Southern Baptist???
Services were held in Methodist church.
They were members of the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains Georgia.
This Methodist Church is in Atlanta.
Who knows why that particular church was chosen if it’s not one of their own denomination.
But as far as I know, the Carters were never Methodist, so maybe there’s some other connection to this Methodist Church and that’s why it was held there
They left the SBC many years ago because their beliefs were not in line with the Southern Baptist statements of faith.
“I have been disappointed and feel excluded by the adoption of policies and an increasingly rigid Southern Baptist Convention creed, including some provisions that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith,” he wrote, noting issues like biblical inerrancy and the exclusion of women from being pastors.
Since that time, President Carter has continued to find himself in the midst of theological conversation via cautionary blog posts by Mohler, as an advocate for left-leaning Christianity (2004), as an opponent to Christian fundamentalism (2005), for his belief of salvation outside of Christ