We have been told repeatedly during the past few months that things are not working as they should in the Southern Baptist Convention. We need change. We need to replace the old way of doing things with the new. God is at work in a new way. New churches need to be started. “New” and “change” – words that often have no real meaning for most of us. “Make changes,” [we are told], but to do so by decreasing the funding for those who cannot pay for this change is ludicrous. In South Carolina, that is what we are being asked to do. I see no need for us to cease taking care of the orphan and the widow, for Scripture says we are to do just that.
I do, however, see the great need to spread the good news to the unbeliever. But there are those who tell us our very name is offensive to some – so much, in fact, that we need to change it. If we are seeking to bring the lost souls of the world into a saving knowledge [of Christ], we need to change our work, not our name. The world doesn’t need to know my name or the name of my fellowship, but the name of my Savior.
To do a good work by hampering the work of another equally good work seems to be just plain wrong. Can we please think of a different way to implement the new way the work will be accomplished without telling God he must have made a mistake these many years?
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