[flynmudd]

I certainly hope the SBC stays afloat unlike that other denomination that has split. Southern Baptists are a hardy lot and are a lot like Texans, rarely take crap. The way the left is going “religious” is by forming their own church that practices whatever makes you FEEL good can’t be bad. I won’t be left behind on the day of reckoning, I’m more than ready to go to Heaven. It’s already hellish here on earth.

[will of the people]

>>I won’t be left behind on the day of reckoning,

I’m pretty sure no one escapes the day of reckoning

>>I’m more than ready to go to Heaven. It’s already hellish here on earth.

Maybe it would be better if you were more than ready to be light in the darkness, than take the view that since you’re ready let’s end the whole thing and get me out of here. The whole “I’m saved- you can go to Hell” attitude is what a lot of people are trying to distance themselves from.

[Between the Lines]

I am certain that the SBC will be around for some time to come. The question seems to be just how big a tent the SBC will be. There seems to be a movement that wishes that all churches affiliated with the SBC fit neatly within a certain mold. Some think that Southern Baptist is a denomination. Baptist is a denomination, Southern Baptist is a confederation if you will, of like minded churches.

I was very surprised to learn from this article that everything I have been told about the emergent church is not true. This church holds to the Baptist Faith & Message 2000. That in my opinion makes them more like us than not.

What is so bad about them that makes some wish to drive them out? And what is so bad about us that they share our doctrine, yet choose not to be called Southern Baptists?