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LOL!! For that matter, it may not be "honorary" at all.

I think that attending that first baby-splashing event could endanger your official status. [Not that I'm interested in ecumenical dialogue on that topic.]

For all I know, I am still on the Membership Rolls of a certain little 22,000-member Independent Baptist Church. It's sorta like being a "cradle Catholic", I think -- I never formally requested to be taken off the Rolls, so....

Well, now, that church might not be quite fundamental enough or 'independent' enough for some purists who attend other IFB churches. After all, they do occasionally say something nice about the SBC. It's brazen ecumenism!

In some of these circles, they talk about the Southern Baptist Conference as though it's the church of Rome. It's quite bizarre actually.

I think that attending that first baby-splashing event could endanger your official status.

By rights, it probably should. (grin) And actually, I'm pretty sure that registering Membership at any other local church (Baptist, Presby, whatever) generally terminates one's Membership and Lay Obligations to the former congregation; so, in any event, according to Canon Law I'm no longer a Baptist.

However, TRBC is not exactly famous for policing their membership Rolls all that rigorously... so I may still yet be (on paper) one of Jerry's Kids, for all I know.