Thanks Kamilla ,
I hadn't heard about the Kentucky situation. That's interesting as I have relatives in KY. There seems to be a growing number of churches and state baptist associations that are dissenting from the SBC's increasingly conservative positions.
I was mistaken about the SBC website. I just visited the site and they do have the full text of their June 14 revised Faith and Message statement.
http://sbc.net/default.asp?url=bfam_2000.html
It's been a while since I last visited the site. Perhaps the site was updated or perhaps I just overlooked it.
Brent
--- "Kamilla ludwig" <kamillal@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>Brent,
>
>You might have more success getting information from the Cooperative Baptist
>Fellowship. In my experience, the SBC official channels won't be very
>forthcoming.
>
>The Texas controversy is really an old controversy (and the SBC organization
>in Kentucky is in a similar situation). This move would just make official
>what is already happening in reality. They are already sending far less
>money than they used to. And it's not just churches that are leaving.
>Faculty are leaving because they are being forced to sign a revised
>statement of faith, even tenured faculty! There is at least one tenured
>professor from the SBC seminary in Texas wo took early retirement rather
>than sign the revised statement which violated his own beliefs.
>
>Kamilla
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