, and especially Texas Baptists.

RELIGIOUS BOUNTY HUNTERS
by Mike Yaconelli

I have always believed that when a culture forgets about God, when a culture abandons its belief in God, what happens is an epidemic of immorality.

CO-CHAIR THOUGHTS FROM PHIL LINEBERGER
Sounds Like The Vatican To Me

It has been said that those who refuse to learn from history are bound to repeat it.

TEXAS BAPTISTS — REMEMBER YOUR POLITY

The Southern Baptist Convention voted to “instruct its institutions to accept no contributions given through the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.”

CO-CHAIR THOUGHTS FROM BILLY RAY PARMER
The Pendulum Stayed Put!

There is an alarming attitude going around among traditional Baptists. While this attitude is alarming, I wish it were true.

THE TRUTH COMES OUT

The following is the actual letter sent from Ollin E. Collins, a trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, to one of the past presidents of the SBC. We are printing the actual letter unedited, so that Texas Baptists may read it as written.

WHO IS ACTING LIKE BAPTISTS?

At Texas Baptists Committed, we get tired of fundamentalist leaders trying to convince Texas Baptists that all of this disagreement is between the SBC and CBF.

INTERESTING QUOTE ON FUNDAMENTALISM

“By evangelical, I do not mean fundamentalist. An evangelical is one who has a major commitment to the Bible and to people coming to Christ. It’s not pietist… Mainstream evangelicalism is more intelligent about the Bible than fundamentalism.

“Fundamentalism is a reaction against the modern world rather than a commitment to the Bible. It is a kind of retrenchment, going back into a shell, talking only to people like themselves, naming the enemy. What happens with fundamentalism is an almost total rejection of the present culture — the creation of a counterculture, really, which tries to pretend it’s pure from Scripture, but doesn’t read Scripture intelligently. Fundamentalism is basically anti-intellectual because it reacts against. As a result, the Bible becomes a magic book of proof-texts, read irrespective of its historical context.

“Mainstream evangelicalism, on the other hand, has always given final authority to the Scriptures, and engages with the ethos of the culture so it can speak meaningfully into the culture’s language, into its worldview, and into its needs.” Graham Cray, interview, reprinted by permission The Door, May/June, 1994.

ANOTHER INTERESTING QUOTE

Recently a guest columnist wrote the following in a West Texas newspaper. He was defending the current direction of the SBC.

“Finally, a word to my Southern Baptist friends. Before you let anyone encourage you to lose confidence in our Cooperative Program or in any of our agencies or institutions or in our properly elected leadership, let me share with you a word of warning that came from the lips of one of our great leaders of yesteryear, Dr. B.H. Carroll. In addressing a Baptist assembly, he said, “There is no one more dangerous to us than those who feel called to ‘Save Us.’”

B.H. Carroll was certainly right! We could have avoided all this mess if a bunch of folks had not decided in 1979 to “save us” from the bogeyman of liberalism, that did not exist. And now the trustees at Southwestern have “saved” that institution by firing Dr. Dilday. The TBC message is “the BGCT does not need this kind of saving, thank you.” Just leave us in Texas alone.