If you haven't already, check out these two debates from the Jerry Johnson show that aired live from the Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio. The debate on Calvinism features Danny Akin and Mark Coppenger (interestingly enough, both Calvinists), and the debate on tongues is between Russell Moore and Dwight McKissic. Check it out here.
Also, I saw this picture on Denny Burk's blog and thought it was funny. As you may know, there's a lot of talk about the possibility of Mohler being nominated for the President of the SBC for 2008, thus making him President in 'o9 as well (since SBC presidents serve two terms). The idea is to have him as President when the SBC meets in Louisville for the 150th anniversary of Southern Seminary in 2009.
(By the way, we are averaging about 25 visits to this blog each day, 173 in the last week. The average visit is over three minutes long, so people are actually reading this thing. Everyone needs to know that they are welcome to leave a comment - not just members of the R&R Fellowship. R&R guys are the only ones that can post - and I hope they'll continue to post thoughtful content here more and more.)
JN
2 comments:
From what I heard, Mohler did not do a very good job of campaining during his seminary update at the convention. He made some folks mad by saying Southern will not only use the BFM in hiring professors.
That's true. You can hear watch his report at sbc.net. He does seem a bit angry - I've never seen him quite like it before. Nevertheless, I think his points in the report were well-taken, and were echoed by most all of the Seminary Presidents except maybe Danny Akin. The motion that was adopted clearly says that the BF&M is to be "a guide" to the trustees of the different SBC agencies - not a maximium statement of required beliefs.
That said, I have sympathy with Burleson and other SBCers who are upset that these trustees may be narrowing the parameters for hiring someone just a bit much - namely, exluding anyone who claims to speak in tongues.
I'll still vote for Mohler in '08.
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