The new state conventions...

[William Thornton]

...BP has a on the "new" Virginia convention's ten year anniversary.

Seems that the new conventions appear to have one thing in common - they give more to the cooperative program.

Is this the only way the entrenched baptist bureaucracies and their institutional inertia will be successfully battled, theopolitics aside?

[jerryl]

They don't necessarily 'give more' to the Cooperative Program, they just pass a bigger percentage of Cooperative Program money on to the SBC. We'd have to do some math on per capita giving to get an idea if they give more.

It's always been my understanding that what a church passes on to the state convention is Cooperative Program giving. The states decide how much to pass onto the national SBC.

The reason the new state conventions pass so much on to the SBC is simple. They're not doing much ministry at home.
jerrl

[William Thornton]

[Dave Roberts]

Part of the reality is that new conventions do not have children's homes, homes for the aging, hospitals, academies, colleges, collegiate ministries, or the things that will facilitate longer-term ministries. They devote most of their in-state attention to church planting. That is just one of the facts of life, whether the new conventions are conservative (VA & TX) or moderate (MO).

[William Thornton]

[Cathy]

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

[Chris]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Sandy]