Conservative Post

I have grave concerns about the recent and final GCR Task Force Report. The biggest issue I have however, is that it is a shift to a top down hierarchy over churches rather than a bottom up cooperation of churches. When the sole decision for what gets funded comes from the national level and the Associational Missionaries are completely under the thumb of the National decision makers then what happens on the local level is determined by those who are not on the ground. There is no way the national control can be as effective. Add to that it is contrary to a cooperative and we move closer to a denomination.

I am disappointed that the use of the term “denomination” was used in the report to describe the convention. Considering that we are moving in that direction I have to ask if that is the intention of those who created this report. Until now the convention has been a cooperative of Baptist and autonomous churches that make decisions at the local level within the states to reach the lost. But with this proposal to change to a top down governance style in the convention and the use of the term “denomination” I have to wonder is moving toward a denomination the intent of the authors of the report. The Southern Baptist Convention has always been a cooperative not a denomination. When the secular press uses such terms I pass it off as ignorance. When our convention leaders uses such terms then it is not ignorance but decisive intent.

With the level of unpopularity this has received some of those on the task force have become quite defensive on a very immature level. It is unnecessary to suggest that any rejection of this final report means Southern Baptists are rejection the great commission. Such defensive tactics shows a clear problem with conscience.

I do not expect that this will pass at the convention in Orlando, but should it pass I have serious concerns that this will work to split the convention. I do not believe this will simply be accepted and everyone will move on. This GCR proposal reaches the same level of the recent health care laws that were crammed down the throats of Americans. Neither will be accepted quietly.

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