IT'S UP TO YOU! Who is the best partner for your church? BGCT or SBTC?

Brochure comparing the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT)
with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC)
Please print it, and distribute it as needed.

Copies - printed on durable glossy cardstock - are also available by mail;
just email bjones@txbc.org, or call Bill Jones at 214-986-7136,
and request however many you need.

TBC Help for Pastor Search Committees packet

• Memo to Pastor Search Committees, by David R. Currie
• An Open Letter to Baptist Pastor Search Committees, by Foy Valentine
• Finding the Right Pastor for Your Church: Ideas for Search Committees, by Bill Bruster
• Calling a Servant Leader as Pastor, by Mike Caraway
• Church Takeovers: A True Virginia Baptist Story, from the Baptist General Association of Virginia & Virginia Baptists Committed

from the Baptist Standard of February 23, 2000:
a series of articles taking an in-depth look at documents criticizing the BGCT - circulated by the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention - and the person who prepared most of them, a Baptist layman from Missouri

• Letter from Committee on Baptist Integrity, March 15, 2000, introducing a reprint of these articles
• EDITORIAL: Mountain of facts, molehill of truth, by Marv Knox
• The preacher, the Wiccan priest and the pamphlet
• Attorney advises caution in publishing 'research,' by Mark Wingfield
• Claims of SBTC literature don't match well-documented facts, by Mark Wingfield
• Is it guilt by association or just the facts? by Mark Wingfield
• Obscure laymen with a cause gain influence in churches, by Mark Wingfield

from the Baptist Standard of August 27, 2001:
a series of articles providing advice for pastor search committees

• Suggestions for search committees
• Healthy pastor search process should take inward look as well, by Mark Wingfield
• Pastor searches packed with perils, by Mark Wingfield
• Settle denominational identity before calling a pastor, Daehnert advises, by Mark Wingfield

from the BGCT Office of Communications:
a series of articles, collectively titled "For Your Information," stating the BGCT attitude toward specific issues & concerns

• The BGCT Commitment to the Bible
• The BGCT and Bible Study Literature
• The BGCT and Theological Education
• BGCT Relationship with Other Baptist Entities
• BGCT Opposition to Abortion
• BGCT Opposition to Homosexuality