I just finished reading this post regarding some current controversy within the SBC/IMB and how the ever-expanding blogosphere has impacted some issues within this church convention.
I felt extremely disappointed in the SBC after reading all of this, and frankly very glad that our church participates only minimally with the convention. Perhaps focusing on the church depicted in the Bible would help these gentlemen realign their motives and decisions regarding international missions/house churches to that which their convention controversially deems inherent.
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In the link you put in this posting there is a link to a posting by Joel Rainey that I felt made some really good points. Maybe the best way to make the necessary changes in the Southern Baptist Convention is to be a part of the solution instead of abandoning the convention all together, as many have done. The IMB does some amazing things and these new rulings concerning baptism and speaking in tongues can be reversed. For that to happen it takes action. I pray that God will raise up a new generation of leaders who are willing to reform the Southern Baptist Convention.
Thanks for your comment, anonymous. It is appreciated. In response I will say that I personally have no strong affilation to the SBC, or any other church deonomination. I too hope that the SBC would be governed by a new gneration of leaders who take a closer examination of the Bible when making man-made rules concerning what they deem as "right."
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