He is also a Calvinist, which is unusual for Baptists.
I don't know anything about the American Baptists but I can assure you, that the "hierarchy" stops at the Minister of the local church, within the Southern Baptist Convention.
Southern Baptists are autonomous and about half the member churches of the S.B.C. are "Calvinists", as is my church.
By Hierarchy I meant the convention and ‘disfellowshipment’ not a hierarchy like the Morg have, I am aware that it is different.
We used to go to a church that was ABC with an SBC pastor, and they weren’t Calvinists. The church was dissolved after the pastor sold it for $250,000 to an SBC church (it was worth 6 million).
I have never heard of a Baptist who believes in predestination, that is interesting.