by Ed Edwards » Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:35 am
Wow! here I am 66 years old and still learning stuff. I was born the first time in a majority Southern Baptists (now Texas Baptists) county in the Panhandle of Texas. I got born the second time in 1952 in a majority Souther Baptist county in Western Oklahoma. I graduated from High School in 1961, guess what: a majority Southern Baptist county in the east part of Oklahoma, central portion. If I had of been rich enough I probably would have gone to a Southern Baptist College (OBU = Oklahoma's Best University, aka: Oklahoma Baptist Univerity). OBU is in a Southern Baptist county also. But my father was working class, so I had to go to a state College (now East Central University). j Of course, the biggest organization near the campus is the Baptist Student Union (BSU).
What I learned is there are Baptists in things NOT southern baptist?
Well, actually when I was about 32 years old, I found out the First Baptist Church of Conway Arkansas was Missionary Baptist , or something.
The most common response when you ask "What Baptist Denomination are you?" is "First Baptist". Now, in the town where I live, the Moderate First Baptist Church (you know, the one with the women Deacons) is both Southern Baptist and (my mind slips, some sort of 'moderate baptist"?) But the FBC of Norman had a nice Grief Group. I attened a couple of years after my first wife died - the weekly Grief Group, that is.