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  • Power Play? Board boots Baptist pastor in flap over speaking in tongues

    02/04/2006 2:44:05 AM PST · by WKB · 255 replies · 2,281+ views
    Journal Now.com ^ | Saturday, February 4, 2006 | By Greg Horton
    ENID, Okla. A Southern Baptist pastor being removed from a national board governing worldwide evangelism says he doesn't speak in tongues himself but is defending missionaries who do to keep the denomination "broad in our cooperation." The Rev. Wade Burleson, the senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, said that the board of trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board wants him to be removed because of his criticism of a policy change enacted by the IMB in November 2005. It stated that any candidate speaking in tongues, even privately, "has eliminated himself or herself from being...