SoBapts working to organize a world-wide Baptist group under SBC control

[bobbieinok]

http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2006/05/southern-baptists-organizing-for.html

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Southern Baptists Organizing for Dominion in Europe

Key leaders of the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are preparing to meet with European Fundamentalist leaders in June at Oradea, Romania. Paige Patterson, O.S. Hawkins and Richard Land are rumored to be preparing to speak at what is being billed as a "Missions Conference" at Emanuel University in Oradea. Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was one of the architects of the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC. Hawkins is President of GuideStone Financial Resources the agency that manages 8.5 Billion dollars worth of pensions, annuities and trusts for Southern Baptist ministers and institutions. Land heads the SBC's Washington, D.C. based political action arm.

Organizing the conference for European Fundamentalists is Paul Negrut, a minister at Second Baptist Church of Oradea. Second Baptist Oradea, a European megachurch with several thousand members, is the largest Baptist church in Romania and the second largest Baptist church in Europe. Romania has the largest percentage of Baptists per capita of any country in Europe.

Negrut is serving his final year as the President of the Baptist Union (BU) of Romania. He has been a critic of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and a strong supporter of strengthening ties with the SBC. Last year, he unsuccessfully proposed that the Romanian BU should reconsider its links with the BWA after the SBC withdrew from BWA.

There is little doubt that the SBC is sending some of it's heavy-weights into Romania to attempt to weaken the BWA and organize a world-wide Baptist body under SBC control. Last summer Negrut organized a similar meeting between SBC leaders and European Fundamentalists in Warsaw, Poland but that meeting proved unproductive.

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July 6 update.

SBC Organizes in Europe to Extend Dominion

On May 31st I reported what sources in Europe disclosed to me about a conference that Southern Baptist leaders were organizing to weaken the Baptist World Alliance and create a world-wide body under SBC control.

Today, the Biblical Recorder published a report about the conference that SBC leaders held in Romania.

There's a world of difference between the missionary strategy and methods of Baptists in the Southern Baptist Convention and those in the Baptist World Alliance. Southern Baptists are exporting their takeover methods overseas.

The SBC's current modus operandi involves taking over both denominational politics and secular politics.

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In both articles there are links in the original.

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Author is a leader in the group that broke away from the SBC after the RW take-over.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. i really hope that their rapture comes and removes them from our world

it would be so much nicer here.

[LiberalPartisan]

2. A SoBap recently told me

I am not a Christian because I am a Catholic and all Catholics engage in idol worship.
I'm glad she cleared that up for me.

Skeptics think abount 6 people world-wide adhere to Dominionist teachings - they are sorely mistaken.

[Lars39]

3. The SB's EKG program(Empowering Kingdom Growth) bears watching.

I forage around on the SB site every once in a while.
An interesting article today was titled,'Leaders must stir passion for God’s Kingdom, Hemphill notes'

"At least 80 percent of evangelical American churches are plateaued or declining, Ken Hemphill said, noting that the only true church growth is occurring in Asia and Africa today, not in the United States or Western Europe."...more@http://www.sbc.net/


I have zero respect for Southern Baptist missionaries that lie to gain entrance to a country, and then remain there under false pretenses.

[bobbieinok]

4. under RW control, SBC has not increased its membershipRW take-over was

supposed to eliminate 'liberal' influence that made new conversions impossible.

Another interesting place to watch SBC events (from one who left) is

http://www.mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com