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FORMER MISSIONARY RESPONDS T0 CRITICISM OF PARKS
By
Dean Dickens
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| In reading that Dr. Keith
Parks had agreed to share with a Missouri group his insight
and experience about the SBC changes, I was both surprised
and appreciative.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters
in Christ, These are exciting days for Texas Baptists. Our
state's population is projected to reach 23 million within
the next ten years, and Texas continues to grow increasingly
multi-ethnic, urban and unchurched.
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By
Robert Parham
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| The Baptist Press
story about Al Shackleford's death in a car accident
gave two short sentences to the emotional events surrounding
his termination 10 years ago by the Southern Baptist Convention's
Executive Committee.
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was Paul's position that the way of grace and the way of law
were mutually exclusive. |
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| As a pastor for nearly 15 years, I cooperated
with several associations in both rural and city settings. |
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| DALLAS - A Texas Baptist committee
studying theological education will recommend that the Baptist
General Convention of Texas dramatically change the way it
funds Southern Baptist Convention and BGCT seminaries. |
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| I am honored to be one
of the three co-chairs of Texas Baptists Committed.
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| I'm not a Texan. I've been a
Baptist pastor for 50+ years, but I've never even preached
a sermon in Texas. But I am a strong supporter of Texas Baptists
Committed. |
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| Last week, I set forth the concerns
I have about the new Baptist Faith & Message being used
as a creed to control and manage the thinking of Baptists. |
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| Phil Lineberger, pastor of Williams
Trace Baptist Church in Sugarland, Texas, will be the speaker
for the twelfth annual Texas Baptists Committed breakfast. |
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| Shrewd politicians and power-hungry
people know: political power does not require a majority vote.
Democratic organizations are especially vulnerable to takeovers. |
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No one was more surprised
than I to find my young pastor's remarks the focus of attention
in June at the Southern Baptist Convention, which met in
Orlando.
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| North Carolina Baptist churches
are responding in various ways to revisions to the Southern
Baptist Convention's (SBC) Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M). |
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| Those who support the BGCT should
come to the annual meeting of the BGCT, October 30-31, in
Corpus Christi to express their support of the theological
education study committee's recommendations. |
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| DALLAS (ABP) Texas Baptists last
year gave three-and-a-half times more funds to the Southern
Baptist Convention-owned Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
than to their own George W. Truett Theological Seminary at
Baylor University. |
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| In
recent years, much has been said and written about the Baptist
Faith & Message and the recent changes made in that historical,
confessional document. Little has been said about Baptist
faith & practice. What we do overshadows what we say. |
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| "When a Christian sins,
God has four steps he can take that person through, Rogers
said: |
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| As I have taken on this
new responsibility, many people have asked, "why do we need
another Baptist organization in Georgia?" I have three responses: |
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| This has been a wonderful weekend. Following the remarkable addresses we've heard, I feel a bit like the flea in the Russian parable who rode into town on the nose of the ox and proclaimed, "We've been plowing." Said another way, I feel like a lion in a den of Daniels. |
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