Posted on 01/30/2007 5:11:26 AM PST by SJackson
These guys know no standard of low, do they? The bottom always seems to get lower, yet, when they are involved!
Bill Underwood is a former business litigation lawyer from Dallas that left his practice to teach at Baylor University. He helped shepherd the University through tough times related to their basketball program. A good guy, but tough and no-nonsense. He used to be called "Undertaker" for his business suits and cool demeanor in class.
BTTT.
Yet another UN-baptist Baptist Ping.
I am sure that what with BIll Clinton's faithful church attendance and exemplary Christian life, that he is just eactly the one most suitable to read the Southern Baptists their rights. Besides which he is aided in this by that shining light of international diplomacy, Jimmy Carter. This seems to me to be an unbeatable team. Look out, Rev. Stanley!!
Underwood was brought in to dismantle President Sloane's vision to make Baylor the foremost evangelical university in America. Sloane was gathering academics committed to that vision and it upset the liberals on the Board of Trustees. Underwood has found like minded people in Clinton/Carter.
If that old-time religion has such a bad rep, why are evangelical and charismatic churches growing, while the old-line, liberal Protestant denominations continue their 30-year decline?
Exactly, you can't pass your deeply held convictions on to the next generation if you don't have any.
There is another like-minded movement (snake with a similar goal and Purpose) afoot in the church and its leader, at a Pew Forum on mega-churches, has also stated that "fundamentalism", including Christian fundamentalism, is the enemy of the 21st century. This leader is also concentrating on the social gospel...
...that leader's name is Rick Warren.
So can we assume they favor the use of DDT?
...that leader's name is Rick Warren.
I don't know. Rick Warren seems mostly like a fad, running out of sequels. What's left, The Purpose Driven Sunday School?
If you've got any links, please post them.
The Southern Baptists are one of the only protestant denominations these days having lots of children. The Methodists, Presbyterian, Episcopals, etc are not procreating at the same levels. In the liberal sectors having two kids is having a large family; having more you run the risk of being labeled a "breeder" and being anti-environment among other things. To remain liberal lap-dogs like the main-line churches have become, you cannot have more than to kids. Folks, forcing (key word here) families to remain at two kids is not replacement level, it is not even zero growth. It is negative growth.
The other reason mainstream churches are losing members is the fact that they offer nothing but the "I'm ok - you're ok" philosophy and everything is permissible. The liberal denominations are turning out totally licentious youths who think, "well, if I can find the truth in myself, why do I need church?"
Carter and Clinton are creating what will eventually be considered the real Souther Baptist denomination. The conservative SBC will be considered renegade and be looked at even lower in the eyes of liberals if that is possible.
I was just going to post this if it wasn't posted already. Don Feder is such a talented writer, and he really hit this one out of the park. I am extremely grateful for Don Feder. He is one of my favorites.
I should have checked my pings earlier. This is a great column. Thanks for the ping to it.
But Warren, like Clinton/Carter, takes a "softer", more "appealing" approach to the gospel, doctrine, preaching, fundamentalism than does the SBC leadership.
I am sure that the Clinton/Carter plan will work well with Warren's global P.E.A.C.E. Plan. Warren says that he will work with Muslims, Hindus and non-Christians in order to carry out his P.E.A.C.E. Plan (forget Scripture, sound doctrine and salvation through Christ...we've got AIDS, poverty, lack of education, "spiritual emptiness" (whatever that is) injustice, egotistical leadership and etc. to cure! Lets partner together and get it done).
Listen to what Clinton/Carter and Warren are saying...They sound very, very similar.
These similarities may be a sign of the same end goal.
What do you expect from somebody who is a member of the CFR?
Look at the Orange County Register's article on Purpose Driven Rwanda and how Rwanda's President is appreciative for the economic influence and business oppurtunities that Warren has brought to the Rwanda...It is more than just a fad.
And...Clinton/Carter are a little late to the table; Warren has been doing and saying, for years, what Clinton/Carter are just starting to do and say. Warren says that we need "more deeds and less creeds" and that for far too long the church has been just a "big mouth" and that he is not just for the "left wing or the right wing - he's for the whole bird" and etc.
Clinton/Carter, the emergent church and Purpose Driven all lead down the same path (away from a biblical Christ-centered Church towards a complete man-centered church).
Check out Warren's global P.E.A.C.E. Plan. The goals will make Clinton/Carter proud! And this plan can be implemented through any religion (Hindu, Muslim, non-Christian - Warren will work with them all to cure AIDS, cure poverty, cure spirtiual emptiness, and the other "global giants"...It doesn't need biblical, doctrinal, fundamental, gospel-based, real Christianity...Just give Warren a "man of peace" and he'll get the job done. The churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will be the P.E.A.C.E. Plan distribution centers (according to Warren).
www.pewforum.org/events/index.php?eventID=80 will take you to the Pew Forum's "Myths of the Modern Mega-Church". Warren talks about Christian fundamentalism as an enemy and also talks about his global P.E.A.C.E. Plan (which is really just a christianezed verzion of Peter Drucker's communitarianism).
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