Tony: I would be curious to know the reasons this was a discouraging experience for you.

All that to say, it’s a convoluted thing, our afffectionate discontent toward the SBC.

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Terry

Convention-wise…I was very pleased with Sunday night and Monday morning. It was one of the best combinations of worship and heart-felt preaching that I have experienced in my dozen or so trips to the annual SBC. It’s true that expository preaching was lacking but I was pleased to hear the call to prayer and brokenness. We did the right thing with the church membership resolution. I’m not especially fond of the negative resolutions (planned parenthood, California Supreme Court, etc.) because I think that it continues that sterotype that Baptists are against everything. I much prefer positive expressions (life, marriage,etc). It is frustrating to me that not very much of substance occurs in the way of motions and resolutions. The SBC has protected herself from change by disallowing almost all attempts to reform. Almost everything of substance will be referred to an entity or committee for consideration.

I will continue to promote the concept of online voting by corresponding with the SBC Executive Board over the next year. I don’t expect much to happen however.

I skipped the Wednesday night session to help some friends load up a display in the exhibit hall. Circumstances moved in such a way that I was able to spend a great deal of time conversing with a new friend who is living in a homosexual relationship. I found it ironic that while the convention was debating whether or not to call for California Baptists to remove their kids from the public schools because of the homosexual influence, I was riding in a rented u-haul discussing Jesus with a young man struggling to find his identity. Thank you Jesus, that I now know what my purpose was in coming to Indy…

I appreciate your wonderful website that connects all of the SBC blogs on the SBCBloggosphere together!

May the Lord continue to use you to inform Southern Baptists via your website!!

Blessings,
chadwick

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the convention was enlightening and disappointing. be of good cheer. tom ascol’s motion carrying was proof that the convention can be moved.

the goal, starting today… is to move 2009 in the right direction.

let’s turn the course of the conference, for the cause of the cross.