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Recently a seminary Board of
trustees dismissed the president for "misappropriation of
anger." It is reported that "expressions of anger had "irreparably
damaged his ability" to lead the seminary.
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Wade was among the organizers
of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a denomination-like
organization formed in 1991 in protest of the Southern Baptist
Convention's leadership, and was co-chairman of the steering
committee for the CBF's 1992 general assembly, a member of
the CBF's Coordinating Council from 1991-94 and a program
leader at the 1999 CBF general assembly in Birmingham, Ala. |
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When David Currie (whom I consider to be a contemporary Baptist prophet) asked me to write an article for the Texas Baptists Committed Newsletter I gladly consented. It is my first opportunity to do so. |
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It was an honor to serve on the
Baptist General Convention of Texas' search committee for
our new executive director. |
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It has been 14 years since the
Baptist General Convention of Texas held its annual meeting
in El Paso. In 1985,
my beloved friend, Dr. Charles P. McLaughlin, had a retirement
celebration after many years as our director of State Missions. |
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Jimmy Garcia III, Ethnic
Missions Coordinator for the Baptist General Convention
of Texas, will be the speaker for the eleventh annual Texas
Baptists Committed breakfast.
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Dear Friends, Many of
you are aware of considerable changes in our
circumstances in the past year. We
feel the need to give you, our
family and friends, a detailed
explanation of what has been going on and why.
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My friend Al
Shackleford called me last week. We talk several times a year,
but generally have a conversation around July 17 each year. |
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At TBC we have
heard of fundamentalist
pastors setting the rules for the congregation and
asking long standing Sunday School teachers for their immediate
resignations (mainly women who were teaching when men happen
to be in attendance), |
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I am part of mainstream Missouri
Baptists because they
must stand up and openly resist the
misguided efforts of those in our state who,
apparently without any pang of
conscience, would impose their religious convictions
and conduct upon
the rest of us under the guise of claiming that
"it's only the way every
good Baptist thinks and acts."
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”I reach out my arms to all who care about Texas and want to do God’s work in Texas,” |