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I think that a large portion of the delegates were from churches with young Pastors who are trained more in technique than in solid biblical studies. I don't doubt they are saved or that he is. However they were not in the battle for the life of the convention during the late '80s and '90s when the liberal faction had infiltrated the home and mission societies as well as most of the seminaries. When the battle lines were drawn over the reliability of the scriptures, the person of Jesus and other classical distinctives and a commitment to them was demanded of missionaries and professors, there was an exodus of churches, missionaries and professors and in fact, Baylor changed its governing document to become independent rather than face this commitment.

From what I have read, this new president is part of the young pastors who are more irenic and willing to compromise than take the clear stand that the past administrations have had to take to maintain the SBC distinctives. They are second generation pastors living off of the spoils of the "cleansing" wars. They are more in tune with the techniques of church growth than nurturing and equipping.

They are more in tune with the techniques of church growth than nurturing and equipping.

I was guessing this....they want to be Warren/Osteen clones with W/O type success.

It's not a bad thing if the gospel is kept true.

It strikes me that this might be a repudiation of Mohler's calvinist initiative as much as anything else. Is there any hint of that: My cousins have gone very "reformed" (one's an SBC pastor), and they seemed to indicate some internal identification of the fundamentalist with calvinism.