conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

I must have lied.

So, in the last post I said that I was done beating the Baptist horse, but it appears that I am not. This post is not so much on the goings on in North Carolina, but about the goings on in the ABC in general.

Bryan has posted a couple (1, 2) of updates about what is going on in the ABC right now. He says something amazing about what it means to be an evangelical. "Evangelical Christians should be individuals who care about themselves last. People who care about truth so much that they're willing to make the investment necessary to really see that truth break in on lives, more than a slogan ever can."

I much confess some level of cynicism mixed with apathy about it all. I am old enough to recall the mess that the SBC went through and continues to go through. I remember when my Baptist minister grandfather would bemoan the politics of the day.

I was at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond the second year it was in existance ('92-'93). I left before the end of my first year of the MDiv program. I was tired walking in. The fighting and wrangling in the "liberal haven" was more than I could handle. How people managed the politics/programs at Southern and other institutions, I really cannot say. I think of myself as pretty thick-skinned. Those places would have driven me nuts. BTSR is a good school. It was then as well. I just did not have the stomach for it.

So here we are at the advent of another change in Baptist institutional life. My Baptist kin are struggling with the issues at hand. I am struggling. Pray for us.

Posted by tripp at May 18, 2005 01:16 PM