Bruce--
At long last, somebody gets it!!!!
Our unique NC problem is the pumping of SEBTS graduates into the system. It is on overload!
The fundies have now taken over this state. CBF / Moderate folk just don't have the heart for the political battle required to have saved it. Now our only outlet for truth, The Biblical Recorder, is toast. YES--I am not kidding when I speak of the need to formally separate and tell it far and wide!
For years many smaller churches continued to call SEBTS student pastors in NC & VA, but had to learn in the school of hard knocks that they were sending little knights in shining armor with new Constitution and By-laws in hand to make that student the King-pastor.
If things were more clearly stated by CBFNC as to the options and the difference, I think much of this could have been avoided. VA has done the wise thng to split to a separate Stae Convention. Eastern NC is conservative, but not bent to any Preacher running their church as the King. When they make the "great mistake" because they are uninformed, it is a time of travail and sorrow they do not deserve.
If "ignorance is bliss," we have some of the most blissful Bapists anywhere in the South!