Remember that most of our African-American ABC churches are also aligned with one or another of the National Baptist Conventions (Incorporated, Unincorporated or Progressive, or maybe Missionary in some cases), and those conventions give them a much closer tie than Euro-American ABCs outside the Border states tend to have to the South and the SBC. And Gregory was of course quintessentially SBC in the days when he was "running" Dallas FBC. Now I'm sure he's more a CBF type, if he was "quintessentially SBC" at this point he probably wouldn't be taking invitations from a "liberal, probably Socialist, maybe closet Islamic" outfit like Evergreen