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	Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
		The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, a group of churches that five years ago broke away from the Baptist General Convention of Texas seeking stronger ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, is reaching out to non-Southern Baptists as well.
		The 450-church BMA of Texas approved a recommendation at its annual meeting Nov. 10-12 allowing the college to “partner” with the Southern Baptist Convention of Texas “as a resource for their educational needs,” according to a news report on the BMA’s Web site.
		The Baptist Missionary Association of America, of which the BMA of Texas is a part, subsequently broke off of the American Baptist Association in 1950, and represents a more moderate form of Landmarkism, according to historian Leon McBeth.
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=3535 (534 words)

	Texas Baptists split - conservative Baptists leave Baptist General Convention of Texas, form Southern Baptists of Texas ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The SBT attended the BGCT meeting on November 9, then broke away the next day to form a separate state convention that supporters contend will be more loyal to the fundamentalist-dominated Southern Baptist Convention.
		Conservative Texas Baptists have repeatedly criticized the Texas convention for not affirming the SBC'S rightward shill.
		The Baptist General Convention of Texas, with 2.7 million members, is the largest state convention in the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant body.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_34_115/ai_53460225 (726 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Southern Baptists
		Baptists in the South were embracing slavery because it was the core of their social and economic order.
		Baptists of the North were saying that God would not condone treating one race as superior to another while Southerners said that God intended for races to be separate.
		Southern Baptists are evangelical and view the Bible as their ultimate authority in shaping their lives.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/sbaptists.html (4685 words)

	Baptists - religions, denominations, cults, sects and related issues
		Baptists feel that infants have no comprehension of repentance and faith; consequently, they reserve the ordinance until a time of understanding (usually early teenage years and after), when joining the church will be by personal choice and therefore more meaningful.
		Baptists believe in the autonomy of the local church, which is the key unit in Baptist polity.
		Baptists argue that the self-government of the local church preserves the spirit of democracy, encourages the participation of lay persons in the church, and permits a wide range of theological expression.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /b89.html (1787 words)

	Texas Baptists face the sex wars
		Texas is one of the last fronts in the 19-year civil war in the 16-million-member Southern Baptist Convention.
		The Southern Baptist right - which is weak in Texas, but runs the national body - remains united on social issues and committed to "biblical inerrancy," the belief that the Bible is without errors of any kind.
		The Texas Baptist newspaper called this "despicable demagoguery" and noted that conservatives haven't drawn similar conclusions from news accounts of scandals in their own camp.
	tmatt.gospelcom.net /column/1998/12/02 (699 words)

	Texas First, Texas Only - Not the Spirit of Southern Baptists in Texas - Baptist2Baptist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Incidentally, Baptist leaders in California and New York are challenging their constituencies to give a larger, not smaller, percentage to the Southern Baptist portion of the Cooperative Program.
		Southern Baptists from all over the country are giving sacrificially to train and support ministers and missionaries regardless of which state they call home.
		The ministries performed by the national and international agencies of the Southern Baptist Convention are second to none and depend on the faithful support of Southern Baptist churches all over the nation, especially those in Texas.
	www.baptist2baptist.net /b2barticle.asp?ID=56 (1548 words)

	Fewer Southern Baptists
		Conservatives have expressed frustration that the Texas convention has not affirmed the theological position of the Southern Baptist Convention and fear that it may be preparing to break its ties to the national group.
		The Baptist General Convention of Texas is openly discussing a break with the national body, which this month rewrote its official statement of faith to disallow female pastors and two years ago called for a wife to "submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband."
		Texas Baptists also gave final approval to a change in their rules that will open leadership roles to representatives of out-of-state churches – a decision that some believe will move the state convention one step closer to creating a new national denomination.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/baptist_fewerSBC.html (9508 words)

	Southern Baptists- A History of Controversy
		Baptists in the South were embracing slavery because it was the core of their social and economic order.
		Baptists of the North were saying that God would not condone treating one race as superior to another while Southerners said that God intended for races to be separate.
		This controversy began to unfold within the Southern Baptist Convention during the late 1970's and continued to dominate the denomination's attention for the balance of the century.
	www.angelfire.com /al4/progressivejws.html/X_SouthernBapists.html (2588 words)

	Texas Baptists - Hitherto and Henceforth
		The total offerings by Texas Baptists for all purposes in 1997 was $97.9 million and is estimated to be $98.3 million for 1998 —; very close to $100 million per year at this point in our history.
		Texas Baptists have almost 60% as much money available to us as that available to the SBC whose total budget for 1999, including capital needs projects will be about $164 million — and our financial resources are six to seven times that of the CBF with a total budget for 1998-99 of $14.8 million.
		We could contract with Baptist university seminaries for the preparation of those pastors and church staff members we seek for various ministries at much less expense than would be incurred in establishing and operating a group of Baptist Convention of the Americas seminaries.
	www.txbc.org /1998Journals/Dec98Jan99/Dec98reynolds.htm (2245 words)

	Coming together, coming apart - moderate baptists rejecting Southern Baptist Convention - Abstract Christian Century - ...
		Faculty members at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth were told that since the school's charter requires conformity to the denomination's confession of faith, they would be expected to confirm their support for the revised document.
		Responding to SBC statements on the role of women, the Texas messengers passed a resolution asserting the "biblical equality" of men and women in the family relationship, thereby challenging and essentially rejecting the denomination's statement.
		Calling themselves "the real Texas Baptists," the leaders of the new convention affirmed their loyalty to the SBC and attacked the Baptist General Convention for abandoning its long relationship with the denomination.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_35_115/ai_53475477 (738 words)

	Southern Baptists of Texas look to November
		FORT WORTHThe Southern Baptists of Texas convention will hold its constitutional convention the afternoon and evening of Nov. 10 in Houston.
		Seaborn said he and the other SBT officers were authorized by the SBT board of directors April 24 to name a committee to plan for the new convention.
		Featured speaker was Paige Patterson, president of Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., who is expected to be nominated for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention in June in Salt Lake City.
	www.baptiststandard.com /1998/5_6/pages/sbt.html (284 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . NEWS . Texas Baptist Convention . November 3, 2000 \| PBS
		CLYDE GLAZENER (President, Texas Baptist Convention): Jesus is not pleased today by religious folks who become thought police, or their followers, and dictate their belief patterns, even if they claim to be evangelicals.
		Baptists do not practice infant baptism, because they think each person should be old enough to make his or her own faith decision.
		The Southern Baptists Convention will issue their resolutions, pass their motions, and make headlines, but it will be more and more clear that they do not speak for all, even all Southern Baptists as Baptists align themselves with a variety of other organizations.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week410/news.html (729 words)

	News from Agape Press
		(AgapePress) - The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention has unanimously passed a resolution encouraging Christian parents to look into whether their local public schools are involved in homosexual activism and, where this is the case, to pursue alternative choices for their children's education.
		Gary Ledbetter, a spokesman for the Texas Convention, says the public school resolution is similar to one passed last summer at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
		The Texas Southern Baptist feels the resolution was successful because Christian parents and churches are feeling increasingly threatened by what is being taught in public schools and are looking for ways to fight back.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/11/22005a.asp (375 words)

	A Report on the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Texas Baptist was the newsletter of the group Baptists with a Mission, which merged with the Southern Baptists of Texas in 1996.
		Baptists cherish and defend religious liberty, and deny the right of any secular or religious authority to impose a confession of faith upon a church or body of churches.
		In the June 2000 Southern Baptist Texan, the SBTC discussed salary figures reiterating a commitment to “avoid building a bureaucracy.” In 1999 salaries were 20.2% of the in-state budget, with 24.2% expected for 2000, both figures being slightly over budget for the respective budget year.
	pages.prodigy.net /wrjohnston/baptist/SBTCreport.html (16117 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Ekletos has a female senior pastor, while the Southern Baptist Church's position on women in ministry stipulates that women "participate equally with men in the priesthood of all believers" but "pastoral leadership is assigned to men." Also, the Ekletos website says that church welcomes and affirms homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgendered people.
		Southern Baptists officially affirm that "God's plan for marriage and sexual intimacy" is "one man, and one woman, for life" and that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin and therefore "not a 'valid alternative lifestyle.'"
		Stewart says the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention might renew its association with Faith Harbour if the church's staff agree to follow the theological guidelines of the denomination.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/1/242006d.asp (450 words)

	Baptist Faith and Information
		On June 14, 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a revised summary of the Southern Baptist faith.
		The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (SBHLA) is a research center for the study of Baptist history and life.
		Founded in November of 1998, the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention established missions and evangelism as the major emphasis.
	freedomusa.4mg.com /favorite_links.html (197 words)

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		"Historic Baptist polity emphasizes the decisive influence of the SBC over its entities through duly elected Trustees as opposed to direct control of the entities by the convention itself," the seminary's paper states.
		The first annual convention of the Southern Baptists was held in 1845.
		Tammi Ledbetter - Southern Baptists of Texas Convention - SBC DALLAS - The proud parents of a newborn listen intently as the pastor prays for their commitment to raise their first child in the admonition of the Lord.
	www.lycos.com /info/southern-baptist-convention--southern-baptists.html?page=2 (445 words)

	Southern Baptists of Texas celebrate doubling of churches, nearly tripled CP - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--One thousand and four messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention met in Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth Oct. 29-30, celebrating a year in which the number of affiliated churches more than doubled and Cooperative Program giving is projected to nearly triple.
		The budget adopted by the Baptist General Convention of Texas last year called for the redirection of $5.3 million, significantly reducing funding for the SBC seminaries, defunding the ERLC and giving a token amount to the SBC Executive Committee.
		Mac Brunson, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, was selected to preach at the 2002 SBTC meeting in Houston to be held Oct. 28-29 at the Astro Arena.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=12061 (1350 words)

	Conservative Baptists consider split from Texas convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paul Pressler called for Southern Baptists of Texas to remain in the BGCT at least long enough to head off a proposal that would require churches to contribute to the Texas convention in order to send more than two messengers to its annual meeting.
		Outgoing Texas president Charles Wade appealed to Southern Baptist leaders "not to chide Texas Baptists for our determination to give our churches and their leaders freedom to make the decisions they believe are best for them in reaching out to do missions work in the world."
		The opposed changes include affirming the Texas convention's "autonomy" and authorizing Texas Baptists to appoint missionaries, offer new options for theological education, publish their own Sunday school literature and create mission partnerships with SBC and non-SBC groups.
	lubbockonline.com /news/111597/052-8181.htm (601 words)

	Conservative Baptists consider split from Texas convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Paul Pressler called for Southern Baptists of Texas to remain in the BGCT at least long enough to head off a proposal that would require churches to contribute to the Texas convention in order to send more than two messengers to its annual meeting.
		Seaborn blamed the growing division in Texas on new proposals presented by the Effectiveness and Efficiency Committee and approved by Texas Baptists, despite opposition from conservatives.
		The opposed changes include affirming the Texas convention's "autonomy" and authorizing Texas Baptists to appoint missionaries, offer new options for theological education, publish their own Sunday school literature and create mission partnerships with SBC and non-SBC groups.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/111597/052-8181.htm (601 words)

	Emily hopscotches through Mexico; misses Texas
		GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) — With Texas spared from serious damage when Hurricane Emily struck the northeast Mexican coast July 20, Southern Baptists of Texas Convention disaster relief workers are preparing to deliver non-perishable food staples to storm-ravaged areas 70-80 miles south of the Rio Grande, said Bill Davenport, state director of SBTC disaster relief.
		A Southern Baptist assessment team that included representatives from the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention ventured into Mexico July 23 to see damaged areas and to talk with Southern Baptist missionaries there.
		Emily produced nothing more than a mid-grade tropical storm along the Texas side of the Rio Grande Valley, but 70-80 miles south into Mexico, the hurricane was a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds that struck harshly at fishing villages on the northeast Mexican coast and downed power lines and water-pumping windmills farther inland.
	www.floridabaptistwitness.com /4627.article (448 words)

	The Fire Ant Gazette - A Midland, Texas Blog \| "Southern Baptists and Abortion"
		Be it further RESOLVED, That we call upon Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.
		The last such resolution, in June, 2003 brought the matter to closure, in effect formalizing what most (OK...that is legitimately subject to debate on a global basis, but it applies to everyone I know) Southern Baptists already presumed and hoped their denomination's stance to be.
		I haven't been a Southern Baptist for about 7 years, and it actually is sort of comforting to be out of the loop.
	www.ericsiegmund.com /fireant/archivesmt/000514.html (1017 words)

	Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Resolutions on Abortion
		WHEREAS, Texas Southern Baptists are entrusted by God with the responsibility of declaring His moral standard as a foundation to the good news of forgiveness and healing in Christ;
		Be it therefore RESOLVED that we, the messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention affirm President Bush for preventing future murder for the sake of scientific research; and
		Be it therefore RESOLVED, that we, the messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, meeting in Houston, TX, October 28-29, 2002, affirm the biblical teaching that God is the author of life and that human life begins at conception (Psalm 51:5; Psalm 139:14-16; Jeremiah 1:5); and
	www.johnstonsarchive.net /baptist/sbtcabres.html (1793 words)

	TEXAS SOUTHERN BAPTISTS EVICT CHURCH FOR ORDAINING HOMO DEACON
		The University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, ordained the homosexual deacon, Hans Venable, in 1995.
		Later that same year the University Baptist Church was removed from the local Southern Baptist association, but almost three years passed before action was taken at the state level.
		He described the church as an "enthusiastic contributing supporter" of BGCT and Southern Baptist mission causes (The Baptist Standard, Feb. 11, 1998).
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/texassouthern.htm (906 words)

	Southern Baptists building homes, relationships in war-torn Lebanon - International Mission Board, SBC
		Now, more help is on the way thanks to a pioneering team of volunteers led by the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
		Andrew Sanders, Southern* Baptist disaster-relief coordinator and operations manager in Lebanon, explained the need for aid is greater in the south because most relief organizations are focused on Beirut, leaving many of Lebanon's smaller cities to fend for themselves.
		Southern Baptists interested in volunteering for a disaster-relief trip to Lebanon can learn more by e-mailing Jim Richardson at jrichardson@sbtexas.com.
	www.imb.org /core/story.asp?storyID=4601 (1574 words)

	Texas Baptist Men approve relationship with Southern Baptists of Texas Convention - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If approved, Texas Baptist Men will become one of the many avenues available for the 1,258 SBTC churches to be active in missions initiatives.
		The resolution and faith statement offered by Brian Goodland of Gordon underscores a commitment to assist Texas Baptist churches as they lead their men in a missions and ministry lifestyle as mandated in the Bible.
		In 2000 Richards invited institutions built by Texas Baptists to establish fraternal relationships with the new state convention.
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=15252 (980 words)

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