[RedMonqey]

SBC wants to the next “Church of England”

They are going after the “much admired” Episcopal numbers.

In other words a silly group not to be taken seriously.

[righttackle44]

In other words a silly group not to be taken seriously.

The real silliness here, sir, are you words. The Southern Baptist Convention does not speak for the individual churches that cooperate with the Convention, nor does it speak for the individual members who make up the local churches.

From time to time, the liberal faction of the Messengers (the delegates who are sent to the Convention by the churches) make a power grab, and then there is a scrap for a couple of years until the more conservative church members and churches are able to demonstrate the horror that the more liberal faction has foisted upon the Convention.

The Southern Baptist Convention is not monolithic. Mostly, the Convention is finally made up of the quiet church members who pray and want to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached--that is, Christ and Him crucified. They want to hear solid teaching and preaching, and they, for the most part, do not meddle in the politics of the liberal vs. conservative battles that go on, which are often poked into existence by the media and other liberal denominations who hate that the SBC is larger than their denominational body.

So before you go making absurd--REALLY absurd--statements such as you have, I'd suggest you get your facts together. Unless, of course, you're one of those independent Baptists whom God has appointed to be the Baptist conscience of the world.