Help for Pastor Search Committees from the
Texas Baptists Committed packet
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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