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"...because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together — by trade they were tentmakers." Acts 18:3. Tentmaker is a title taken by bi-vocational pastors. As such, I am both a pastor and a project manager. I am a pastor of a local congregation of moderate, accepting and affirming people who worship in the Baptist tradition. We call our church "Hope Memorial Baptist" and we are about 40 in number. I am also a project manager of major construction projects for the State of Georgia. My home and church is in rural Coweta County, between Peachtree City and Newnan, with a mailing address of Sharpsburg, Georgia.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Southern Baptists turn on each other

'Since all the liberals are gone, conservative crusaders' challenge fellow conservatives
By Rachel Zoll, Associated Press
After purging liberals from their ranks, Southern Baptist conservatives who won control of their denomination are now taking aim at each other.


You can read the rest of this article here by looking for the title in the "Special Features in the Online Edition" section.

Yes, Virginia, there is a God!

Here's more:
Just two years earlier, a leading Baptist conservative had warned about the very infighting that Burleson is describing. The Rev. Morris Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, said conservatives must realize they have won the battle with liberals over biblical inerrancy and should now stop fighting.

"I am concerned now that we have affirmed by vigorous endeavor that Southern Baptists are people of the Book, that we will develop a censorious, exclusivistic, intolerant spirit," he said, in a speech to the denomination's annual meeting. "If this occurs, we will be the poorer for it."

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