ANOTHER INTERESTING QUOTE FROM THE BGCT ANNUAL MEETING

“Bill Moyers is just the kind of liberal we’re trying to get away from,” said J. Walter Carpenter, editor of Plumbline, a conservative publication of Southern Baptists of Texas. Referring to Genesis, Mr. Moyers 10 week PBS series on the Bible’s first book, Mr. Carpenter said: “He’s trying to distort the Word of God. I watched some of it, but I had to keep running to the bathroom to throw up.” quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Wednesday, November 13.

And Another...

“For Baptists of our stripe, for Texas Baptists Committed, the separation of church and state encourages neither animosity nor favoritism. America can survive without the Southern Baptist Convention but democracy is finished without the love of liberty by Baptists who know the price of freedom. Your witness goes beyond politics and power to the love of liberty.” Bill Moyers, speaking to TBC annual breakfast Tuesday morning

And Another...

“What we are in Texas are Baptists… free and faithful. We are free of all denominational control of the local church. The denomination, whether SBC or BGCT, has no right to tell any church how they must spend their dollars—not even their mission dollars. The denomination’s job is to help the churches do what the churches believe to be right. The churches do not exist to help the denomination. The denomination exists to help the churches succeed.” Charles Wade, BGCT president, in his President’s Address Monday evening “Texas Baptists have risen among the strife to do something that many state convention factions have been unable to do: maintain our commitment to missions and to maintain our Baptist principles. My exhortation to all of us is to remain committed to the Baptist General Convention of Texas and its long tradition. There is power and strength in our lengthy history and tradition as we see a vision and a new day.”

Robert Sloan, Baylor University president, speaking at Truett Seminary dinner Monday evening

February 1997