The problem with Baptists is that they spend very little time on good, solid doctrinal study.
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You must know a very, very different breed of Baptist than I do—especially compared to those on the mission field.
It's a generalization. Certainly there are great Baptists today like John MacArthur and John Piper who are very well grounded in the word. Then who can forget the great Baptists of the past; Matthew Henry, John Gill, Charles Spurgeon, etc.?
But an inherent problem in Baptist church structure is they tend not to be focus on theology. They have 6 or 7 major statements that they adhered to and that's it. Consequently you have people like Rick Warren and John Piper being lumped together in the same group.
I'm not being unkind. This is documented and acknowledged to be a problem among the Southern Baptists. They have acknowledged that for years they've spent too much time focusing on evangelism and not enough time on theology. I posted an article on this quite a while ago (probably a year or two). The problem is not emphasizing doctrine. Here is another article on the matter and it's about half way down, but this isn't a secret. A simple Google will pull up all sorts of these articles.