My friend Stephanie believes that the foment of controversy over the Doctrines of Grace will eventually split the Southern Baptist Convention, possibly within the next ten years.
What do you think?
Southern Baptist seams tearing?
June 15th, 2006 | The Church, Theology
4 comments ↓
I don’t really see a split coming from this issue. I think the more likely scenario is a split between the conservative/fundamentalists and the moderates. I could be wrong.
speaking of denominations falling…the pcusa could be going down the tubes soon. Check more out here
http://theologica.blogspot.com/2006/06/beginning-of-end-of-pcusa.html
Nah, I don’t see a split. The calvinists will just move on … their theology will naturally result in the elevation of the preached Word over the current Southern Baptist reliance on ‘personality’ based church growth. Church growth oriented churches, through manipulation and entertainment, will attract some sheep and lots of goats. So calvinistic churches, providing less ‘entertainment’, will attract smaller crowds. A realistic calvinist will see that in the SBC bigger churches have a greater vote. Calvinist churches, who focus on feeding the sheep, will naturally be smaller and not likely to gain enough power in the convention to support meaningful reform.
Well, it’s one of the reasons GBC split… so, I say it’s DEFINITELY possible.
Leave a Comment