A new name for giving in Southern Baptist Convention?

By Norman Jameson, Baptist Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) – The irony of life in the Southern Baptist corral is that for most of the past 30 years Southern Baptists have elected to national leadership men who did not demonstrate deep-seated, heartfelt, convictional support of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Norman Jameson Editor Biblical Recorder of North CarolinaThe SBC being a convention with a majority of small churches, bivocational pastors, rural roots and minimal theological education, we’ve almost always elected men from large churches with charisma who could look sharp and speak well on the national stage and make us feel good about the Southern Baptist image.