Feb 21, 2012
Great Commission Baptists?
By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:29 AM
Travis Loller reports:
A panel for the Southern Baptist Convention recommended Monday that its leadership endorse a new, add-on description for the denomination - “Great Commission Baptists” - stopping short of a complete name change.
I think shedding the SBC's regional and related baggage is a good idea. Still, I get uncomfortable with names like the proposed one, since it suggests there are the “Great Commission Baptists” in the SBC and non-Great Commission Baptists everywhere else.
Maybe that's just me.
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It just highlights an us/them, rigid boundary, exclusionary paradigm. And, if pressed, I think they’d agree wih my assessment and place me outside the circle for believing otherwise.
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Yes, unfortunate name selections abound in religious organizations. I dare say the people in the SBC today have precious little in common with those who chose that name. It’s just too easy to come up with a label referencing a distinction too fleeting to be meaningful down the road.
On a side note, can you imagine what it feels like to have finally dissolved all previous reflexive internal hooks about being a part of that mess?
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Caedmon, hmm.
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Ed, it must feel quite good!