—The Southern Baptist Convention has for two decades been under "conservative" control. Yet SBC leaders are often major participants in ecumenical endeavors such as Billy Graham or Promise Keepers meetings. SBC's theology is largely fundamentalist but its practice is new evangelical, as evidenced by its Executive Committee's recent vote to affirm its mission board's participation in the ecumenical Mission America. Sword of the Lord editor Dr. Shelton Smith comments: "An SBC pastor once told me that he was 'conservative in theology but liberal in fellowship and ministry.' In many ways that is even more dangerous because it is talking one way and walking another. When men in leadership talk 'conservative' but walk 'liberal,' they mislead the sincere folks in the pews… Prayerfully we make an appeal to good, godly men: don't be ensnared by carefully crafted rhetoric appealing to loyalty to a denomination that has long since made a left turn and doesn't appear even to be thinking about turning around…" Our loyalties must be to Christ and the Bible.

CRISWELL CHURCH EXAMINES SBC TIES

CRISWELL CHURCH EXAMINES SBC TIES-First Baptist Church (Dallas), which counts Billy Graham as a member, was pastored for almost five decades by Dr. W. A. Criswell. Mac Brunson the current pastor recently presented the results of a year-long study by an FBC deacon committee (1/00 Baptist Banner). The 18-page report contains 100 documented sources linking nearly 100 Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders to the moderate/liberal Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Texas Baptists Committed, two organizations of SBC liberals/moderates opposed to the main "conservative" SBC, and a host of theologically and politically liberal groups also critical of the SBC's conservative stances on biblical and moral concerns. First Baptist-Dallas voted Nov. 17 to loosen its ties with the BGCT and join the new more conservative Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. [THE CALVARY CONTENDER VOL. XVII NO. 4 February 15, 2000]

 

 

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