{"id":817,"date":"2010-09-25T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2010-09-25T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:50:47","slug":"a-radical-makeover-florida-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"A Radical Makeover \u2013 Florida\u00a0Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The radical makeover of the Southern Baptist Convention continues to move faster than a starving alligator chasing down its next meal.\u00a0 With the release of their report and recommendations on September 23 at historic Lake Yale<\/a>, the “Imagine If Great Commission Resurgence Task Force,” appointed last year by Florida Baptist Convention President John Cross, appears poised to lead Florida Baptists to become the first Baptist State Convention under the GCR\u00a0to become a subsidiary of the national SBC.\u00a0 In June, just after the SBC in Orlando, I predicted to my brother-in-law, a Florida Baptist pastor, that\u00a0the Imagine If Task Force would recommend\u00a0a 50-50 split of CP funds.\u00a0 I just didn’t predict the four year timeframe.<\/p>\n

As a Florida native who was ordained as a deacon and licensed to the Gospel ministry at\u00a0First Baptist Church of Lake Placid, a church where my mother still actively serves, I am not at all\u00a0surprised at the recommendations that will be voted on at the Florida Baptist Convention’s\u00a0Annual Meeting in November.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I can’t wait to hear the rhetoric that will be used by the Imagine If\u00a0Task Force, especially when grass-roots Florida Baptists speak out against it.\u00a0 Oh, wait.\u00a0 I’ve heard it before — rebellious spies, skunks, liberals.\u00a0 Look for a repeat of Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether or not\u00a0grass-roots Florida Baptists approve or reject\u00a0the Task Force’s report will be a major signal in the coming state-by-state\u00a0battle\u00a0shaping up between the two competing philosophies in the SBC.\u00a0What are those competing philosophies?\u00a0 The one, which I subscribe to, is a bottom-up, grass-roots model where cooperation begins at the local and state levels and then goes upward.\u00a0 The other, which is the philosophy of many in the ruling class within the SBC, is one that is a top-down, corporate denominational approach that does not see any need for local Associations or State Conventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that sounds too harsh, then why\u00a0do so many, including Florida’s John Cross, who appointed the Imagine If Task Force, serve in churches that give so little to CP, the vehicle that we were assured by the GCRTF was the primary means of supporting the SBC?\u00a0 If your church is giving less than 1% to CP<\/a>, I’m not sure that most rank and file Southern Baptists would consider that primary!\u00a0 Do actions really speak louder than words?\u00a0 We shall see.\u00a0 I will have much more on these developments next week both here and at SBCVoices, where I will contribute a weekly blog post.\u00a0 If you think you understand the “historic 50-50 split” of CP\u00a0funds that the establishment in Florida and elsewhere keeps pushing for, you may be in for a\u00a0real surprise.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\u00a0 Until then, enjoy another great weekend of football.\u00a0 Go Gators!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The radical makeover of the Southern Baptist Convention continues to move faster than a starving alligator chasing down its next meal.\u00a0 With the release of their report and recommendations on September 23 at historic Lake Yale, the “Imagine If Great Commission Resurgence Task Force,” appointed last year by Florida Baptist Convention President John Cross, appears…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,24,37],"tags":[384,390,458,510,561,590,593,3393],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooperative-program","category-great-commission-resurgence","category-southern-baptist-convention","tag-first-baptist-church-lake-placid","tag-florida-baptist-convention","tag-great-commission-resurgence-task-force","tag-imagine-if-great-commission-resurgence-task-force","tag-john-cross","tag-lake-placid","tag-lake-yale","tag-southern-baptist-convention"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LP7G-db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}