Thursday, June 03, 2010

Great Blog Post

"Third Generation Conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention" by Steve McKinion

I just found this blog from February by a well-respected professor at SEBTS, where I attended. He explains exactly how I feel about the situation of the SBC and the generational divide that exists among the leadership of our churches. Let it be known that I do respect and honor our SBC elder pastors and denominational leaders. I do believe that we all can work together. We just have to be able to embrace the generational diversity that exists as healthy. It takes all kinds of churches and all kinds of leaders to reach all kinds of people. Apologies go out to my blog readers who aren't real interested in the SBC situation right now. As we get ready for the Annual Meeting in 2 weeks, it has caused some real soul searching for me.

1 comment:

Steve said...

At 48 I guess I'm too old to fit as a 3rd Generation Conservative, but your "guest blogger" makes good sense. I think another point to be made is that at least SOME of the receptivity to listen to what he calls 3rd Generation Conservatives is because some 2nd Generation Conservatives and those that followed decided denominations were intractible and just left and went where they found authentic faith.....often outside the SBC. The discussions now being held are, at least in part I think, possible because some slightly older churches and leaders outside or just nominally part of conservative denominations kind of blew up and experienced a lot of growth...often siphoning away commited and serving Christians from SBC churches.