After talking with a trustee of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and
after reading the article about the move to have the Southern Baptist Convention
(the Executive Committee) as the sole member of the corporation, I feel compelled
to write.
After talking with a trustee of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and
after reading the article about the move to have the Southern Baptist Convention
(the Executive Committee) as the sole member of the corporation, I feel compelled
to write.
While I am “in the camp” of the conservative resurgence, I feel that
the Executive Committee is in violation of Baptist polity and, equally important,
seems to have a short-sighted view of TRUST.
I view this move as an effort to gain absolute control over all our institutions
by our Executive Committee. Frankly, it smacks of paranoia.
By all means, we must be assured that only Christ-honoring, truthful and decent
persons are elected to these boards of trustees, but having elected them, let
them do the work to which they were called.
Micromanaging by the Executive Committee will not work, nor is it “the
Baptist way.”
Bobby W. Bonds, Pastor
Mt. Hope Baptist Church
Oakdale, La.