----- Original Message -----
From: Brent Foster <bdfoster@shrinkweb.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: Southern Baptist controversy
> Howdy
> Is anyone familiar with the ongoing controversies in the Southern Baptist
Convention? Here's an article with some of the latest:
>
> http://www.dallasnews.com/religion/203125_BC-TX--BAPTIST.html
>
> I'm a member of a SB church and of course very interested in this issue.
I've been following the story for a few months >now. The current controversy
appears to have stemmed from a change in platform adopted at the SBC's anual
meeting >last summer, reportedly favoring literalism and prohibiting women
pastors. But I havn't been able to find any coverage >of the actual meeting
or platform statement, just the fallout from it, which included Jimmy
Carter's disassociation from >the SBC. The SBC's web site has no information
about it, and I would bet that most Southern Baptists havn't even >heard
about the controversy. I would sure like to find a copy of any official
statement made by the SBC on this. Can >anyone >on this list help? Any other
Southern Baptists on the list?
From the Statement of Faith. The Portion that is in the news a lot.
>"The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created
in God's image. The marriage >relationship models the way God relates to His
people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He >has
the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his
family. A wife is to submit herself graciously >to the servant leadership of
her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
She, being in >the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has
the God-given responsibility to respect her husband >and to serve as his
helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation."
Like this is a new idea?
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